Techmeme: Oracle's Q3 falls short, revenue misses mark; Hardware systems tank again (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)

March 20, 2013, 11:40 PM

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Katherine Kuan / The Official Google Blog:

Google Keep—Save what's on your mind — Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Unfortunately, if you're like me you probably often discover …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google launches Evernote rival Keep for the Web, Android 4.0 and above — Google on Wednesday announced Google Keep, a note-taking service similar to Evernote, for both the Web and Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean) devices. You can try the service out now for yourself at Drive.Google.com/Keep.

More: Computerworld, Gizmodo, The Verge, Wired, Geek Beat Technology News, TechHive, TechCrunch and Ars Technica

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself — Google today launched Keep, an app that allows you to save things, clip stuff from the web, hoard notes and what not and put them all onto your Google Drive. Yup, you guessed it — it is an imitation to Evernote and many other such applications.

More: PandoDaily, NEWS.com.au, VentureBeat, SmoothSpan Blog and Betabeat

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Jessica Wohl / Reuters:

Walmart adds iPhone scan-and-checkout feature to 12 more markets — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters. — Walmart's “Scan & Go” …

More: CNET, MacRumors, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone Hacks, AllThingsD, everythingiCafe, App Advice, Examiner, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Mobile Marketing Watch, Electronista and iPhone Savior

Kellex / Droid Life:

Preview of New Google Play Version 4.0 — The Google Play store is an ever-evolving marketplace that has seen its fair share of changes throughout the last few years. It was once incredibly fussy and difficult to navigate while lacking features, but over time, has become much more polished …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint and MobileSyrup.com

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers — The Starbucks clerk was at a loss. I had just ordered a mocha Frappuccino and asked to pay with Square, a service that allows customers to purchase goods at the coffeehouse chain via their smartphone. “What?

More: GeekWire, TIME, SplatF and VentureBeat. Tweets: @bridgetcarey

Business Insider:

Amazon On The $99 Kindle Fire HD Tablet: 'It's Not Happening' — So much for all that! — Amazon is not doing a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, a company spokesperson tells us: “It's not happening—we are already at the lowest price points possible for that hardware.”

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, digitaltrends.com and TechHive

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Rumored To Be Working On A $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Oracle's Q3 falls short, revenue misses mark; Hardware systems tank again — Summary: Oracle's fiscal third quarter misses on many fronts as revenue comes in way short of expectations. Hardware systems sales continue to fall. — Oracle's third quarter earnings had a big buildup …

More: Computerworld, Yahoo! Finance, The Register, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch and Business Insider. Tweets: @levie

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

MacBook Pro with Retina display: Problems in every dimension — When Apple unveiled its first Retina MacBook Pro with the 15.4-inch model in June, it came with an all-new, slimmed down design, all-flash architecture, and its flagship Retina display with over 5 million pixels.

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendation Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman — Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by noted Microsoft alum (and Square and Pinterest investor) Fritz Lanman. — Pinterest tells TechCrunch …

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, GeekWire, Screenwerk and AllThingsD

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Visa CEO calls digital wallet fee on PayPal “appropriate” — (Reuters) - Visa Inc Chief Executive Charlie Scharf suggested on Wednesday that the payment network may impose a fee on digital wallet operators like PayPal, following rival MasterCard Inc. — MasterCard said earlier this year …

More: The Verge and PhoneArena

Kevin Allocca / YouTube Trends:

YouTube Searches Now on Google Trends — Here's a trivia question: Based on YouTube searches, what was the top trending animal on YouTube this month in the United States? It's not what you might think... Yes, goats. (If you missed this one and want to know more about how exactly screaming goats became …

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, Google Operating System, GigaOM, 9to5Google, Engadget, BuzzFeed and Search Engine Land

Mark Wilson / Co.Design:

NYC Subways Deploy A Touch-Screen Network, Complete With Apps — Not so long ago, we featured a radical proposal for New York City's payphones. The criticism we sensed was that this networked, touch-screen system—equipped with cameras and Wi-Fi—was too too sci-fi for a city of today.

More: Betabeat, Gizmodo, TechHive and The Verge

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

New iPhone lock screen bypass bug found on iOS 6.1.3, gives access to contacts and photos — Another iPhone lock screen bypass bug has been discovered and this one affects the latest version of iOS: 6.1.3. This version was just released and contained a fix for vulnerabilities that allowed users …

More: Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, iHackintosh, iMore and CNET

Nielsen:

New Study Confirms Correlation Between Twitter and TV Ratings — U.S. TV viewers are taking to Twitter to talk about TV, and the digital chatter is building steam. According to SocialGuide, 32 million unique people in the U.S. Tweeted about TV in 2012. That's quite the confab, but what does it all really mean for the TV industry?

More: The Next Web, Forbes, Beet.TV and GeekWire. See also Mediagazer

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

After getting booted from the Google Play store, Adblock Plus releases new Android app with automatic updates — Google recently started removing several ad-blocking applications from its mobile app marketplace, Google Play, claiming that they violate part (section 4.4) of its Developer Distribution Agreement.

More: Engadget, Examiner, Lifehacker, WebProNews, Geek.com, PhoneArena and GadgeTell. Tweets: @adblockplus

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Blackstone Said to Approach Hurd About Running Dell After Buyout — Blackstone Group LP, which is considering a bid for Dell Inc. (DELL), has approached Oracle Corp. President Mark Hurd about running the computer maker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

More: Fortune, CNET, ZDNet, bizjournals and Fox Business

Dennis Fisher / threatpost:

Researchers Uncover ‘TeamSpy’ Attack Campaign Against Government, Research Targets — Researchers have uncovered a long-term cyber-espionage campaign that used a combination of legitimate software packages and commodity malware tools to target a variety of heavy industry, government intelligence agencies and political activists.

More: CrySyS Blog, Securelist / Blog, Ars Technica and SecurityWeek

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Untangles Its Overgrown Org Chart — Twitter isn't such a little bird anymore. The company has ballooned in a short time, adding more than 1,000 employees to its ranks in the span of just one year. — And like any company going through a growth spurt, Twitter's organizational structure has become complicated.

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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …

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