|
March 23, 2013, 4:55 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Apple brings password page back online after fixing security expoit — Earlier today Apple took down its iForgot page after we reported that it was possible to reset a user password with nothing more than an email address and date of birth. Apple has now brought the site back online …
More:
iMore, The Register, TUAW, TodaysiPhone.com and iDownloadBlog.com
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
More:
The Verge, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, The Register, iMore, AppleInsider, BGR, 9to5Mac, CNET, Naked Security, TUAW, Dennis Fisher, POPSUGAR, TodaysiPhone.com, ReadWrite, The Loop, T3 News, SiliconANGLE, Los Angeles Times, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, PadGadget, Redmond Pie, digitaltrends.com, DailyTech, MacNN, TechSpot, Neowin, Apple, SC Magazine, Lifehacker, VentureBeat, Geek Beat Technology News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, Macworld, The Next Web, The H Security, SecurityWeek, Betabeat, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, ZDNet, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, Electronista, App Advice, Mashable, iClarified, LAPTOP Magazine, nbcnews.com, Softpedia News, Securosis Highlights, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, The Mac Security Blog, PC Magazine and GigaOM
Tweets: @reckless and @chriswelch
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft expected to update its full suite of built-in Windows 8 apps — Summary: Microsoft appears ready to roll out the set of expected updates to its full set of core, Microsoft-developed Windows 8 applications, as rumored earlier this month. — It looks like Microsoft is …
More:
SuperSite for Windows, Engadget, WinBeta, Neowin and Softpedia News
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Cleared of Infringing Google Patents With Xbox — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video-gaming system doesn't violate the patent rights of Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit, a U.S. trade judge said today. — In a one-paragraph notice, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge David Shaw sided with Microsoft in the case.
More:
The Next Web, Engadget, CNET, Reuters, bizjournals, PhoneArena, ZDNet, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Polygon, Electronista and SlashGear
| Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Deaf, Blind Sue Over Web Shopping — Advocates for Disabled Say Netflix, Target Are Legally Obligated to Make Sites Easier to Navigate — Commerce has moved online. Now, the disability lawsuits are following. — Advocates for disabled Americans have declared that companies … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
‘Lemme Tweet That For You’ generates fake tweets that look (almost) just like real ones — Despite our suspicion of Photoshopping and fakery, the screencapped tweet has become a way to preserve embarrassing or noteworthy moments in case they're deleted. But as “Lemme Tweet That For You” …
More:
Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, AllThingsD, The Huffington Post, AllTwitter and Brian Solis
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development — Just how important is mobile to Facebook? According to Facebook product manager Josh Williams, the former CEO of Gowalla, the social network's push toward mobility is crucial enough to its strategy to turn off Facebook's website internally.
More:
WebProNews and AllFacebook
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Inside ‘Apple Anonymous’: The Secret Society of Apple's Retail Army — Walk into any one of Apple's more than 400 retail stores across the globe and you will receive customer service that is typically unmatched in the consumer electronics industry. The experience that an Apple Store customer receives … | Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtilt Lands $12M From Sean Parker, Andreessen & More; Now Acquiring To Expand Into Mobile — After graduating from Y Combinator, Crowdtilt launched in February of last year to become “the Kickstarter for any group.” More specifically, the startup has been on a mission … Thanks:@loyalelectron
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Barnes & Noble is prepared to give you a free e-reader if it means you'll buy the NOOK HD+ tablet — Barnes & Noble is so desperate to sell its flagship NOOK HD+ tablet, that it's now prepared to throw in a NOOK Simple Touch e-reader for free. — The company, which is known for its chain … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft defends Windows RT, fails to answer criticisms — Microsoft is facing growing criticism over its Windows RT operating system. Performance issues with the OS were apparent from the very first Microsoft shipment of the ARM-based Surface RT hardware.
More:
CNET, GeekWire, Business Insider, BGR, Computerworld, CITEworld, SuperSite for Windows, PandoDaily and Neowin
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Posthaven Launches In Public Beta, Has Saved 850K Posts Since Posterous Announced Its Shutdown Date Of April 30th — Once Twitter acquired Posterous, we knew that it was going to shut down at some point, as there was no way that the micro-blogging service would support a fully featured alternative platform.Thanks:@drew
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Elop throws an iPhone on Finnish TV, refuses to answer Lumia 928 questions — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop faced some tough questions from a Finnish TV presenter this week, focusing on the upcoming Lumia 928 handset. In a show aired on commercial TV station MTV3 in Finland …
More:
WMPoweruser, Digits, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNET, 9to5Mac, Wired, ValueWalk, Windows Phone Central, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer, Neowin, TodaysiPhone.com and PhoneArena
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Stay alert: Zoho Cliq keeps you in the Checkout loop — Payment pages are becoming increasingly significant for various organizations. For instance, consider an NGO committed to helping those in need.
Stay alert: Zoho Cliq keeps you in the Checkout loop — Payment pages are becoming increasingly significant for various organizations. For instance, consider an NGO committed to helping those in need.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
How to Cultivate Everyday Dharma, Suneel Gupta (#54)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Tue. 04/23 - Microsoft's Own LLMs and Perplexity's Big Raise
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:55 AM ET, March 23, 2013.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Amy Graff / SFGATE:Elle Griffin / The Elysian:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
More:
Bloomberg, BGR, CNET, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, DailyTech, Sammy Hub and Electronista
| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
NYT Bits, BGR, Digits and AllThingsD
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
More:
Reuters, The Verge, digitaltrends.com and Betabeat
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
More:
TechCrunch, The Verge, Neowin, ABCNEWS and PhoneArena
Earlier Picks
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
More:
Financial Times, The Korea Times, The Atlantic Wire, TechCrunch, The Loop, Mashable!, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Business Insider, MacRumors and Android Beat. Thanks:@bogdan247
| Jack Clark / The Register: |
More:
BBC, Canonical, ZDNet, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, ExtremeTech, CNET, Geek.com, SiliconANGLE, TG Daily, Softpedia News, The Verge, OSDir.com and dailywireless.org
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
More:
GigaOM and dailywireless.org
| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |