|
January 7, 2014, 3:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Apple: |
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013 — Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.
More:
Businessweek, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, GeekWire, InfoWorld, Techvibes Global News, Telegraph, Associated Press, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Wired, PadGadget, Fortune, Marketing Land, Ars Technica, Forbes, Guardian, BetaNews, ZDNet, Inquirer, iMore, Re/code, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, MacStories, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, iPhone, WebProNews, MacRumors, SlashGear, The Next Web, Electronista, The Mac Observer, App Advice and Mashable
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
More:
9to5Mac, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Softpedia News and BGR
| Jelly: |
Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks” — Introducing Jelly — Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …
More:
The Next Web, ZDNet, Re/code, CNET, VentureBeat, USA Today, Gigaom, Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget and Valleywag
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @troutgirl, @joshelman, @mikeisaac, @mat, @jack, @benedictevans, @caseynewton, @fredericl, @finkel, @danprimack and @biz
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Jelly, Biz Stone's New Q&A Platform, Uses Images To Find Answers — Jelly, a new question-and-answer platform from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, is coming out of stealth today. The app, available on both iOS and Android worldwide, will go head-to-head with the likes of Quora and ChaCha … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same. — Washington Post reporters called …
More:
SiliconBeat and The Verge. Tweets: @csoghoian, @kashhill, @antderosa, @tobie, @stevenlevy and @pmarca
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones — The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games to PS4 …
More:
PlayStation.Blog, Engadget, The Verge, Inquirer, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, BGR, The Next Web, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Electronista, Giant Bomb and Polygon. Tweets: @patrickklepek
| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year — Sony wants to launch its own online TV service with a cloud DVR and live TV feeds. The service will scheduled to go into testing in the U.S. later this year. — Not discouraged by Intel's failure to launch …
More:
BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge and Engadget
| Mark Mazzetti / New York Times: |
Anonymous burglars who exposed FBI's spying program in 1971 come forward for the first time — Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows — Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company — Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, who has led the company since … | Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Breakdown in progress: Fab narrows its European business down to only selling custom-made furniture — Big changes appear to continue to be afoot at highly valued U.S. e-commerce company Fab, which has recently been in the news pretty much exclusively when something negative happens …
More:
The Next Web, Valleywag, Mashable and Business Insider
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
More:
Betashop Quarterly and The Verge
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore” — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now. — On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was throwing for its developers at the Palms Hotel.
More:
CNET, GeekWire, GeekWire, Betabeat, The Verge, BGR, Droid Life, iMore, Gigaom, BuzzFeed, The Daily Beast, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, 9to5Google, TmoNews, Phandroid, VentureBeat, The Switch and iClarified
Tweets: @rogerwcheng and @inafried
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Intel's Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card, runs Linux, has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth modules — Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card — Four months ago, Intel unveiled its Quark SoC at IDF. Today at CES 2014, company CEO Brian Krzanich wants …
More:
The Verge, NYT Bits, Re/code, The Next Web, Mercury News, Geeky Gadgets, IntoMobile, The Register and The Next Web. Tweets: @zyx2k
| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
More:
Intel, Engadget, Bloomberg, The Verge, TechCrunch, Guardian and The Register
| Ina Fassbender / Reuters: |
China suspends ban on sale of foreign video game consoles — (Reuters) - (Adds context, size of China's video game market, company comments) — China's State Council said it has temporarily lifted a ban on selling foreign video game consoles, paving the way for firms like Sony Corp … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces McAfee brand name will be replaced by Intel Security — At CES 2014 today, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the McAfee brand name will be phased out and replaced by “Intel Security,” which will identify Intel products and services in the security segment.
More:
SiliconBeat, eWeek, VentureBeat, CNET, WebProNews, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Graham Cluley and ZDNet
| Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
More:
BBC, eWeek, CNNMoney.com, Digital Trends, The Independent and BetaNews
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Oracle buys Corente, pushes into networking more — Summary: Corente will add wide area networking virtualization technology to Oracle's red stack. — Oracle has acquired Corente, which provides software defined networking applications for networks. The move gives Oracle another piece of its networking puzzle.
More:
Gigaom and VentureBeat
| Emerging Technology From the arXiv: |
Google identifies house numbers in Street View using a neural network for image recognition — How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View — Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that's just as good as human operators.| Steven Sinofsky / Re/code: |
The Four Stages of Disruption — Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics. While I was speaking with some entrepreneurs recently on the topic, the question kept coming up … | Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor — Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset. — CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony's latest product: a virtual reality headset.
More:
The Verge, VG247 and NBC Bay Area
| Jeff Chu / Fast Company: |
Can Apple's Angela Ahrendts Spark A Retail Revolution? — When the Burberry CEO takes over as Apple's retail chief this spring, she'll arrive with a sterling track record and an open, collaborative spirit that's sure to shake things up in the executive ranks.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Cyanogen will partner with OnePlus on its debut phone, the ‘OnePlus One’ — Ex-Oppo exec Pete Lau has just announced that his new company OnePlus will partner with Cyanogen on its first smartphone, which will be called the “OnePlus One.” He and Cyanogen's Steve Kondik announced … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Vimeo speeds its online videos, goes HTML5 by default — Vimeo has sped up its video-streaming technology and made the shift from Flash-powered video to HTML5 by default, the company said Tuesday. — The new player software improves performance, social links, and post-production capabilities …
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
TiVo Moves Storage Of TV Shows Into The Cloud With New Network DVR Service — DVR manufacturer TiVo has spent most of the last 15 years building hardware that would allow consumers to record their favorite TV shows and watch them later. Now the company is working toward building products … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Android on Windows gets another supporter in AMD — It's not just Intel — Last week, we told you about Intel's plans to join Windows and Android at the hip, possibly launching a new brand of computer at this year's Consumer Electronics Show that can run both operating systems simultaneously.
More:
The Verge, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, VentureBeat, TechEye, Engadget, Tech in Asia, Inquirer, GeekWire and The Seattle Times. Thanks:@johnnotjon
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Gartner: 2.5B PCs, Tablets And Mobiles Will Be Shipped In 2014, 1.1B Of Them On Android — As the worlds of communication and technology increasingly become mobile-first, the traditional desktop PC continues to go the way of the dodo bird. The analysts at Gartner are today publishing …
More:
Gartner, BBC, SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, CNET, Digits, Reuters, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, BetaNews, PhoneArena, Reuters, AndroidHeadlines.com and NYT Bits. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Joe Ryan / Newsday: |
Verint to acquire KANA Software for $514 million — Verint Systems Inc., one of Long Island's largest and fastest-growing software companies, has reached an agreement to buy a Silicon Valley competitor for $514 million. — The pending purchase of KANA Software Inc. from private equity firm Accel-KKR marks …
More:
Wall Street Journal, Globes Online and Associated Press
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:
Mon. 04/22 - TikTok Back On The Chopping Block?
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 3:00 PM ET, January 7, 2014.
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
Tariq Panja / New York Times:Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Ian Youngs / BBC:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
More:
Schneier on Security, ZDNet, Computerworld, The Register and Inquirer
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
More:
BGR, IntoMobile, Engadget and TechCrunch
| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
More:
Forbes, NEWS.com.au and Gigaom
Earlier Picks
| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
More:
Washington Post and Beyond Search
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Tweets: @evanspiegel, @evanspiegel, @fmanjoo, @evelynrusli, @evanspiegel and @dmac1
| Michael Brown / PC World: |
More:
BGR, CNET, CNET, BetaNews, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge and Liliputing
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
More:
Technabob, Electronista and Belkin USA Site
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
More:
Polygon, The Next Web, Engadget, Inquirer, VG247, Ars Technica, Kotaku, MCV: Home Stream, ITworld.com, BGR, Polygon, Kotaku, VentureBeat, VG247, Electronista, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and SlashGear
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
More:
ReadWrite, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, BGR, WebProNews, TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, Electronista and Inquirer. Tweets: @verge