Techmeme: HTC One (M8) review: a gorgeous, fast, long-lasting phone with a weak, inconsistent camera (David Pierce/The Verge)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

March 25, 2014, 3:50 PM

Top News

David Pierce / The Verge:

HTC One (M8) review: a gorgeous, fast, long-lasting phone with a weak, inconsistent camera — The new HTC One review — The best or nothing — My first car was a 1997 Saturn SL1, a tiny black box with headlights that were too close together and a 0-60 time in the neighborhood of three and a half hours.

More: Wall Street Journal, Android Central, BGR, Re/code, Engadget, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, LAPTOP Magazine, NEWS.com.au, ZDNet, Wired, CNET, AndroidHeadlines.com and PhoneArena

Tweets: @mattlynley and @reckless

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

HTC announces the new One with depth-sensing camera and larger screen — The “all new” HTC One has been one of the worst kept secrets of 2014, but today it's a secret no more. The Taiwanese manufacturer has taken the wraps off its latest flagship and fans of last years model (count us among them) won't be disappointed.

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

The new HTC One is available in Google Play and Developer editions

More: The Next Web, Guardian, LAPTOP Magazine, WebProNews and Droid Life

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Fitbit Partnership With HTC Gives It A Leg Up In The Fitness Tracking Space

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Verizon stores offer HTC One M8 immediately, others start online orders

More: Verizon Wireless, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News and Phones Review

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

HTC adds key Sense apps to Play Store to make updating easier

More: BGR, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.'s Bulk Data Collection — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that — if approved by Congress …

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

Bill Would Remove Phone Database From NSA

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, PandoDaily and InfoWorld

Rob Wile / Business Insider:

IRS: Bitcoin Is Property [FULL RELEASE] — The IRS has ruled Bitcoin should be treated as property, not as currency, for tax purposes. — The agency says anyone who holds the currency will have to calculate its value from the date it was received to determine whether a gain or loss was realized, and report the result.

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Gizmodo, USA Today, Reuters, Associated Press, CNBC and CryptoCoinsNews

Tweets: @hblodget, @ryanjtracy, @kevinroose and @felixsalmon

Bloomberg:

Bitcoin Is Property Not Currency in Tax System, IRS Says — The U.S. government will treat Bitcoin as property for tax purposes, applying rules it uses to govern stocks and barter transactions, the Internal Revenue Service said in its first substantive ruling on the issue.

More: NPR. Tweets: @adrianchen

Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public — The following post is from Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and managing director, Microsoft Research. — On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows.

More: Ars Technica, GeekWire, Computer History Museum, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web and Engadget

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple Testing Related Search Suggestions On The App Store — As first noted by developer Olga Osadcha, Apple is testing a related search suggestion feature on the App Store, which started rolling out earlier today for iPhone users on iOS 7. — The new menu, a scrollable bar with suggestions …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, PandoDaily, iMore, MacRumors, Macworld, I4U News, Business Insider, Engadget, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, iPhone Hacks, App Advice and The Next Web

Tweets: @oosadcha and @tapbot_paul

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Announces Massive Price Drops For Its Cloud Computing Services And Storage, Introduces Sustained-Use Discounts — At its Cloud Platform event in San Francisco today, Google announced a number of massive price drops for virtually all of its cloud-computing services.

More: Ars Technica, New York Times, TechCrunch, GeekWire, 9to5Google, PC World, CITEworld, VentureBeat, The Register, Forbes, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Wired, Gigaom, Google Developers Blog and Forrester Blogs. Tweets: @sampullara

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Sony won't use Android Wear, will stick with Smartwatch — The head of Sony Mobile's US arm also tells CNET that sales of its Xperia Z1s has exceeded expectations at T-Mobile. — Sony's SmartWatch 2. — Sarah Tew/CNET — ATLANTA—Sony will continue to strike its own path when it comes to its wearable products.

More: TechCrunch, TechHive, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, I4U News, Android Central, Ubergizmo, DailyTech, Electronista, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, The Verge, Xperia Blog, MobileBurn.com and Mashable

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia unveils next-generation graphics processor with 3D memory — Above: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang with a Pascal chip — Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled his company's latest graphics-processor architecture, code-named Pascal, that will put a “supercomputer in the space of two credit cards.”

More: PC World, Engadget, The Next Web, NVIDIA, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Engadget, NVIDIA, ExtremeTech, Forbes, CNET and SlashGear

Phil Savage / PC Gamer:

Nvidia announce GeForce GTX Titan Z, brings 12GB VRAM for $3,000

More: NVIDIA, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Tech Report, NVIDIA and Kotaku

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Cathy Edwards, Co-Founder Of Chomp, Is Leaving Apple On April 11 — A notable personnel departure is coming up in Cupertino: Cathy Edwards, the co-founder and CTO of app search and discovery platform Chomp, is leaving Apple on April 11, TechCrunch has learned.

More: MacRumors and 9to5Mac

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Spotify Pitches College Kids: Half Off Subscriptions While You're in School — Streaming music services are getting more popular. How much more popular would they be if they were cheaper? — Spotify will start finding out today. The subscription music company is cutting the price …

More: The Next Web, BetaNews, The Technology Chronicles, VatorNews, The Verge, Cult of Mac, AnandTech, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, TechHive, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Gigaom, App Advice, TechSpot, CNET, Engadget, Mashable and Associated Press

Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:

Waze co-founder Uri Levine, declining to join Google, launches finance-planning startup FeeX — Waze Co-Founder Skips Google to Try Startup World Again — Uri Levine still has the entrepreneurial bug. After selling map-software provider Waze to Google for $1.1 billion last June …

More: Business Insider, Digital Journal, American Banker and VentureBeat

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

E-book price fixing settlements land in Amazon customers' inboxes — There may be still more money to come from other e-book retailers. — As of Tuesday morning, Amazon has begun issuing account credits to Kindle book buyers as a result of legal settlements with book publishers including Harper Collins …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, The Switch, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Gigaom, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Engadget, TechHive, iMore, CIO Blogs, ReadWrite, Good E-Reader, Mashable and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:

Gmail Promotions Tab Gets Visual Punch: Google Testing Image-Driven Grid View — It's like Pinterest for your inbox. Today, the Visual Web is coming to email with Google's latest test of a grid view in the Gmail Promotions tab. The grid presents marketing emails in a “pin-like” …

More: Gmail Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Next Web, The Verge, Lifehacker and WebProNews

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Hortonworks raises $100M to scale its Hadoop business — Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has raised $100 million in a new round of venture capital led by BlackRock and Passport Capital. The company's existing investors — Dragoneer, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Index Ventures and Yahoo — also participated in the latest round.

More: Hortonworks, Data Center Knowledge, StrictlyVC, SiliconANGLE, Re/code, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Bloomberg and PE Hub Blog

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Facebook's Open Compute guru Frank Frankovsky leaves to build optical storage startup — Frank Frankovsky, Facebook's vice president of hardware design and supply chain optimization, who helped oversee the development and growth of the company's custom server effort, has left …

More: Frank Frankovsky, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, Re/code, Cisco Blog and Open Compute Project

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Big-Data Startup RelateIQ Raises Another $40 Million — Big data continues wooing big money. — RelateIQ Inc., a relationship management software startup, has raised $40 million in fresh capital at a valuation of $245 million. The round, led by Redpoint Ventures also includes several new investors …

More: TechCrunch

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Instagram Testing Facebook Places Integration To Replace Foursquare — Popular photo-sharing app Instagram is testing integration with Facebook Places, Facebook's venue database. Facebook, of course, owns Instagram. The experiment signals that Instagram may eventually wean itself off …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @nikf and @joshconstine. Thanks:@shlivy

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google is reportedly building new Android business features: APIs, enterprise apps, data encryption, and more — As part of Google's development of the next Android version, the company is working on developing business-specific features to take on leader BlackBerry as well as newcomers Apple and Samsung.

More: The Information and eWeek

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.

Equals:

Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.

Zoho:

Stay audit-ready with email journaling in Zoho Mail — Emails continue to be the hotspot of business activity. Decisions, approvals, conversations, obligatory birthday wishes, and everything in between passes through it.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Training Data:

Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.

Subscribe to Training Data.

Invest Like the Best:

John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars

The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.

Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.

Grit:

The Sales Framework Every Founder Needs | Mark Roberge

Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.

Subscribe to Grit.

Lenny's Podcast:

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Big Technology Podcast:

OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta's AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.

Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:50 PM ET, March 25, 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.