Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:55 PM ET, June 25, 2008

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant  —  Sometimes, software isn't so magical.  Even for Bill Gates.  —  For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
RELATED:
Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic  —  Analyzing IT program management failures with the perfect vision of hindsight often leads the observer through a senseless and convoluted maze of past decisions.  Studying the Byzantine and idiotic logic behind many IT failures, one wonders, “How did we get here from there?”
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:   Microsoft, the Walking Dead
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold delayed on AT&T until at least mid-August!  —  We know what you're thinking... but this is for reals!  We've just confirmed this now with two high-level sources: the Bold is actually delayed until August on AT&T. It seems like AT&T and RIM are still having software issues with battery life and overheating.
Jesusdiaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 2.0 Golden Master Could Hit this Friday  —  According to a sources inside the Cupertino's iPhone software development effort, it is “highly probable” that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will hit this Friday.  The final version could arrive two weeks before the introduction of the new iPhone 3G …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, I4U News and iSmashPhone
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Google's Vint Cerf, ‘Father of the Internet’: “Online Video Will Be Distributed in Download Mode”  —  Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the “father of the Internet,” says that the popularity and demand for online video will mean that the distribution will eventually be done …
RELATED:
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:   Vint Cerf: Video streaming to give way to downloading
Sundeep Tucker / Financial Times:
Virgin Mobile and SK to combine operations in the US  —  Virgin Mobile USA is to acquire the US mobile phone operation controlled by SK Telecom of South Korea, after each side decided to combine their struggling businesses to build scale in the fast-maturing market.
RELATED:
Arn / MacRumors:
Time of iPhone 3G Launch Remains Unclear  —  Unconfirmed reports claim that the U.S. iPhone launch will take place starting at 8am, July 11th at AT&T stores nationwide.  A screenshot posted to our forums claims to depict the actual email sent to AT&T managers.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Social network Multiply goes premium  —  Multiply, a social network that has done a fine job of flying under the radar since its 2005 launch, has announced a new paid-account program that focuses on media storage.  Called a “digital scrapbook,” this premium feature will cost $19.95 annually.
Discussion: Pulse 2.0 and The Social Times
RELATED:
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:   Multiply: The Social Network That Backs Up Your Media, Too
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Next New Networks Inks With Hulu, Yahoo, Metacafe  —  Next New Networks, the conglomerate of niche video channels that's best known as home of Obama Girl, has struck online video distribution deals with Yahoo, Hulu and Metacafe.  Yahoo (YHOO) and Metacafe will get access to all Next New Networks programming …
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Mashable!
Jason Perlow / Between the Lines:
I'm sticking with Windows XP  —  You've heard it all before — the bell tolls for Windows XP.  The governor isn't calling to give it a reprieve — Microsoft is officially declaring it end of life for system OEMs on June 30.  On April 14, 2009, mainstream support dies.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Farewell then, Symbian  —  Epoc's journey: from world-beater to basket case  —  The smart in smartphone disappeared  —  The smartphone wars once devoured a great deal of attention and energy, particularly during the long PR war that took place in the first four barren years …
Chris Anderson / Wired News:
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete  —  “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”  —  So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right.  But what choice did we have?  Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Starbucks (SBUX) Dumping CDs, iTunes Gift Cards (AAPL)  —  Starbucks, which has been scaling back its once-grand ambitions to turn itself into an entertainment hub, is about to shrink its plans yet again.  We hear that by September, the chain will have dumped almost all of its in-store music retail offerings.
Discussion: hypebot
Tech-On! : tech news:
E Ink: ‘E-newspapers’ to Go Commercial in late 2009  —  “In the field of electronic paper-based electronic newspapers, a verification test will start by the end of 2008, and an actual business will start in the second half of 2009.”  —  Ryosuke Kuwata, E Ink Corp's vice president in charge …
Discussion: Portfolio.com, TeleRead and Engadget
InfoWorld:
Yahoo fixes e-mail cross-site scripting flaw  —  Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability in its Web mail site that could allow a hacker to get access to a person's account.  —  The problem was in the way Yahoo's Web mail interacts with version 8.1.0.209 of its instant messaging (IM) desktop application …
Discussion: Zero Day and The Register
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 12:55 PM ET, June 25, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Airtable:
Meet Airtable ProductCentral  —  The unified solution for managing your entire product development process in the AI era.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho Forms for successful Black Friday sales  —  Black Friday is a retail frenzy that can significantly impact your bottom line.  To make the most of this shopping bonanza, you need a strategy that not only attracts customers …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
JAMA current issue:
CARING FOR THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT: Electromagnetic Interference …
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Nintendo rated as ‘least eco-friendly tech firm’ by Greenpeace
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
One open source interface to rule them
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Comcast's goal: Integrate the screens
Greenpeace:
How the companies line up  —  We first released our 'Guide …
John Mueller / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Get the audio and Q&As from our recent live chat
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
New iPhone Carries $173 BOM and Manufacturing Cost, According …
 Earlier Items: 
Microsoft Corporation:
Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0
Jennifer Leggio / Feeds:
Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?
Discussion: ZDNet and Forbes
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Kosmix Goes Horizontal
Discussion: Beet.TV
Devin Leonard / Fortune:
iPod Doctor makes house calls
Discussion: MacBlogz, Newlaunches.com, PSFK and Digg
Phil Manchester / The Register:
Eclipse will be watching you very closely
Discussion: eWeek and Z Trek
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
T-Mobile's home phone service goes nationwide
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Internet Provider Halts Plan to Track, Sell Users' Surfing Data
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Hidden Sex Scenes Draw Ho-Hum, Except From Lawyers
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Federal police in Brazil formally charge the alleged mastermind of the murders of UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in June 2022

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page