Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:25 AM ET, June 15, 2009

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts  —  Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts.  The service, which has more than 5 million registered users will retain its free version, however there are now usage limitations …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability  —  Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral, is a seriously heavyweight product.  When it relaunched in March, just a couple of months ago, we gave Google Voice a glowing review.  —  Once you've jumped in head first to the product it will straighten out your phone life forever.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Latest Geek Stuff
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?  —  Microsoft may have developed a contender that threatens Google's Web search dominance.  —  In a story headlined “Fear grips Google,” the New York Post reports that the launch of Microsoft's Bing search engine has so upset Google co-founder Sergey Brin …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com, Thanks:bobcaswell
RELATED:
James Doran / New York Post:
FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE  —  SOURCES: SERGEY ORDERS BING STUDY  —  You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google.  —  But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades …
JBC / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video  —  SINGAPORE - The all new Nokia E72 boasts a host of new features including optical scrolling and a five-megapixel camera.  Building on the success of the E71, the E72 takes the very best of Nokia's most successful QWERTY device and makes it even better.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption  —  Remember when the corporate Web site consisted of mostly static Web pages: a home page, a handful of pages about the company's products or services and a place to learn more about the management team, contact sales or even find hours and directions?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About That New CrunchPad Video  —  It seems like I've heard that title somewhere before.  Oh yeah, almost exactly.  So this time a guest at our party last week decided to corner Chandra Rathakrishnan, the CEO of our CrunchPad partner Fusion Garage, and talk him into doing this ridiculous “unboxing” of the CrunchPad.
Arn / MacRumors:
13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface  —  As first described in our forums, Apple seems to have quietly downgraded the SATA Interface from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit speeds in some of the new MacBook Pros introduced last week.  Readers are reporting that both the new 13" and 15" …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Computerworld Blogs
BBC:
Internet brings events in Iran to life  —  Police on motorbikes charge protesters (Courtesy Corriere della Sera TV) - events like these are being filmed on mobile phones and uploaded online  —  All over the world people are monitoring unfolding events in Iran via the internet …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. to Help Clients Fight Cost and Complexity  —  In 2000, the Linux operating system was a hot technology, but it had not spread much beyond scientists, researchers and computer programmers.  Then I.B.M. declared that it would back Linux with investment, research and marketing …
Discussion: GigaOM and TheStreet.com
Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:
Firefox.next peek: profiling yourself  —  One of the features planned for the next version of Firefox (tentatively named Firefox 3.6, but most accurately referred as Firefox.next) is about:me, a specially crafted web page that will let you see your browsing habits profile including most visited sites …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Starts Seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L14)  —  It seems there will be at least one more Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) update before we see Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) arrive this fall.  Apple has begun seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L14) to Mac developers.  —  The new version of Mac OS X 10.5.8 offers …
Discussion: Softpedia News and Edible Apple
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 4:25 AM ET, June 15, 2009.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
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:
Getting things done (GTD): Streamlining productivity  —  Getting Things Done (GTD) is more than just a productivity method; it's a framework designed to help you regain control of your workload, reduce stress, and allow you to focus on what truly matters.
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: 
Christopher Mack / Inside Social Games:
2009 Q1 Virtual Goods Investments Top $69 Million
Discussion: CNET News, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Greasemonkey script decodes an impressive list of TinyURLs
New York Times:
The Tweet Smell of Success
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HP funds 60 researchers at 46 universities
Discussion: Digits
Tomi T Ahonen / Communities Dominate Brands:
A Tale of Two Smartphones: US vs Rest of World compared
Cade Metz / The Register:
Jimbo Wales: No one can make money from Wikipedia...
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Secret war on web crooks revealed
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Pre gets NES emulation in Linux; our thumbs are in for a world of hurt
Jim Cowie / CircleID:
A Closer Look at Iran's State of Internet, Strange Transit Changes …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing
Discussion: Mashable! and TheNextWeb.com
Conrad De Aennle / New York Times:
In Simulation Work, the Demand Is Real
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Browsers Cache YouTube Videos
Discussion: ithinkdifferent
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
For TechCrunch, Twitter = Traffic (A Statistical Breakdown)
Discussion: Harry Chen's Roving Mind and digg.com, Thanks:bobcaswell
Christopher Dawson / ZDNet:
Google could take a lesson from Bing on porn
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:blogfisher
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Ryan Grim / Drop Site News:
An investigation finds that OCCRP, which works with major newspapers on scoops like the Panama Papers, is primarily bankrolled by the US and its Western allies

Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
Some reporters say they are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky, as Elon Musk turns X into an increasingly difficult place for journalists

John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount co-CEO Chris McCarthy aims to revitalize Showtime by using successful formulas like Yellowstone from Paramount+ and investing in high-profile projects

 
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