|
February 23, 2012, 6:05 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
Foxconn, Apple, and the Fair Labor Association Respond to ABC News' Exclusive Report — On Monday, ABC News' Bill Weir exclusively reported on the conditions inside Apple's main Chinese manufacturer — Foxconn. For the first time ever, Apple allowed a journalist onto its production line … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
How much does it cost to manufacture an iPhone? — An iPhone generates approximately $650 in revenue for Apple. This figure has remained fairly steady over time. Using deduction from overall margins, it's possible to estimate the gross margin on the product to be around 55%.
| James Pomfret / Reuters: |
| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
More:
iPhone, VatorNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, 9to5Mac, GigaOM and The TechBlock. Thanks:@zacharye
| Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: |
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley? — Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start my own fund. — Really? I didn't know that! — For the record, I'm not raising a fund. This article is NOT accurate. — But, it sure comes up in conversation a lot.
| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
More:
parislemon
| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights — President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. — The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation …
More:
Gizmodo, Gov 2.0, New York Times, The Pondering Primate, Ars Technica, Reuters, Associated Press, The Hill, Adweek and USA Today
Tweets: @dannysullivan and @ashk4n
| Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal: |
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Pinterest's uneasy relationship with copyright law: what happens next — Pinterest is unquestionably among today's hottest new startups — the social networking service lets users “pin” images they like on the web to boards they can share with friends and publish to the world at large.
More:
Digiday, 1001 Noisy Cameras, The Drum, Guardian, ITProPortal and Business Insider
| David Pogue / New York Times: |
State of the Art: OnLive Desktop Plus Puts Windows 7 on the iPad in Blazing Speed — You're probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I'm paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. — Your iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
More:
The Verge, Electronista, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, Engadget, T3 News and MacRumors
| Bob Brewin / Nextgov.com: |
Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy — The Air Force Special Operations Command canceled its planned acquisition of Apple iPad tablet computers last week, two days after receiving a query from Nextgov about the inclusion of Russian-developed security and documents reader software specified in procurement documents.| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
iPad + Office + Apple + Microsoft: Why It All Makes Sense — In case you missed the craziness this week, Microsoft appears to be making some Office apps for the iPad. Or maybe it's not. Or whatever. MG Siegler has a good wrapup of the nonsense here. — Office for the iPad makes total sense, though.
More:
parislemon, MacStories, Daring Fireball and Business Insider
| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Facebook's Top Cop: Joe Sullivan — Facebook chief of security Joe Sullivan, sitting in front of a display of the bad guys his team has taken down (Photo Credit:Timothy Archibald) — This story appears in the March 12, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. — If Facebook were a country … | Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired: |
Tomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About — In order for a technology to take off these days, it has to be simple. Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify — each can be summed up in a sentence or so and readily understood from the very first time you use it.
More:
Lifehacker
| Garett Sloane / New York Post: |
Google ready to launch pilot pay-TV program in Kansas City — Call him Larry the Cable Guy. — Google CEO Larry Page is ready to launch a pilot pay-TV program to rival Time Warner Cable in Kansas City, Mo., The Post has confirmed. — Last week, the Internet giant filed for a video franchise license … | William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair: |
Reed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall — Still bloodied by one of the worst self-inflicted corporate disasters in recent memory—last year's $12 billion wipeout—Netflix C.E.O. Reed Hastings remains adamant about his goal: moving from red envelopes to streaming video.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Dell Goes on Ultrabook Diet With Slimmed-Down Laptop — As 2012 rolls on, consumers shopping for a PC will be seeing more of the thin, light, quick-starting Windows laptops called ultrabooks. — Big names like Lenovo and Toshiba already have entered this new category, and on Tuesday … | Rahul Vohra / The Rapportive Blog: |
Rapportive Acquired By LinkedIn! — Hey there! This is Rahul from Rapportive. — Our vision is to make you brilliant with people. Not just good, not just effective, but actually brilliant. That's our dream. — Since we accidentally launched, we have relentlessly pursued this vision … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile USA Reports Huge Customer Defections, Says to Launch LTE in 2013 — Deutsche Telekom said on Thursday that T-Mobile USA will launch high-speed LTE service sometime next year. — The company is the last major U.S. carrier to announce LTE plans and it has been questioned whether … | Ian Lin / Bing: |
Make a Good Search Impression with Bing's Linked Pages — Whether it's an old friend, a former classmate or (ahem) yourself, searching for people is one of the most common things we do on the web. Last year, we took the first step to bring expanded search results of your Facebook friends into Bing … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
HP Q1 Revenue Down 7 Percent To $30B; Net Income Down 44 Percent, Software Sales Up 30 Percent — HP just reported mixed first quarter earnings. The company posted non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.92, down 32% from the prior-year period (GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.73, down 38% from the prior-year period).| Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat: |
“Facebook for scientists” ResearchGate raises a fresh round of funding — ResearchGate, a social network for scientists to share knowledge and research, announced Wednesday it has raised its second round of funding, led by Founders Fund partner and PayPal co-founder Luke Nosek.
More:
GigaOM, VatorNews and Venture Capital Dispatch
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iOS 5.0.1 bug bypasses security passcode to provide access to contacts and phone app — A new bug in Apple's iOS 5.0.1 software could allow unauthorized access to contacts and the calling features of an iPhone, bypassing passcode protection. That is the claim from iPhoneislam, which discovered the flaw this week.
More:
iMore, Hardware 2.0 Blog, BGR, Electronista, Gizmodo, PhoneArena and Neowin.net
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.
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.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat 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.
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.Featured Podcasts
Channels with Peter Kafka:
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Invest Like the Best:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
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:
Meta's Muse Revival, Frontier AI Under Threat, The Rise Of Dopamine Sites
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.
Great Chat:
Doomers at Dreamforce
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:05 AM ET, February 23, 2012.
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
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:John Koblin / New York Times:
Deadline:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View: |
More:
PhoneArena, The Verge, Tech-On! and Sammy Hub
| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
| Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald: |
| Kenneth Corbin / Computerworld: |
More:
The Register and Tech Daily Dose
| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
More:
Nielsen Wire and WebProNews
Earlier Picks
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
More:
TechEye, Computerworld, TechNewsDaily.com and Slashdot
| Emily Parkhurst / TechFlash: |
| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
| John Letzing / Digits: |
More:
eMarketer, Digiday, ClickZ, paidContent, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Social Media, MediaPost and All Facebook
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |