|
October 26, 2012, 4:10 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Apple: |
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — 26.9 Million iPhones Sold; Record Fourth Quarter Revenue and Profit — Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common Share — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012.
More:
Slate, MacStories, ZDNet, MediaNama, MacRumors, CNET, Forbes, IntoMobile, DailyTech, MobileSyrup.com, VatorNews, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Techie Buzz, TechSpot, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Register, HotHardware.com News, Ars Technica, PadGadget, SplatF, Wired, Inside Mobile Apps, Marketing Land, everythingiCafe, SeekingAlpha.com, App Advice, Know Your Cell, MobileBurn.com, iClarified, Business Insider and MacNN. Tweets: @drbarnard
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Tim Cook: ‘we would not make’ 7-inch tablet, iPad mini in ‘a whole different league’ — Apple CEO addresses Steve Jobs' criticism of 7-inch tablets — Those who have been paying attention to Apple over the years remembered one thing when the company revealed the iPad mini earlier this week …
More:
Forbes, CNET, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
| Alex Heath / Cult of Mac: |
Tim Cook: Microsoft Surface Is Confusing Like A “Car That Flies And Floats” — Apple CEO TIm Cook briefly touched on Microsoft's new Surface tablet during his company's earnings call today. When asked about the Surface, Cook admitted that he hasn't played with it yet, but it looks like “a compromised, confusing product.”
More:
GeekWire, The Next Web, CITEworld, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Mashable!, VentureBeat, The Verge, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
Tweets: @thematthewkeys, @tomwarren and @karaswisher
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
Macgasm
| Microsoft: |
Windows 8 Arrives — Easy-to-download upgrades and the best range of PCs ever welcome Windows 8 to worldwide availability. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the global availability of its popular Windows operating system, Windows 8. Beginning Friday, Oct. 26, consumers and businesses worldwide … | AnandTech: |
The Windows RT Review — Meet Windows RT — Microsoft's first serious foray into tablets came just after the turn of the new millenium, with Bill Gates demonstrating the first tablet PC prototype onstage at Comdex in the autumn of 2000. From there, OEMs started releasing tablets based …
More:
GigaOM
| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Microsoft's Times Square store opens, draws massive crowds — Microsoft is throwing a massive party in New York for the launch of its latest OS, Windows 8. Launching alongside Windows 8 is Microsoft's first tablet, the Surface. We have gathered a few images from twitter that show the scale …
More:
The Next Web and TechCrunch. Tweets: @fxshaw, @inafried, @windows and @tomwarren. Thanks:@bdsams
| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft offers $100 giveaway to line up for Surface — There's plenty of interest in Microsoft's new Surface tablets and Windows 8 so it's a little surprising that the company is making a lucrative offer to get people to line up at stores on their big launch day.
More:
Business Insider, InformationWeek and GeekWire
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches Windows 8 After 1.24B Hours Of Testing, Available On Over 1,000 Certified Devices
More:
Engadget, MSDN Blogs, The Register, The Verge, Digits, Ars Technica, WinBeta, Computerworld, CNET, Mashable!, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, Neowin, AllThingsD, SlashGear, SlashGear, SlashGear, Guardian, OSDir.com, LAPTOP Magazine and internetnews.com
Tweets: @anildash and @waltmossberg
| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Online Radio Service to Challenge Pandora in 2013 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and major music labels have intensified negotiations to start an advertising-supported Internet radio service by early next year, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
More:
Guardian, The Verge, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Media Decoder, BGR, PadGadget, Redmond Pie, Patently Apple, Business Insider, SlashGear, Engadget, Mashable!, Adweek, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica, GeekWire, Forbes, hypebot, MacRumors, SeekingAlpha.com, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, MacNN and everythingiCafe. See also Mediagazer
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
More:
MacRumors, PandoDaily, SeekingAlpha.com and Mercury News
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets — The Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions.
More:
The Next Web, Policy Blog, SlashGear, The Verge, CNET and Techdirt
| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak chip sales — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported record quarterly profit of $7.4 billion on Friday, with strong sales of its Galaxy range of phones masking sharply lower memory chip sales.
More:
San Francisco Chronicle, ZDNet, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
More:
TechCrunch
| Lauren Indvik / Mashable!: |
Amazon Reports $169 Million Loss on LivingSocial — Groupon's stock price isn't the only sign that the daily deals bubble has burst: In its third-quarter earnings report, Amazon took a writedown of $169 million, or $0.37 per share, for its stake in daily deals site LivingSocial.| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Facebook execs: Zynga is down, but it will snap back — Shortly after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company's gaming revenue isn't where he'd like it to be, his game team talks about where Facebook's gaming platform is headed. — Although payments for a majority of Facebook games grew …
More:
Reuters, The Next Web and BGR
| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
More:
TechCrunch, AllFacebook, VentureBeat and Mashable!
| Lauren Indvik / Mashable!: |
Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped — Yahoo has acquired the company behind 1-year-old mobile recommendations app Stamped, its first since ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO of the company in July, Mashable has learned. — The acquisition was purely for talent …
More:
Marketing Land, Yodel Anecdotal, TechCrunch, Stamped, VatorNews, SocialTimes, Wired, DealBook, 9to5Google, Betabeat, VentureBeat, GigaOM, ZDNet, Mercury News and Business Insider. Tweets: @marissamayer. Thanks:@emjbanks. See also Mediagazer
| Tania Branigan / Guardian: |
New York Times blocked in China over Wen Jiabao wealth revelations — Unwelcome revelations about wealth of family of Chinese premier, known for his humble background and populist appeal — Chinese authorities have blocked the Chinese website of the New York Times and most access …
More:
The Next Web, New York Times, Quartz, Quartz, Tech in Asia and New York Times. Tweets: @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
Sponsor Posts
Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
F5:
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Zoho:
10 essential project management reports every team should use — Let's be honest about how projects usually go sideways. A task gets blocked and nobody notices. A dependency changes and nobody updates the plan.
10 essential project management reports every team should use — Let's be honest about how projects usually go sideways. A task gets blocked and nobody notices. A dependency changes and nobody updates the plan.
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
Great Chat:
After you ring the bell
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
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.
Hard Fork:
'Hard Fork' Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz
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.
Training Data:
Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:10 AM ET, October 26, 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
Ellise Shafer / Variety:Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
The Colorado Sun:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Now Available For Pre-Order - Wi-Fi Only Versions Deliver November 2
More:
Gizmodo, The Next Web, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Engadget
| Jessica Livingston / Founders at Work: |
Tweets: @abrams, @cdixon, @nthcodepeter and @idealab
| Curtis C. Chen / ProgrammableWeb: |
| April Underwood / Twitter Advertising: |
Earlier Picks
| Philip Jones / Bookseller news: |
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
More:
TechCrunch, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
More:
The Verge, CNET, Oh, How Pinteresting!, Mashable! and SocialTimes
| James Ball / Washington Post: |
More:
Washington Post, Techdirt and The Verge
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |