Techmeme: 21" iMac teardown shows newly rearranged innards (Lee Hutchinson/Ars Technica)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

November 30, 2012, 11:30 AM

Top News

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple's new redesigned iMacs go on sale in the US, 21.5-inch models shipping in 1-3 days — Announcing earlier in the week that its new iMacs would go on sale at the end of November, Apple has pushed live orders for its new redesigned iMac models in the US but also in Canada and across Europe …

More: CNET, Engadget, Mashable!, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, Electronista, TUAW, MacRumors and AppleInsider

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

21" iMac teardown shows newly rearranged innards — Tight packaging means design changes over previous model. — Image from Kodawarisan — The redesigned slimmer 21" iMac has gone on sale on the web and at Apple stores, and Japanese Apple enthusiast site Kodawarisan has what appears …

More: CNET, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, MacRumors and Electronista

David Pierce / The Verge:

Apple iMac and Mac mini review (late 2012)

Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog:

How Syria Turned Off the Internet — Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened.

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google reactivates Speak2Tweet for Syrian Internet cutoff — A service to broadcast voice messages over Twitter is back up and running as Google tries to sidestep Syria's Net blackout — but it might not work so well with curtailed Syrians phone services. — Google and Twitter have restarted …

More: Google+, 9to5Google, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews, The Next Web, Daily Dot, Softpedia News and Reuters. Tweets: @google

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Official Syrian Web Sites Hosted in U.S.

Tweets: @irenepoet and @amychozick

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

iTunes — It Goes To 11. (In Design, If Not Performance.) — Yes, that headline. Obvious. But appropriate. — Yes, after much delay (about a month), iTunes 11 is here today. And yes, it is one of the biggest overhauls of the media management service yet. Perhaps the biggest.

More: PC World, Computerworld, Inquirer, The Verge, Slate, TonisTechBlogTonisTechBlog, TG Daily, The Tech Report, TUAW and The Register

Tweets: @nitroware and @gruber

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Miscellaneous Thoughts and Observations on iTunes 11

More: Business Insider, MacRumors, TUAW and iPhone Hacks

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iTunes 11 now allows you to redeem gift cards using your computer's camera

Thanks:@markgurman

BBC:

Facebook given 72 hours to remove paedophile monitoring page — A convicted sex offender has won a High Court order for the removal of a Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles in Northern Ireland. — A judge ruled some content amounted to prima facie harassment of the man and risked infringing his human rights.

More: The Verge, WebProNews and The Next Web

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said to Plan Next Xbox Console for 2013 Holiday Season — The Halo 4 game by Xbox 360 was launched on Nov. 6, 2012. The next version of Microsoft's Xbox video-game machine is scheduled to be available for the holiday season in 2013. — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) …

More: CNET, PC World, PC Magazine, Forbes, TechSpot, Geek.com, WebProNews, VG247, The Verge, Neowin, Gizmodo and Kotaku

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Judge says “no fundamental right to use Facebook,” tosses antitrust case — A federal judge ruled that Facebook has the right to exclude users if they install a program that alters the look of its website and swaps out its ad offerings. — In a ruling issued Thursday in San Diego …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

After Deal Changes With Zynga, Facebook Could Now Make Its Own Games — Could Facebook delve into the game-making business? — According to documents filed with the SEC, it's possible. — Facebook and gaming giant Zynga revised their long-standing contract agreements on Thursday …

More: BBC, The Register, DailyFinance.com, Electronista, T3 News, memeburn, Betabeat, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Zynga Loosens Its Deal With Facebook: No Longer Tied To Facebook Ad Units, Credits, Or Exclusivity

More: digitaltrends.com, Computerworld, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Reuters, CNET, VG247, Inside Social Games, CNET, The Next Web, Inside Facebook, bizjournals, Bloomberg, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Arrives In China December 7, iPhone 5 Follows December 14 — Apple has just announced the official release date of the iPad mini, 4th generation iPad and iPhone 5 in China. The tablets will go on sale next Friday, December 7 in that country …

More: Apple, Engadget, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Verge, CNET, BGR, The Next Web, iLounge, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Tech in Asia and TUAW

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Scoop: Key pricing and launch details of Redbox Instant revealed — The online video joint venture Redbox Instant by Verizon is set to launch sometime before the end of the year. The service is currently being tested in private beta, and Verizon and Redbox have kept mum on some key details.

More: Gizmodo, DSLreports, Ubergizmo, CNET, Engadget, AndroidGuys, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Community, GadgeTell, digitaltrends.com, SlashGear and Mobile Magazine

Mike Senese / Wired:

Staples Announces In-Store 3-D Printing Service — Pretty soon you'll be able to print your 3-D projects at the local Staples. — A new service called “Staples Easy 3D” will allow customers to upload their designs to Staples' website, then pick up the printed objects at their local office supply megastore …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable, VentureBeat and Electronista. Tweets: @howardlindzon

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers — Enlarge / A court order served on Austrian Tor operator William Weber. — An Austrian operator of Tor servers—that were used to anonymously route huge amounts of traffic over the Internet—has been charged with distributing child pornography.

More: BBC, All Discussions, FierceCIO:TechWatch News, Raided for operating … and ZDNet. Tweets: @csoghoian

Andrew Auernheimer / Wired:

Forget Disclosure — Hackers Should Keep Security Holes to Themselves — Editor's Note: The author of this opinion piece, aka “weev,” was found guilty last week of computer intrusion for obtaining the unprotected e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's website, and passing them to a journalist.

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

BPI To UK Pirate Party: Shut Down Your Pirate Bay Proxy — As soon as the High Court ordered several UK ISPs to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay earlier this year, many users of the site flocked to the proxy service of the UK Pirate Party. — For millions of UK Internet users …

More: Music Week, The Next Web, ZDNet, BBC, Softpedia News, Inquirer and Boing Boing. See also Mediagazer

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Voice calls over 4G LTE networks are battery killers — Every mobile carrier wants to replace their old voice services with new VoIP-based systems utilizing their 4G networks, but it looks like they've got some big kinks to iron out in the technology first.

More: MobileBurn.com, BGR, PhoneArena, The Verge, Pocketnow, Business Week and dailywireless.org

Mike Hibberd / Telecoms.com:

Apple vetting operators on LTE network performance — Apple is vetting networks before allowing operators to offer the iPhone 5 as an LTE device — Apple is not allowing mobile operators to offer the iPhone 5 as an LTE device unless they pass the Californian vendor's own …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, The Loop, MobileSyrup.com and MacStories. Tweets: @benedictevans

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero — PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. — It is Thiel's third investment in Xero.

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, VatorNews and The Next Web

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Apple begins selling unlocked iPhone 5 in the US, starting from $649 — It's that special time of the year... that is, when Apple decides to unfetter the iPhone for US shoppers. The Cupertino crew has quietly started selling the iPhone 5 in an unlocked, off-contract form that will work on GSM …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Register, MacRumors, TechSpot, The Next Web, The Verge, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Tech Shout!, SlashGear, InformationWeek and Gizmodo

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Griffin Launching Official Lightning Connector Cables Next Week — Griffin today announced the upcoming release of Apple-certified Lightning charge and sync cables for the iPhone 5, 5th generation iPod touch, fourth generation iPad and iPad mini. — Though there have been several unofficial …

More: Griffin Technology, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, iLounge and InformationWeek

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Apptopia Mobile App Bazaar Gains Momentum — So you've built the mobile app, and you've got a bunch of people using it, but it's no Instagram. Now what? It's not as easy to raise Series A funding as it used to be, and mobile apps are a tough, hits-driven business.

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Atari celebrates 40 years of Pong with new, free iOS Pong game, custom portable Xbox 360 — Atari's celebrating 40 years of arcade classic Pong today by releasing ... another version of Pong. Pong World is being dubbed “the first-ever official new Pong game on iOS” (despite our search …

More: SiliconANGLE, PC World, BuzzFeed, GadgeTell, newlaunches.com, CNET, TUAW, Motley Fool, VentureBeat, Gamenguide, Digit - Tech News, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, nbcnews.com, Kotaku, destructoid and MTV Multiplayer

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.

Cape:

Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.

Zoho:

Introduction: Zoho Notebook now imports and transcribes your call recordings automatically from Zoho apps — Does your team run on Zoho's call and meeting apps? That's where decisions get made, plans come together, and work actually moves forward.

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

Big Technology Podcast:

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn

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.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft

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:

Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem

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:

Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters

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:

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

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.

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 11:30 AM ET, November 30, 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.