|
December 5, 2012, 6:55 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog: |
The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 — Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new look and feel …
More:
Colin Nederkoorn, The Next Web, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Engadget, SheGeeks.net, IntoMobile, MacStories, GadgeTell, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Daring Fireball, PadGadget, digitaltrends.com, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup.com, BetaNews, Gotta Be Mobile, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, TUAW, TG Daily, TechSpot, VentureBeat, gHacks Technology News, iPhone Hacks, ReadWrite, Droid Life, nbcnews.com, Lifehacker, MacRumors, WebProNews, Gizmodo, SocialTimes, CNET, Mashable!, everythingiCafe and Softpedia News. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Unveils Latest Windows Phone 8 Device: Lumia 620 Packs 3.8 Inch ClearBlack Display, NFC, Costs $249 (Before Taxes) — Marko Ahtisaari, Executive VP of Design, Nokia, has unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 device: the Nokia Lumia 620. The product design chief was speaking at the LeWeb conference taking place this week in Paris.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Nokia announces the Lumia 920T with China Mobile, available for $739 before end of 2012 — Nokia has announced that its Lumia 920T smartphone is coming to China Mobile, the country's largest carrier, and it will launch before the end of the year for 4599 RMB ($739 - off contract) with a choice of black, white, yellow and red.
More:
Engadget, Engadget, Nokia, Inquirer, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Windows Phone Daily, Reuters and Bloomberg
| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Explainer-in-Chief Can't Explain Apple — As Google Inc. battles rivals ranging from Apple Inc. to Internet companies that allege it fixes its search results, Eric Schmidt has become the search giant's peacemaker and explainer-in-chief. — Google's former CEO and current executive chairman met …
More:
CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Digits and Search Engine Land
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
More:
PhoneArena and iDownloadBlog.com
| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat — Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions.
More:
9to5Mac and Softpedia News
| Travis Kalanick / Uber Blog: |
DC Council Clears Path for Uber's Future — Uber Faithful - — Today is a *really* big day for Uber. REALLY BIG. One which will keep Uber rolling in the nation's capital for years to come, with the full support of city officials. Today the DC Council unanimously passed a legislative framework for …
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon brings one of its flagship Kindle features, X-Ray for books, to its iOS app — One of Amazon's flagship features, X-Ray for Books, has finally arrived in its iOS version. Thsi is enormous as it's one of the main reasons I love reading books on my Kindle and the Kindle Fire so much better than my iPad.| Reuters: |
U.S. fails to win early limit on Net controls at global gathering — (Reuters) - A U.S. and Canadian proposal to protect the Internet from new international regulation has failed to win prompt backing from other countries, setting up potentially tough negotiations to rewrite a telecom treaty.
More:
Hillicon Valley, The Next Web and Business Week
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, And More — Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service that offers movies, games, and books for the kids. The launch follows the recent software update to Kindle Fire …
More:
Gizmodo, USA Today, Associated Press, Engadget, Softpedia News, GeekWire, ABCNEWS, The Verge, Mashable! and CNET
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Facebook to replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100 Index on December 12th — Facebook will replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100, the basket of companies that determine the movement of the NASDAQ index. — The move is affirmation of Facebook's status in the technology space …
More:
CNET, Softpedia News, Focus on Funds, TechCrunch and NASDAQ.com
| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Upgrade to iWork iOS apps means better compatibility with Word, iWork for Mac — Apple says its iWork productivity apps for iOS should play better with the Mac version of the apps and with Microsoft Office, thanks to a key update to the apps on Tuesday. Easy compatibility between these apps … | Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps — When is a word game for the iPhone not just entertainment but an experiment into the future of how mobile apps work? When it's a game made by mobile developer and designer Loren Brichter. — At 28, he's already left quite a stamp on mobile interfaces …
More:
iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and MacRumors
| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung promotes son and heir closer to top job — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co pushed the anointed heir of the company Chairman closer to the top job on Wednesday as the it cemented a global lead in smartphones with a stock price that is close to record highs.
More:
Engadget, Associated Press, Bloomberg and PhoneArena
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Netflix scores US subscription service exclusive to Disney's first-run films in multi-year deal — Today, Walt Disney studios and Netflix entered into a multi-year agreement that makes the online video distributor the only US subscription service with licensing to show first-run live-action and animated films from the studio.| Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney: |
| Jake Smith / 9to5Google: |
Google adds horizontal carousel for web based iPad searches about local places — Google updated its web experience for U.S. iPad users who search for local places, such as bars and restaurants, on Google Search. The Mountain View-based company called the new feature a “horizontal carousel” …
More:
The Next Web and Engadget
| Casey Chan / Gizmodo: |
This Hilarious Video Shows Everything That's Annoying About Instagram — Because we're all egomaniacs who like to moonlight as artistic geniuses and because damn near everybody uses Instagram, the filtered photo sharing social network has devolved into a thumb scrolling exercise …
More:
AllThingsD, Business Insider, PhoneArena, Social News Daily, The Huffington Post, PetaPixel and TechCrunch. Tweets: @brooke
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Lifts Two-Per-Customer Order Limit on iPhone 5 — In yet another sign that Apple's iPhone 5 stocks are returning to normal, Apple has lifted its limit of two iPhone 5's per customer. The top boilerplate in this image is from last week when Apple began selling the GSM iPhone 5 unlocked in the U.S. …
More:
CNET, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista and iClarified
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
YouTube for iOS updated with iPad, iPhone 5 support, AirPlay and performance improvements — Google has today updated the YouTube app for iOS with support for the iPhone 5′s display, as well as the ability to stream videos over AirPlay to the Apple TV or other enabled devices more easily.| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Zite 2.0: A smarter, snappier personalized magazine for iOS — With its completely redesigned apps for iPhone and iPad, the CNN-owned Zite is aiming to make it easier than ever to find the news that matters to you. — A look at Zite 2.0, as seen on an iPad.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
PeopleBrowsr Claims “Twitter Changed Position On Eve Of Discovery” Over Federal Jurisdiction Request — Tonight, PeopleBrowsr, the company that filed a restraining order against Twitter to keep a hold of its firehose of data after Twitter decided to end the deal it had in place with them, came out to discuss the latest in its case.
More:
Kred Blog
| Charles Mead / Bloomberg: |
Intel Raises $6 Billion in Bond Sale to Buy Back Stock — Intel Corp. (INTC) sold $6 billion of bonds in the largest dollar-denominated sale since Abbott Laboratories raised $14.7 billion on Nov. 5, Bloomberg data show. — The offering, which topped the company's previous record …
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft opens its Socl social-search site to any and all testers — Summary: Microsoft is opening up its Socl social-networking research project. There are still no public plans as to when, how and if Microsoft will take Socl commercial. — On December 4, Microsoft's FuSE team took … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Philips, LG Electronics, 4 others fined $1.92 billion for EU cartel — (Reuters) - Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade.
More:
EU Press Room, Engadget, The Next Web and Associated Press
| Carol Cratty / CNN: |
U.S., European officials to launch global effort against online child sexual abuse — Washington (CNN) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom will launch a new effort to fight child sexual abuse at a ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday.
More:
The Register, BBC, EU Press Room and The Age
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:
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
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
Big Technology Podcast:
SAP CEO: AI Won't Kill Software, But It Will Change Your Job — With Christian Klein
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:
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.
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 6:55 AM ET, December 5, 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
Todd Spangler / Variety:Los Angeles Times:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Neil McAllister / The Register: |
More:
Canalys Newsroom, The Appside and PadGadget
| Karishma Vaswani / BBC: |
More:
TechCrunch, BerryReview, Engadget, Softpedia News, SlashGear and MobileSyrup.com
| Moxie Marlinspike / Twitter Engineering: |
More:
Softpedia News, BGR, SC Magazine and Ars Technica
Earlier Picks
| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
More:
The Next Web and Engadget
| Tiernan Ray / Wall Street Journal: |
| Alyson Raletz / Kansas City Business Journal: |
More:
SlashGear, TechCrunch, PhoneArena and Engadget
| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
More:
BGR, CNET, PR Newswire, PhoneDog.com, TechRadar.com, The Droid Guy, Maximum PC and Gizmodo
| Douglas Macmillan / Bloomberg: |
More:
broadstuff. Tweets: @alexia, @qthrul, @seth, @davemcclure, @gaberivera, @jtemple, @jordandhudson, @rafat and @mathewi. Thanks:@skaseyfarrar