|
December 28, 2012, 11:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Garett Sloane / New York Post: |
Rage against rules — Instagram revolt — Instagram users outraged over new rules made good on their threat to dump the popular photo-sharing app. — The app, which Facebook acquired for $1 billion earlier this year, may have shed nearly a quarter of its daily active users in the wake of the debacle …
More:
BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch, ValueWalk and Quartz
Tweets: @dannysullivan and @davewiner
See also Mediagazer| StreetInsider.com: |
Facebook (FB) Falls as Instagram Users Plunge 25% on Outrage — Shares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) are lower early Friday as data showed the company's recent Instagram Terms of Use gaff could have cost the company dearly. — According to data from AppData, nearly a quarter of Instagram's active daily users … | Alistair Charlton / International Business Times: |
Instagram Loses 25% of Daily Users After Term of Service Backlash — By ALISTAIR CHARLTON: Subscribe to Alistair's RSS feed — They were reversed in less than 24 hours, along with a sincere apology from the CEO, but Instagram's proposed changes to its terms and conditions may have cost …
More:
Business Insider
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
RIM's First Patent Payment to Nokia: $65 Million — When Research In Motion settled its patent dispute with Nokia last week, the company agreed to make a “one-time payment and on-going payments” to its Finnish adversary. But the size of those payments wasn't disclosed, and the terms of the deal kept confidential.
More:
VentureBeat, VatorNews, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge and Electronista
| Reuters: |
Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt — (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would play out.
More:
Business Insider and parislemon
| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
More:
AllThingsD, Forbes, SlashGear, Electronista, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, CNET, Business Insider and The Next Web
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever — The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less. Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing. — Via: yourprops.com
More:
CNET, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Business Insider, BBC, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @mattbuchanan
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22 — Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in. — Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Adding 415 apps daily, Windows 8 blows past the 35,000 app milestone — Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now has a total of 35,0000 applications in its Store, according to tracking website MetroStore Scanner. — The total tally, 35,167, represents a growth of 14,557 in the last 35 days … | Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Cycloramic app spins iPhone 5 to take 360-degree video — Cycloramic, a new app, uses the iPhone 5's vibrations to spin the phone around and capture handsfree 360 degree video. — Could this be the coolest app ever? It'll certainly be the center of attention at a party.
More:
TechCrunch, The Verge, Redmond Pie, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and everythingiCafe
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
‘Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager — Top dog at RIM Thorsten Heins heavily implied that video chat would be added to BBM when BlackBerry 10 showed up, and now possible confirmation of the feature has come from what are thought to be leaked presentation slides.| Joan Lowy / Associated Press: |
Fees undermine fliers' ability to compare fares — WASHINGTON (AP) — For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare. — But as airlines offer a proliferating list of add-on services, from early boarding to premium seating and baggage fees, the ability to comparison-shop for the lowest total fare is eroding.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017 — The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years.| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Here come the design patents: new law boosts rights in shapes, designs — One of Apple's key weapons in its legal battle against competitors is a special type of patent that protects the visual appearance of a product. Critics have denounced these patents as a way to own “rounded rectangles” … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
The cost of Netflix's political win: $1 million in lobbying over two years and its own PAC — Netflix has a win under its belt heading into 2013: its users will soon be able to share their video viewing history through social channels. A small feature one might think … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
China Passes Law Requiring People Identify Themselves Online — China passed rules today requiring people to identify themselves when signing up for Internet and phone services, as the Communist Party tightens control over the world's largest population of web users.
More:
Xinhua, Reuters, The Next Web, The Verge, Softpedia News, CHINAdaily, Now, that was strange! and SlashGear
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:
Zoho Books levels up with Apple Intelligence — The best accounting experience isn't really attainable if your software can't keep up with evolving technologies, is it? That's why Zoho Books made sure to jump …
Zoho Books levels up with Apple Intelligence — The best accounting experience isn't really attainable if your software can't keep up with evolving technologies, is it? That's why Zoho Books made sure to jump …
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
Sources:
Baseten's CEO on why every company will want to own its AI
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.
Training Data:
Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Andrew Feldman from Cerebras
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Acquired:
The Home Depot
Learn the playbooks that built the world's greatest companies - and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.
Subscribe to Acquired.
Big Technology Podcast:
Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)
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:
The Atlantic's CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 AM ET, December 28, 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
Selome Hailu / Variety:Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Matt Tatham / Experian: |
More:
VentureBeat, Marketing Pilgrim and AllThingsD
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
More:
Business Wire, GeekWire, MobileSyrup.com, Forbes and TechCrunch
Earlier Picks
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
More:
OUYA, PC Magazine, GigaOM, SlashGear, Engadget, TechCrunch, Electronista, Android Authority, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Geek.com and LAPTOP Magazine
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
More:
Flurry, Engadget, Distimo, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Macgasm, App Advice, CNET, Guardian, Mashable!, The Next Web, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, Examiner, Business Insider, Pocketnow, TUAW, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, BGR, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, MobileSyrup.com and TechCrunch
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |