|
May 14, 2013, 11:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board — By signing the three largest record labels, it's likely we'll see Google roll out its new subscription music services at I /O — Odds are increasing that Google will give us a peek tomorrow during …
More:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ReadWrite, CNET, The Atlantic Wire, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, NEWS.com.au, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Reuters, paidContent, PhoneArena, Digital Media Wire, Pocket-lint, SFWeekly, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable, Engadget, Macgasm, Pocketables, Droid Life and SocialTimes. See also Mediagazer
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer — BlackBerry has just announced that its hugely popular BBM messaging service is going multi-platform: it will be released for Android and iOS as a free app this summer. BBM will support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above …
More:
Inside BlackBerry, BlackBerry, iMore, Tech in Asia, Inside BlackBerry, Computerworld, PhoneArena, The Next Web, AllThingsD, TechSpot, VentureBeat, TechHive, Yahoo! News, ZDNet, Geekosystem, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, Mobile Marketing Watch, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, CITEworld, CNET, Phone Scoop, Wired, Inquirer, Engadget and AllTwitter
Tweets: @stevekovach and @laughingstoic
| Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry: |
New BlackBerry Q5 Announced Today at BlackBerry Live for Select Markets — As the BlackBerry Live keynote news keeps flowing in I'm happy to introduce you to the youthful and fun BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10. With a QWERTY keyboard and a confident design …
More:
BlackBerry, CNET, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, PandoDaily, Pocketnow, ITworld.com, The Verge, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Neowin, Reuters and ZDNet
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
More:
CNET, The Verge, IntoMobile and AllThingsD
| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
More:
CNET, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget and SlashGear
| Michael C. / Inside BlackBerry: |
More:
The Verge, Examiner, BetaNews, SlashGear and AllThingsD
| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Larry Page Explains What Happened to His Voice — For the first time in nearly a year, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page is publicly addressing a question about his personal health: why he lost his voice and continues to speak more hoarsely than is normal.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Debuts Its Latest Hardware, Stand, A $299 Card Swiper For iPad Registers — At an event in San Francisco at Blue Bottle Coffee, Square debuted a stand built specifically for the iPad, which turns the device into a card-swiping register. — Hardware has always been a part …
More:
Square, AllThingsD, Fortune, The Next Web, Geekosystem, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, Valleywag, MacRumors, The Verge, WebProNews and The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @zseward
| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
More:
Cult of Mac and PadGadget
| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Apple tells U.S. of tough talks, not collusion, with publishers — (Reuters) - Apple Inc responded to Justice Department accusations it conspired with publishers to push up electronic book prices, saying it negotiated with a number of publishing companies separately and crafted different agreements with each.
More:
Washington Post and Bloomberg
| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox — The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform. A Dwolla representative confirmed the move to Betabeat.| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available ‘later’ this year — One of the worst kept secrets rattling around Microsoft's campus is Windows Blue, the forthcoming update to Windows 8 that addresses users' bugbears about the OS.
More:
The Windows Blog, Inside BlackBerry, Digits, CNET, InfoWorld, ZDNet, The Register, Geek.com, TechSpot, Digital Trends and The Verge
| Douglas Pearce / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
Outlook.com now lets you chat with Google friends - one more reason to make the switch — The last three months since Outlook.com came out of preview have been filled with releases to help make you more productive and your experience more personal. These were often based on your feedback.
More:
The Verge, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Techie Buzz, memeburn, SiliconBeat, Digits and Gizmodo
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Tim Cook Coffee Auction Ends with $610,000 Bid — The CharityBuzz auction for coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook has just ended, with a final bid driving the price up to $610,000. Previously, the auction had stagnated at $605,000, where it remained until 30 minutes before the bidding closed.
More:
SiliconBeat, CNET, CNN, Cult of Mac, Telegraph, Los Angeles Times and AppleInsider
| Moxie Marlinspike: |
A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch — Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they're working on in that country. Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it's not uncommon …
More:
Wired, Middle East Real Time, SlashGear, Techdirt, Salon, The Register and Help Net Security
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Netflix removes streaming expiration dates from API after ‘Streampocalypse’ hysteria — The end of April suddenly became very stressful for Netflix subscribers, as it was widely reported that nearly 1,800 titles would be disappearing from its Watch Instantly service in the US.
More:
Netflix API, CNET, paidContent, DSLreports, Macgasm, ProgrammableWeb and Gizmodo
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nearly 75% Of All Smartphones Sold In Q1 Were Android, With Samsung At 30%; Mobile Sales Overall Nearly Flat: Gartner — Gartner has just released its Q1 figures for mobile handset sales, and the key takeaway is that Android continues to steal the show, led by handset maker Samsung.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Still Eats a Third of the Web Every Night; Amazon, HBO and Hulu Trail Behind — For the last three years, Netflix has accounted for a third of the Internet traffic zipping into North American homes every night. — But Web video competitors like Amazon, HBO and Hulu all say they're seeing significant growth.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia Shield gaming handheld priced at $349, pre-orders begin on May 20th (preview) — The biggest surprise at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is about to go on sale. The Nvidia Shield, a five-inch portable Android game console that can also stream PC games from a nearby gaming computer …
More:
NVIDIA, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, BGR, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Polygon, ZDNet, 9to5Google, The Droid Guy and The Tech Report
| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Apple sued over faulty power button on iPhone 4 — A Florida woman is seeking more than $5 million from Apple on behalf of thousands of iPhone owners who allegedly bought phones with defective power buttons that would not lock or turn off. — In a class action suit filed in San Jose …
More:
CNET, AppleInsider, VR-Zone, 9to5Mac and The Mac Observer
| Associated Press: |
German court says Google must act if autocomplete makes defamatory suggestions — BERLIN — Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday. — The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more — Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today. — Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists.
More:
Web Host Industry Review
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.
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.
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:
Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
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
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'What's in Louie's Wallet', With Louie Mantia
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
Big Technology Podcast:
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft's Best Day
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:
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
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.
Great Chat:
Tech's short-term era
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.
Access:
Meet the most AI-pilled CEO on Earth
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:30 PM ET, May 14, 2013.
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
Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:Stephen Council / Business Insider:
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: |
More:
Engadget, Droid Life and Android Police
| Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Earlier Picks
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Jonathan Skillings / CNET: |
More:
Mashable, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |