|
July 29, 2013, 3:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Worker Group Alleges Abuses at Apple Supplier in China — China Labor Watch Alleges Safety and Pay Issues at Pegatron Plants — BEIJING—A new report from a Chinese workers-rights group alleges labor abuses at a major Apple Inc. contractor the company has been using more as it shifts some work from longtime supplier Foxconn.
More:
china labor watch, BBC, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, Reuters, CNNMoney.com, Engadget, GamesIndustry International, Examiner, PC World, iPhone in Canada Blog, Associated Press, Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, CNET, App Advice, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Polygon, memeburn, AppleInsider, NPR, GamePolitics blogs, Phones Review, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Forbes, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Kotaku, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks and Datamation.com
Tweets: @evadou and @paulmozur
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Low-cost iPhone seemingly confirmed as plastic-bodied and not yet in mass production from Pegatron working conditions report — The report on working conditions at Chinese iPhone manufacturer Pegatron appears to confirm that the low-cost iPhone does indeed exist, is plastic and is not yet in mass production.| Josh Chin / China Real Time Report: |
Apple's Response to Latest Supplier Labor Abuse Allegations … New York-based nonprofit China Labor Watch on Monday released a report alleging labor abuses — including environmental and safety violations, withholding of worker pay and poor living conditions — at Taiwanese Apple Inc. contractor Pegatron.
More:
AppleInsider, DailyFinance.com, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Macworld, Ars Technica, The Verge, Washington Post, The Next Web, The Atlantic Wire, TUAW, The Register, TechSpot, Yahoo! News, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Quartz, ZDNet, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Ubergizmo and I4U News
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Says SVP Bob Mansfield “No Longer” on Executive Team, but Gives No Explanation as to Why … Early Sunday afternoon, Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of technologies, disappeared from the company's Web site, his biography removed from its executive profiles page without explanation.
More:
Daring Fireball, Bloomberg, GigaOM, GeekWire, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Network World, Los Angeles Times, NYT Bits, PC Magazine, Washington Post, The Tell, InfoWorld, BGR, TUAW, App Advice, The Mac Observer, ZDNet, Business Insider, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, TechEye, SiliconBeat, CNET, MacNN, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, AppleInsider, iMore.com, GigaOM, The Verge, Insanely Great Mac, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, GamesIndustry International, Forbes, iClarified, MacRumors, The Next Web and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman and @iansherr
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
New iPhone with biometric fingerprint sensor seemingly confirmed by iOS leak — Looks like the rumors are true: iOS 7 beta 4 has leaked a new folder called “BiometricKitUI.” Based on the description, sent to us by Hamza Sood, it seems pretty clear that Apple is preparing a new iPhone with a fingerprint sensor.
More:
9to5Mac, App Advice, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Business Insider, CNET, Engadget, BGR, AppleInsider, iLounge, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, BGR India, App Advice, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, GeekSays, Softpedia News, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile and iClarified
Tweets: @hamzasood, @evelynrusli, @markgurman and @panzer
Thanks:@iapposx| Wall Street Journal: |
Patent War Adds Front in U.S. — Obama Administration Faces Veto Decision on Ruling in Apple-Samsung Fight — By - BRENT KENDALL And - IAN SHERR - — Smartphone rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. have dueled over patents in courts around the globe.
More:
BGR, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceMobileIT News, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, Electronista and App Advice. Tweets: @brkend
| BBC: |
Microsoft's Bing introduces child abuse search pop-ups — Microsoft's Bing search engine has become the first to introduce pop-up warnings for people in the UK who seek out online images of child abuse. — The notification will tell them the content is illegal and provide details of a counselling service.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's new Bluetooth ‘Treasure Tag’ will prevent you from ever losing your keys again — Nokia is preparing to launch a proximity sensor accessory for its range of Lumia Windows Phones. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the Finnish smartphone maker will debut a … | John Ribeiro / PC World: |
US patent office rejects claims of Apple ‘pinch to zoom’ patent — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected claims of an Apple patent that figures prominently in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, according to documents filed by the South Korean company in a U.S. federal court.
More:
AppleInsider, ZDNet, CNET, MacRumors, Engadget, PhoneArena, iLounge, The Register, App Advice, Datamation.com, FOSS Patents and MacDailyNews
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Relaunches Zagat's Website And Mobile Apps, No Payment Or Registration Required — Google today gave Zagat, the restaurant review service it acquired in 2011, a set of new mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as a complete facelift on the web. For the first time, Google says … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iTunes 11.1 beta to developers with iTunes Radio — Alongside iOS 7 beta 4, Apple has provided developers with iTunes 11.1 beta. The biggest new feature is built-in iTunes Radio. iTunes Radio is Apple's upcoming streaming music service that is also integrated into iOS 7. — B
More:
BGR, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Engadget and MobilesPie. Thanks:@markgurman
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video — Lee Hutchinson has a problem. My fellow Ars writer is a man who loves to watch YouTube videos—mostly space rocket launches and gun demonstrations, I assume—but he never knows when his home Internet service will let him do so.
More:
BGR, Tested, DSLreports, 9to5Google, Gizmodo and SocialTimes
Tweets: @scrawford, @jbrodkin, @acedtect and @internetthought
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:
Meet Zoho Social MCP: Your AI assistant can now help run social media — Social media management has come a long way from simply publishing posts.Today, marketers are expected to create content …
Meet Zoho Social MCP: Your AI assistant can now help run social media — Social media management has come a long way from simply publishing posts.Today, marketers are expected to create content …
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
Grit:
Booking.com CEO on AI and the Future of Travel
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Acquired:
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
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.
Lenny's Podcast:
The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Demis Steps Down, Apple's Memory Problem, Microsoft's Clever Trick
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:
The White House's Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR's Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
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.
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 3:30 PM ET, July 29, 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
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:Rob Bonta / Deadline:
David Uberti / Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
More:
Engadget, Gizmodo, GSMArena Blog and Softpedia News
| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
More:
BetaNews, BBC, Digits, Computerworld, Engadget, TechSpot, TechHive, ExtremeTech, Tested, VentureBeat, Electronista, Gizmodo and SlashGear
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Earlier Picks
| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
More:
SiliconBeat and The Verge
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
More:
I4U News, WebProNews and Mashable
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
More:
Amazon.com, Gawker, Bloomberg, Engadget, Ubergizmo, AllThingsD, WebProNews, NYT Bits, Digits and The Next Web
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Tweets: @alexismadrigal and @davewiner
| Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times: |
| Jon Callaghan / True Ventures: |
Tweets: @tcarmody, @nabeel, @tonysphere and @om