|
August 25, 2013, 6:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple said to have tested 64-bit 'A7′ chips for iPhone 5S, 31% speed increases reported — As Apple's iPhone 5S event approaches, some new details about the new device's internals are emerging. Clayton Morris has claimed on Twitter that the iPhone 5S's A7 processor is …
More:
MacRumors, iMore, TechnoBuffalo, everythingiCafe, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, iClarified, GigaOM and memeburn
Tweets: @claytonmorris, @claytonmorris and @markgurman
| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show — The NSA successfully cracked the encryption guarding the United Nations' internal videoconferencing system, according to documents seen by Germany's Der Spiegel. — The publication reported on Sunday …
More:
Reuters, Washington Wire, Agence France Presse, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Associated Press, The Verge, Guardian, The Switch and Bloomberg
Tweets: @bernardkeane, @wpboon, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @dhh, @csoghoian, @teamcymru, @hale_razor, @mrthomashart and @kaepora
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Instagram, Vine stop working at same time; people use Twitter to freak out — If you want to Instagram another selfie or post a hilarious Vine video, it looks like you'll need to wait as both Instagram and Vine are currently out-of-order. — It appears both social media hubs went down sometime around 1 p.m. PST.| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: A Blogger Mocks the Denizens of Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — Sam Biddle may have one of the easiest jobs in technology journalism. That is, easy if you have the stomach for his line of work. — Every morning, he wakes up in his Brooklyn apartment, checks Twitter on his smartphone …
More:
TechHive. Tweets: @anildash, @mike_ftw, @mikeisaac, @sarahw, @davewiner, @mistersterling, @romenesko, @paleofuture, @glennf, @paleofuture and @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography — On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. — He had just one meeting to go. — That meeting was a board meeting …
More:
Business Insider, LiveSide.net, The Next Web and Business Insider
Tweets: @realadrianc, @jessicalessin, @hblodget, @howardkurtz, @mattrosoff, @katherinemiller, @dondodge, @chrishughes, @dondodge, @rishad, @stevekovach, @dannysullivan, @mikeisaac, @xeni, @risatrix, @om, @melissapierce, @jasonhirschhorn, @davemcclure, @katie_roof and @dbfarber
See also Mediagazer| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
More:
Quartz. Tweets: @daveg, @mattbuchanan, @chrismessina, @gigaom, @ianbetteridge, @hblodget, @shaig, @jank0, @bonanos and @emilychangtv
| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
The Ballmer Product Pipeline Shows a Very Mixed Record for Microsoft — Larger-than-life CEO Steve Ballmer will be remembered for a lot of things during his 13-year tenure at Microsoft, but what about the actual products he oversaw? — Overall, it is a very mixed bag … | David Pogue / Pogue's Posts: |
More:
Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision, New York Times, Paul Krugman, GigaOM, NYT Bits, Bloomberg, New York Times, New York Times, ActiveWin.com, CITEworld and The Verge. Tweets: @bussgang
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Why Yahoo and Apple Want Foursquare's Data — This week, BuzzFeed reported that Yahoo was in talks with Foursquare about a possible data-sharing deal. The news comes just months after Apple senior VP Eddy Cue was said to be in discussions with Foursquare to integrate its location data into the Apple's mapping service.| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
VMware Killed the Past. Can It Claim the Future? — VMware is a 15-year-old tech company with a market capitalization of $36 billion. Next week, it will host 21,000 customers in San Francisco and will start to find out if that means it is young or old. — “It's a statement of our success …
Tweets: @digiphile
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees — Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites … | Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator — SAN FRANCISCO — In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is the Pentagon. — In the last year, former Department of Defense … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 is ready for its October 17th release — Microsoft has finalized its Windows 8.1 update. Sources familiar with the company's Windows plans have revealed to The Verge that the software maker completed the development of Windows 8.1 earlier this week — stamped as build 9600 for Release to manufacturing (RTM).
More:
PC Magazine, ZDNet, Electronista and WinBeta
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
What Is Medium? — The site from Twitter's co-founders is one year old, and still mysterious — Just about a year ago, a new website from two of the founders of Twitter launched. It was called Medium. The new site was invite-only, but outsiders could read from various collections.
More:
Anil Dash, GigaOM, Stowe Boyd, Businessweek and The Atlantic Wire
Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? — Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? — Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books — The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books — The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
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:
Anthropic IPO Panic, A Spy At OpenAI?, The Great Food Slop Debate
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.
Great Chat:
What happened to tech's backbone?
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The $7B Startup Mapping Your Health In Just One Hour | Neko's Hjalmar Nilsonne
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Cheeky Pint:
The company building underwater drones for $50,000
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
BG2 Pod:
Jensen Huang | Does AI Revenue Justify Capex, '27 AI Bottlenecks, Singularity, Open vs Closed & more
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
How to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
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 6:10 PM ET, August 25, 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
New York Times:Washington Post:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Tweets: @adrjeffries
| Jennifer Granick / Forbes: |
More:
Techdirt and The Switch. Tweets: @qthrul, @kevinmarks, @pirateorg, @davemcclure, @vikram_nz, @attackerman and @binarybits
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
More:
I4U News, Mobile Magazine, ExtremeTech, Geek.com, PhoneArena and Gizmodo
Earlier Picks
| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Tweets: @monkbent and @christytanner
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
More:
Electronista, VentureBeat, T3 News, Google Operating System, Android Beat, Engadget and TechHive. Tweets: @vijayshekhar. Thanks:@epro