|
September 6, 2013, 5:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Amir Efrati / jessica lessin: |
Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow? — Which technology giant will be the first to offer a free smartphone? Amazon.com Inc. is making a play. — In a previously unreported move, the online retailer and Kindle maker is considering introducing …
More:
BGR, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Quartz, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Verge, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Next Web, Digits, pocketnow.com, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com and Kindle Review
Tweets: @counternotions, @tcarmody, @dcseifert, @jessicalessin, @amir and @carnage4life
| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme is now writing its own headlines — Right now there's a headline on Techmeme written by our news editors. Our more familiar readers know why this is noteworthy: from the time we launched in 2005 until yesterday, our content consisted entirely of quotes.
More:
Business Insider and Poynter. Tweets: @danyork, @mathewi, @mrinaldesai, @dannysullivan, @karaswisher, @gaberivera, @zpower, @hblodget, @joannastern, @mg, @joannastern, @mat, @ryanlawler, @jeffsand, @r, @nicolasvoisin, @jktrotter, @jdowdell, @marypcbuk, @davemcclure, @billmickey, @ryanlawler, @obrien, @michaelpilla, @bmorrissey, @joelandren, @parislemon, @alexia, @starfire2258, @gaberivera, @pkafka, @zseward, @gaberivera, @zpower, @nerdtalker, @ashleymayer, @jguynn, @parislemon, @qthrul, @nerdtalker, @gaberivera, @tcarmody, @eldon, @davewiner, @michaelsteeber, @devinreams, @rsingel, @nerdtalker, @jerkob, @tcarmody, @eldon, @eric_andersen, @nerdtalker, @sarahfrier, @apollozac, @percival, @theromit, @graywolf, @anthonyha, @nitashatiku, @runspired, @panzer, @spencerchen, @llsethj, @mmasnick, @pkafka, @caseynewton, @anthonyha, @apollozac, @jguynn, @eric_andersen, @bsheridan, @m4tt, @besttechie, @hornokplease, @andrewhyde and @profjeffjarvis. See also Mediagazer
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's OS X Mavericks release planned for end of October — Apple plans to release its next Mac operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, at the end of October, according to sources with knowledge of the launch plans. — This comes despite claims and speculation that Apple will release OS X Mavericks …
More:
AllThingsD, PC Magazine, GeekWire, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Geek.com, BGR, SlashGear, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Bitch, iMore, LAPTOP Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, GigaOM, AppleInsider, POPSUGAR, VentureBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @markgurman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile — Apple Inc. is preparing to ship iPhones to China Mobile Ltd., people familiar with the matter say, an indication that a long-awaited deal between the two companies is in place. — A deal would cap years of negotiations between the two companies.
More:
MacRumors, GigaOM, Engadget, iMore, Digits, The Next Web, BGR, 9to5Mac, Tech Trader Daily, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Mashable and iClarified
Tweets: @markgurman, @wsj, @iansherr and @iansherr
| Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report: |
More:
Reuters, Examiner, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Wired, The Atlantic Wire, blog.chron.com, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @benedictevans and @marcoarment
| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
Judge lays down Apple's punishment in ebooks case. It's largely in line with what the feds wanted — After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday.
More:
Reuters, The Register, MacRumors, GeekWire, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Computerworld, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Macgasm, Macworld, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, TUAW, SlashGear, Examiner, The Mac Observer, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @victoriastrauss and @laurahazardowen
See also Mediagazer| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
LG Nexus 5 with LTE makes probable appearance in FCC (update: 5-inch display, Snapdragon 800) — The oft-rumored Nexus 5 is turning into quite a riddle. If you've been following the saga, there has been no shortage of drama in recent memory. Most recently we saw a Google employee snapping pictures …
More:
Sprint 4G Rollout …, AnandTech, Android Authority, ExtremeTech, pocketnow.com, I4U News, Gotta Be Mobile, The Droid Guy, AndroidGuys, T3 News, VentureBeat, Geek.com, SlashGear, Ars Technica, TechHive, TechCrunch, GigaOM, TechnoBuffalo, Android Community, TechSpot, Phones Review, AndroidSPIN, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk and Unwired View
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest And Path To Battle Over Letter “P” Logo Trademark — Are the Path and Pinterest logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging startup is currently working to prevent Pinterest from acquiring the trademark to the letter “P” as a stylized design (like the one shown here, and below).| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Crypto expert: encryption libraries, NIST standards now warrant extra scrutiny — On the NSA — Let me tell you the story of my tiny brush with the biggest crypto story of the year. — A few weeks ago I received a call from a reporter at ProPublica, asking me background questions about encryption.
More:
Computerworld, BuzzFeed, SiliconBeat, NBCNews, VatorNews, GigaOM, The Register, TechEye, Help Net Security, Daring Fireball, PC Magazine, Federal Computer Week, Network World, Businessweek, ExtremeTech, dailywireless.org, Digital Trends and ZDNet
Tweets: @dansinker, @nytimesbits, @johnmyleswhite and @kentindell
See also Mediagazer| Eric Rodenbeck / Wired: |
Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes — Where's the densest place in the Bay Area, the place where the largest numbers of people can use the smallest numbers of buses? By this logic it's not the hipsters that have chosen to gentrify San Francisco …
Tweets: @conorsen, @nytimesbits and @timoreilly
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Thanks to a new chip, the Galaxy Note 3′s huge screen won't kill its battery — The charge on the Galaxy Note 3 is going to last a lot longer than you think - and not just because of the slightly larger battery Samsung is shipping with the handset. Buried within the radio guts … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
| Paul Graham / Y Combinator: |
YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too — We just opened applications for the winter 2014 Y Combinator batch, and we're happy to announce that there's something new this time: an application form for nonprofits. We're going to start including nonprofits in every YC batch. We'd been thinking about this for a while.
More:
The Next Web
| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges — EU commission legislation would introduce flat rate call charges, but big network providers say changes could cost them €7bn — Europe will ban mobile phone networks from charging customers more to use their phones abroad … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
eBay acquires Decide.com, shopping research site will shut down Sept. 30 — Decide's CEO Mike Fridgen taps power of data to change how we shop. — eBay is buying Seattle startup Decide.com, gobbling up the online shopping research service that predicted whether prices …
More:
Decide Blog, The Next Web, Digits and Engadget
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
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.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
Grit:
The Difference Between 1% Improvements and 10x Growth | Immad Akhund
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
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:
Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge
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.
Machine Gods:
OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad
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:
Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:35 PM ET, September 6, 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
Jasper Ward / Reuters:Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
More:
The Microsoft Office Blog, BetaNews, MacRumors, PC World, ZDNet, TechCrunch and MobileSyrup.com
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
More:
Yahoo, The Register, Digits, Computerworld, The Atlantic Wire and The Verge
Tweets: @amac, @vkopytoff and @vkopytoff
See also Mediagazer| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Earlier Picks
| Ann Friedman / The Baffler: |
| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
More:
Laughing Squid and nextbigwhat.com
| Matt Buchanan / New Yorker: |
| Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
| Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes: |
Thanks:@thealexknapp