|
October 18, 2013, 9:00 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Google: |
Google Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results — Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. “Google had another strong quarter with $14.9 billion in revenue and great product progress,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
More:
SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Network World, New York Times, Forbes, Digits, Quartz, Softpedia News, MediaNama, eWeek, CITEworld, VatorNews, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, ReadWrite, Phandroid, AdExchanger, pocketnow.com, CNET, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, BBC and GigaOM
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011 — It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% of its traffic … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Nexus 5 listing appears in the Play Store, teases 16GB for $349 — We still haven't heard anything official about Google's next Nexus phone, but tonight some people are already seeing it as an option in the Play Store. Just among our editors, some see the Nexus 4 while others get the result shown above …
More:
The Verge, Android Police, BGR, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, The Next Web, Droid Life, Guardian, Yahoo! News, iPhone, 9to5Google, Gizmodo UK, pocketnow.com, I4U News, IntoMobile, Muktware, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista, SlashGear and Softpedia News
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple: No, We Can't Read Your iMessages (And We Don't Want to, Either) — Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it.
More:
Quarkslab's blog, Digits, Mashable, The Mac Observer and The Switch
| Jeremy Kirk / Macworld: |
Researchers challenge Apple's claim of unbreakable iMessage encryption — A close look at Apple's iMessage system shows the company could easily intercept communications on the service despite its assurances to the contrary, researchers claimed Thursday at a security conference.
More:
ZDNet, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Phones Review, Daily Dot, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Bitch and MacRumors. Tweets: @techhive
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
AT&T Announces $5 Tablet Day Passes, Deal to Power Tesla's In-Car Wireless — While consumers are clearly buying tablets in droves, getting them to fork over to connect them to cellular networks has been another story. — Buyers have overwhelmingly chosen Wi-Fi-only models, and … | David Pogue / New York Times: |
Windows 8.1: An improvement for touch devices, but still feels jarring — Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1 — Just about one year ago, Microsoft gave us two new operating systems. — One was a new version of Windows: the one for use with mouse and keyboard, the one whose desktop …
More:
Digits, Daring Fireball and CNET
Tweets: @fxshaw, @evelynrusli, @kfury, @fxshaw, @danieleran and @treestman
| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
The streak is over: Xbox 360 dethroned by PS3 after 32 months atop U.S. market — Thirty-two months, or 2-and-a-half years: That's how long Microsoft's Xbox 360 held the top spot in the U.S. console market, based on unit sales. But the streak ended as of September, as Sony's PlayStation 3 took … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's new iOS and Android Remote Desktop apps let you control a PC from a phone — Microsoft is providing a new way for iOS and Android users to access their Windows PCs today. A new Remote Desktop app is now available for both operating systems, letting you simply connect to a Windows PC and control it.| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Jeff Bezos's League of Shadows — Amazon can be a uniquely challenging place to work, with its question-mark emergencies and the occasionally volcanic outburst from the visionary chief executive. It's a place where promotions are hard-fought and sometimes painfully public.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Black Market Reloaded, Silk Road's main competitor, shuts down due to security breach — Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely — Black Market Reloaded, the digital black market that was the largest competitor to the recently-busted Silk Road, just announced it's closing and refunding users' money.
More:
Guardian, Slate, My Blog, SlashGear and Business Insider
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
First Magazine Advertisement for iPhone 5s Appears, Highlights Touch ID Sensor — Apple has started a new print advertising campaign for the iPhone 5s. The first spot, running on the back of this week's issue of The New Yorker, showcases the Touch ID-equipped home button of the new gold iPhone 5s.
More:
TechHive, TechEye, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, eWeek and App Advice
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung set-top box uses mediocre Smart TV software to compete with Roku, Apple TV — Samsung isn't known for its software, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its Smart TV interface, which offers access to video streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, and MLB.TV, as well as a selection of other utilities.
More:
Zatz Not Funny!, Gizmodo and Wired
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
More:
Business Wire and Gearburn
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Lenovo is considering buying Blackberry — Lenovo Group Ltd. is actively considering a bid for all of BlackBerry Ltd. , according to people familiar with the matter. — The Chinese personal-computer and smartphone maker has signed a “non-disclosure” agreement that enables it to look …
More:
Inquirer, TheStreet.com, DSLreports, TechCrunch, T3 News, Reuters, GigaOM, Tech in Asia, The Register, n4bb.com, Washington Wire, MoneyBeat, TechnoBuffalo, AllThingsD, Fortune, SlashGear, CNET, The Next Web, Electronista, Engadget and Computerworld. Tweets: @danprimack
| Zach Miners / ITworld.com: |
Programmers at Juniper — not Google or Facebook — rake in the most dough — Juniper's average base salary for coders is about $160,000 — What a lucrative profession coding can be — the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly US$160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey.
More:
Glassdoor Blog, GeekWire, VatorNews, I4U News, CNET, Tech Deals, Wired and VentureBeat
| Electronista: |
USPTO confirms all claims in key ‘Steve Jobs’ iPhone patent — Re-establishes foothold for Apple lawsuits — The US Patent and Trademark Office has finished a re-examination of Apple's so-called “Steve Jobs patent” and upheld all 20 claims as patentable, reports note.| FaryaabS / SamMobile: |
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE (GT-I9505) receives official Android 4.3 update — Samsung promised at its Mobile UNPACKED Episode 2 event that it will start rolling out Galaxy S4 updates in October and we are very pleased that Samsung has kept their promise. As Samsung has just started rolling out Android 4.3 … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD beats earnings targets as game console revenue kicks in — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Advanced Micro Devices has the next generation of home video game consoles to thanks for the good news in its earning report. — AMD reported financial results today that slightly beat Wall Street's expectations …
More:
PC World, Marketwired, The Register, eWeek, The Verge, GigaOM, ITworld.com and ZDNet
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
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.
Great Chat:
The case for AI optimism
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:00 AM ET, October 18, 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:
Frédéric Durand / What's on Netflix:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
San Francisco Chronicle, Digits and Online NewsHour
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
| Richard Pollock / Washington Examiner: |
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
More:
J.D. Power, BetaNews, Engadget, Cult of Mac, WMPoweruser, TUAW, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Yahoo! News, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, Electronista, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @mrinaldesai
| Ian Traynor / Guardian: |
More:
New York Times, FierceGovernmentIT, Politico and RT
Tweets: @glynmoody, @geekeconomist, @bendrath, @matthausk, @ewenmacaskill, @rich_d_rich, @_cypherpunks_ and @paul__johnson
| Eric Berman / Hulu Blog: |
More:
ITworld.com, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, The Verge and PC Magazine
Earlier Picks
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, SlashGear, MacRumors, Engadget, iMore, VatorNews, TUAW, AllFacebook, everythingiCafe and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More:
iPhone, BGR, Pocket-lint, The Register, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, AndroidHeadlines.com, PC Magazine and App Advice. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
More:
PR Newswire, IntoMobile, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet and Ubergizmo
| Ted Johnson / Variety: |