|
November 8, 2013, 11:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Your new Xbox One won't do much without the day one patch — Imagine it's November 22nd: You've got your shiny new Xbox One from the local games merchant, you've got it home, and it's time to video game. Aw shucks, the internet is out! But that's okay, as you've got yourself a physical game disc ready to go.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
More:
Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, CNET, GeekWire, BetaNews, Geekosystem, NBCNews, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Inquirer, TechCrunch and Engadget. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
More:
Xbox Wire, The Verge, GamingBolt.com, Ars Technica, GeekWire, Gigaom, Windows Phone Central, Gizmodo, WinBeta, PC Magazine, WebProNews, GamesIndustry International, Examiner, Windows Phone Central, WebProNews, TechHive, Inquirer, SlashGear, Softpedia News, WindowsObserver.com and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop may sell Xbox biz, kill Bing, focus on cross-platform Office — Microsoft CEO Candidate Elop Said to Mull Windows Shift — Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive officer, would consider breaking …
More:
CITEworld, ParisLemon, The Tech Report, Search Engine Land, MacRumors, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, The Verge, GamesIndustry International, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Byteoid, TechSpot, destructoid, LiveSide.net, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gigaom Search, iDownloadBlog.com, BetaNews, Cinema Blend Games, iPhone Hacks, Forbes, Technology Advice, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, My Nokia Blog, GeekWire, PC Magazine, ValueWalk, Electronista, Digital Trends, Lastest ITProPortal news, Daring Fireball, Inquirer, GamePolitics blogs, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Gigaom, WMPoweruser, Examiner, pocketnow.com, iPhone, VentureBeat, Engadget, VG247 and WebProNews
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @stevenlevy, @fxshaw, @daiwaka, @dewitt, @dannysullivan and @llsethj
Thanks:@eghosao| Reuters: |
Exclusive: BlackBerry board rejected proposals to break up company - sources — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd's board does not believe a break-up of the Canadian smartphone maker is currently in its best interests, even though Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, among others … | Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim asks: ‘Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?’ — YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has shared his thoughts on the new Google+ commenting system that was introduced to the video-sharing site earlier this week. In short, he's not very impressed.
More:
Guardian, The Verge, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Valleywag, Daily Dot, Boing Boing, WebProNews, Business Insider, VentureBeat and Techdirt. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| TechCrunch: |
Intel Has Acquired Kno, Will Push Further Into The Education Content Market With Interactive Textbooks — We had a tip about, and have now confirmed, Intel's latest acquisition: Kno, the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
“Because Marissa Said So” — Yahoos Bristle at Mayer's QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs” — According to a multitude of top-ranking posts on an anonymous internal message board used by Yahoo to vent their frustrations to top staff, employees there are becoming increasingly upset …
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @carnage4life, @sai and @fmanjoo
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Boost Mobile starts selling the iPhone 5s and 5c today for $200 off for new customers, starting at $349 unsubsidized — From 9to5Toys.com: — As we've noted on a few occasions, Sprint pre-paid subsidiaryBoost Mobile is now carrying the iPhone for the first time in its history.| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Hot tech start-up Box picks banks for '14 IPO - sources — (Reuters) - Data storage company Box, one of the most highly anticipated IPO candidates in Silicon Valley, has selected banks to lead a proposed initial public offering that could come in the first half of 2014, according to three people familiar with the matter.
More:
TechCrunch, AllThingsD, ZDNet and bizjournals
| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords - sources — (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.
More:
eWeek, The Verge, Security Watch, Computerworld, Techdirt, CNET, Gawker, Engadget, Daily Dot, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Network World, ValueWalk, Softpedia News, TheHill, dailywireless.org and Mashable
Tweets: @daveedgr, @propublica, @thomas_drake1, @glynmoody and @zeynep
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Why Apple Bought $578M Worth Of Sapphire In Advance — Apple is building a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will be used by GT Advanced Technologies to make sapphire crystals for use in its products. Apple currently uses sapphire in its home buttons and camera lens covers …
More:
iPhone Hacks, TUAW, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and iClarified. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Gogo Text & Talk lets you send texts and make calls in-flight, using your own phone number (hands-on) — It's not as if in-flight calling is a novel idea: Numerous airlines have given it a shot, and the US government has emphatically put the kibosh on it. Until now, however … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Launches An “Alpha” Testing Program On Android, Invites Users To Give Feedback And Collaborate Directly — In August, Twitter launched a beta testing program on Android which allows users to opt-in to try out early versions of the Twitter application and other unreleased features … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Panasonic's 20-inch 4K ‘tablet’ comes to the US in January for $6,000 — We got our first peek at Panasonic's 4K Toughpad tablet last January at CES, and now the company says it will go on sale in the US about a year later, for $5,999. Panasonic announced two devices for Europe …
More:
Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET and Electronista
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 11:45 PM ET, November 8, 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:Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Daniel Miller / Politico:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
| Gautham Nagesh / Digits: |
More:
The Verge, pocketnow.com and Phone Scoop
| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
More:
CNET, CNET and 9to5Google
| Jonathan Marino / The Deal Pipeline: |
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Earlier Picks
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
More:
VentureBeat, ABC, Geek.com, Business Insider, Techie News, The Verge, Threatpost, ValueWalk, Guardian, Mashable, PC World, Inquirer, Help Net Security, The Age, RT, SC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, The Register and CoinDesk
| Naval Ravikant / Startup Boy: |
More:
Gigaom and PandoDaily. Tweets: @fdestin, @ricardogarciaam, @mightytext, @garyfung and @danprimack
| Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security: |
| Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid: |
More:
PRWeb, 9to5Google, Engadget, Reuters, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Glass Almanac, TechnoBuffalo, Google+, SlashGear, Tom's Hardware Guide, Android Central, Android Police and 9to5Google. Tweets: @brendankdaly
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |