|
January 3, 2014, 5:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel plans a CES coup: Android and Windows in the same computer — Dual OS could dilute Windows dominance, if Microsoft doesn't kill it first — The PC industry isn't doing so well. Sales have dramatically slumped, despite the industry's efforts to tempt consumers with Windows 8 tablets and transforming touchscreen laptops.
More:
Examiner, VentureBeat, Gigaom, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo and Phandroid
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @reckless, @jbrodkin and @tomwarren
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Andreessen: Bubble Believers 'Don't Know What They're Talking About' — Venture Capitalist Discusses the Current State of Tech Investing — In a 2011 essay in The Wall Street Journal, venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted that software companies are …
More:
Business Insider, bizjournals and Valleywag
| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
A Tablet for Children That Comes With Its Own Penguins — GLENDALE, Calif. — DreamWorks Animation first captivated children in movie theaters. Then it branched into TV, piping cartoons based on hits like “Madagascar” and “How to Train Your Dragon” into homes through outlets like Nickelodeon and Netflix.
More:
The Verge, PC Magazine, Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TechSpot, VatorNews, Cult of Mac, TheStreet.com, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, 9to5Google and Electronista. Tweets: @peterlattman. See also Mediagazer
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Acer unveils two new sub-$200 Android tablets, a $1099 desktop, and an updated C720 Chromebook — Acer has unveiled several new Android-based devices that will be on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. — In particular, the company announced the debut of two new tablets.
More:
Marketwired, Engadget, BetaNews, BetaNews, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, eWeek, Gigaom, Engadget, 9to5Google, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, PC World, Ars Technica, Computerworld, OStatic blogs, Yahoo! News, CNET, CNET, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, Inquirer, Gigaom, TechSpot, Geeky Gadgets, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista and Softpedia News
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Sports Gets iOS 7 Redesign, Awesome Gif Creation Tool For Sharing 'Big 4′ Sports Moments — Yahoo Sports gets a fantastic looking redesign today for iOS 7, and gains a slick new feature called ‘Loops’. Loops allows you to skim through a game, pick a short segment and create …
More:
Yahoo Sports, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and The Verge
| Scott Stump / Today: |
Snapchat CEO: ‘We thought we had done enough’ to prevent hack — Just days before Snapchat was hacked for the private account information of millions of users, a security company warned that the popular photo messaging app was vulnerable. Nonetheless, Snapchat's CEO thought the company …
More:
Fortune, Bram Cohen, Re/code and Reuters
| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More:
Help Net Security, Naked Security, Inside Mobile Apps, PC Magazine, Threatpost, Forbes, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, The Switch, Geeky Gadgets, Digits, bizjournals, NYT Bits, USA Today, Techie News, Forbes, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Daily Dot, Guardian, ITworld.com, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, NBC News Technology, iPhone in Canada Blog, ReadWrite, Re/code, Android Beat, Mashable, SlashGear, Engadget, San Francisco Chronicle, VentureBeat and Valleywag
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @robpegoraro, @nitashatiku, @jonseff, @panzer, @stevekovach, @violetblue and @youranonnews
| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Vine Sprouts Its 6-Second Mayhem on the Web — Vine, Twitter's looping 6-second video app, is making the leap from mobile to the webtoday. — Unlike some mobile services like Instagram, Vine's web existence isn't just a pretty way to view your Vines in a browser.
More:
The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, CNET, WebProNews and iClarified. Thanks:@redgirlsays. See also Mediagazer
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
BlackBerry Sues Ryan Seacrest's Smartphone Keyboard Startup — BlackBerry, the struggling mobile device maker, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Typo Products, the startup co-founded by Ryan Seacrest that has developed a smartphone keyboard attachment.
More:
Marketwired, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @joshconstine
| John Siracusa / Hypercritical: |
Apple's 2013 Scorecard — At the beginning of last year, I posted a list of things Apple can and should do during 2013. It's time to settle up. Because I'm feeling scholastic, I'll give a letter grade to each item. — Ship OS X 10.9 and iOS 7. Done and done, with only a few minor bumps in the road.
| Jon Phillips / PC World: |
Wearable tech at CES 2014: Prepare your body parts for an onslaught of options — Wearable technology. It's an exploding product category in desperate need of a category-defining product. And now, with the Consumer Electronics Show upon us, we get to see whether some company, any company …
More:
Pebble, Glass Almanac, CNET, The Verge, Hyundai Newsroom, Gigaom, The Verge, Businessweek, MacRumors, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Next Web, MAKE, Business Insider, CNN, Android Central, The Switch, PadGadget, Imaging Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, pocketnow.com, CITEworld, Gigaom, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, iMore, VentureBeat, Gigaom, PhoneArena, AndroidHeadlines.com, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, WhatsYourTech.ca, iLounge, Electronista, ZDNet, down the avenue, PSFK, Cable Tech Talk and Light Reading. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
AT&T Hits Back at T-Mobile with Up to $450 in Credits for Switchers — Over the past year, T-Mobile US has been shaking up the U.S. carrier market with its “Un-carrier” plans, the addition of the iPhone to its device lineup, and a frequent device upgrade program, enticing several …
More:
AT&T, Re/code, BGR, AppleInsider, NYT Bits, Reuters, AndroidHeadlines.com, Ars Technica, iMore, TmoNews, Android Central, iDownloadBlog.com, AndroidGuys, Gigaom, VentureBeat, MobileBurn.com, ZDNet, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, The Verge, Electronista, DSLreports and Engadget. Tweets: @zpower
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Multiple gaming platforms hit with apparent DDoS attacks — The servers for Steam, Origin, Battle.net, and League of Legends were brought down temporarily overnight by apparent DDoS attacks that seem to be related to a swatting attack on an individual known for streaming games.
More:
Computerworld, Polygon, Ubergizmo, Kotaku, Motherboard, Guardian, Kotaku, The Escapist and Techie News
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.
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:
Ask an Expert: How to effectively recover stuck TDS refunds with reduced TDS reconciliation time — The 26AS/Form 168 gets updated quarterly and often gets checked only during the time of ITR filing.
Ask an Expert: How to effectively recover stuck TDS refunds with reduced TDS reconciliation time — The 26AS/Form 168 gets updated quarterly and often gets checked only during the time of ITR filing.
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
Training Data:
Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Andrew Huberman - The Frontier of Neurotechnology
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Big Technology Podcast:
Who Wins The AI Assistant Wars? + Why Didn't Google Build Muse?
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.
Sources:
Reflection's founders on building a DeepSeek of the West
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Grit:
How Vercel Is Rethinking Go-to-Market With AI | COO Jeanne Grosser
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT: We're entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:10 PM ET, January 3, 2014.
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
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:Michael Schneider / Variety:
New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Tweets: @howardlindzon and @semil
| Gary Cameron / Reuters: |
| Stanley Carvalho / Reuters: |
More:
TBR's Biz Blog and CNET
| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
More:
GitHub, VentureBeat, Information Arbitrage and VentureBeat
| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
More:
textually.org
| Primavera De Filippi / Wired: |
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
More:
Laptoping, Softpedia News, PC World, GadgetGuide4U, Electronista, LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear and WinBeta
Earlier Picks
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
More:
Softpedia News, pocketnow.com, BetaNews, GSM Insider and The Next Web
| Washington Post: |
More:
Wired, The Register, SiliconBeat, WebProNews, Computerworld, Reuters, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Telegraph, Techdirt, Gizmodo, Salon, The Switch, Nextgov, PandoDaily, Daily Dot, ExtremeTech, Inquirer, Gawker, BGR, TechEye, TechSpot, Business Insider, The Drum, bizjournals, Mashable, BBC, Ars Technica, Gigaom, Techie News, Softpedia News, InfoWorld, The Next Web, Washington Post, The Verge, Mashable, SlashGear, TheHill, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, RT and LeakSource
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Tweets: @jowyang, @pandodaily and @jlllow
| Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: |
More:
Bloomberg, BBC, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times, Re/code, NEWS.com.au, SocialTimes, Business Insider, Businessweek, Graham Cluley, Yahoo! News, AllFacebook, The Snitch, Pulse 2.0, Marketing Pilgrim, ResearchBuzz, Marketing Land, Inquirer, ZDNet, WebProNews, Softpedia News, NBC Bay Area, Daily Dot, SiliconANGLE, Gigaom, Techie News, PC Advisor, bizjournals, The Next Web and The Register