|
February 23, 2014, 2:55 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 — A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I've been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful platform. Recently my job changed to focus …
More:
WMPoweruser, AnandTech, BetaNews, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, CITEworld, GeekWire, Computerworld, SuperSite for Windows, Windows Phone Central, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, Pocketnow, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile, LiveSino, MobileSyrup.com and ReadWrite. Tweets: @inafried. Thanks:@brandonleblanc
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Microsoft announces new Windows Phone partners, teases update to loosen hardware requirements, support software face buttons, dual-SIM, app install on SD — Next Windows Phone update will allow for more affordable devices — Microsoft wants Windows Phone to go global in an even bigger way.
More:
CITEworld, The Verge, Electronista and Wpxbox
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces spring update for Windows 8.1 that will improve mouse and keyboard experience, enable lower cost hardware — Microsoft announces ‘spring’ update for Windows 8.1 — Microsoft is at Mobile World Congress today, and the company is announcing its first significant update to Windows 8.1.
More:
Engadget, Re/code, Engadget, Associated Press, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, LiveSino, Phones Review, Softpedia News, UnleashThePhones, Neowin, TechCrunch, WinBeta, CNET, Pocket-lint, I4U News, ZDNet and TechSpot
Tweets: @mobilenewsmag, @saschasegan, @martyn_williams and @mrseb
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
More:
CNET, FierceWireless and WMPoweruser
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei announces TalkBand B1 smart watch with 1.4 inch flexible OLED display and removable earpiece — Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls — Huawei hasn't exactly been keeping quiet about its very own wearable device, so today's announcement of its TalkBand B1 should be no surprise to anyone.| Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
More:
The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, International Business Times, Pocket-lint and Pocket-lint
| Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: |
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix and Comcast Solve Their Web Traffic Problem With a Long-Term Deal — Comcast and Netflix have hammered out a deal designed to remove a bottleneck slowing the video service's streams for the cable company's broadband customers. — The deal focuses on the intersection between …
More:
Comcast, CNET, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear and PC Magazine
See also Mediagazer
| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless. — Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
More:
The Verge, New Yorker and Daring Fireball
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
| Yasha Levine / PandoDaily: |
Tweets: @nikcub
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches coming in April with Tizen OS and better battery life — Even in an industry known for evolving at an impossibly quick pace, it's rare for a product to be replaced in just five months. If you've read our review of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, however …
More:
Samsung Mobile Press, CNET, NYT Bits, TechHive, Tech Trader Daily, Agence France Presse, Gizmodo, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Phones Review, iMore, The Verge, Guardian, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, NEWS.com.au, CNET, Android Central, Pocket-lint, LAPTOP Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk and Re/code
Tweets: @reckless, @zpower, @reckless, @reckless, @stevekovach and @david_connell
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's Partners Launch New Firefox OS Phones As It Looks To Expand To New Markets In 2014 — Just ahead of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla today announced a number of new Firefox OS smartphones from partners like ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel, as well as a $25 reference design from Spreadtrum.
More:
Computerworld, ReadWrite, The Verge, The Next Web, The Mozilla Blog, Engadget, CNET, Engadget and The Mozilla Blog
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
More:
Ars Technica, BBC, Engadget, CNET, EE Times, Android Central and The Mozilla Blog
| Eric Franklin / CNET: |
Lenovo tries again with the Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ with improved specs, coming in April for $349 (hands-on) — CNET Editors' Take — The best thing about the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 were their impressively long-lasting batteries. As for performance and value, well let's …
More:
PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Engadget, Android Central, SlashGear and Android Community
| Alex Colon / Gigaom: |
HP unveils business-focused ElitePad and ProPad tablets, TX1 POS system — HP is showing off two new tablets, as well as a new point-of-sale retail system, ahead of Mobile World Congress. Both the ElitePad and ProPad tablets feature Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and 64-bit compatibility for a focus on business …
More:
The Verge, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, PC World and Engadget
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Google, LG working on smartwatch to be unveiled in June — BARCELONA, Spain—Google and LG are about to jump into the smartwatch game together. — Google is set to unveil plans for its smartwatch-centric operating system in March, likely in a blog post, according to a person familiar with its plans.
More:
TechCrunch, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Gizmorati, NDTV Gadgets, SlashGear, Droid Report, I4U News, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com …, Examiner and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @evleaks
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera Launches Its Max Data-Savings App For Android — About a week ago, Opera teased its new Max data-savings app for Android and allowed users to pre-register. Starting today, Opera will roll out Max to these pre-registered Android users in the U.S. on a first-come, first-served bases.| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Apple promises fix “very soon” for Macs with failed encryption — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Saturday it would issue a software update “very soon” to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email, financial information and other sensitive data from Mac computers.
More:
Gizmodo, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Computerworld, iMore, SlashGear, The Register, PBS, MacRumors, The Register and Wired. Tweets: @grittygrease
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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
Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
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:
Meta's Muse Revival, Frontier AI Under Threat, The Rise Of Dopamine Sites
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
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.
Great Chat:
Doomers at Dreamforce
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 2:55 PM ET, February 23, 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
Deadline:John Koblin / New York Times:
Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
More:
LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, Digits, Gizmodo, The Verge, Technology Personalized and TechnoBuffalo
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
More:
CraveOnline, Guardian, Electronista, VG247, GameSpot, NDTV Gadgets and Digits