|
March 22, 2014, 2:00 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ed Christman / Billboard: |
Apple explores Spotify-like streaming service, iTunes app for Android as downloads decline — Apple Mulls Launching Spotify Rival, Android App as Downloads Decline (Sources) — The iPhone maker explores multi-pronged strategy to shore up double-digit drops in iTunes downloads, according to IFPI and RIAA data.
More:
The Verge, Gigaom, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacNN, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Digital Music News, Cult of Mac, Android Central, everythingiCafe, VentureBreak, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, iMore, Good E-Reader, Pocketnow, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Business Insider Australia, App Advice, SeekingAlpha.com, MobileSyrup.com and iLounge
Tweets: @markgurman, @stevekovach and @parislemon
See also Mediagazer| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
About That Time Google Spied On My Gmail — I'm reading about how Microsoft read a blogger's Hotmail (or other Microsoft hosted email) to determine who leaked Microsoft information to that blogger. Microsoft's response is pathetic, stating that “the privacy of our customers is incredibly important to us” …
| John Frank / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft says Hotmail case met standard for a court order, adds new safeguards to policy — Strengthening our policies for investigations — Deputy General Counsel & Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — We believe that Outlook and Hotmail email are and should be private.
More:
Guardian, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Security Watch, Techdirt, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, WinBeta, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, The Verge, Gigaom, InfoWorld, CNNMoney.com, Business Cloud News, Business Insider, Business Insider Australia, ITworld.com, GeekWire, New York Times, Inquirer, The Tech Report, PC Magazine, Wired.co.uk, VentureBeat, Re/code, Help Net Security and Washington Post
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @arrington, @shiraovide, @csoghoian, @dsilverman and @bbcrorycj
Thanks:@fxshaw| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Yahoo, Google and Apple also claim right to read user emails — Like Microsoft, other webmail giants all reserve the right to read user emails, if ‘deemed necessary’ — Microsoft is not unique in claiming the right to read users' emails - Apple, Yahoo and Google all reserve that right as well, the Guardian has determined.
More:
The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Valleywag, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, TheDomains.com and Daily Dot. Thanks:@charlesarthur
| Jim Cicconi / AT&T Public Policy Blog: |
AT&T: costs caused by Netflix's growth should not be borne by all broadband subscribers — Who Should Pay for Netflix? — I saw Reed Hasting's blog yesterday from Netflix asserting in rather dramatic fashion (with diagrams) that ISPs should build facilities (he said provide …
More:
Gigaom, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Register, Computerworld, BGR, SiliconBeat, CNNMoney.com, BetaNews, ZDNet, DSLreports, SlashGear, Digital Trends, HotHardware.com News, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, Electronista, Inquirer, SeekingAlpha.com, Businessweek, Nextgov, PC Magazine, I4U News, VatorNews, WebProNews, Forbes, Softpedia News, Boing Boing, BBC, bizjournals, Rapid TV News and TIME
Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @notpatrick, @zseward, @jbflint and @richbtig
See also Mediagazer| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter experimenting with showing how many people saw your tweets — How many people saw your last tweet? A new Twitter experiment is answering that question for some users, adding the number of views a tweet has received underneath every post. Twitter's advertising products … | Justin Sink / The Hill: |
Obama meets with CEOs of Facebook, Netflix, Dropbox, Box, and others over spy reforms — Obama's move to relieve snooping fears — President Obama and senior administration officials huddled with top technology executives Friday to discuss progress on the president's proposed reforms …
More:
Mercury News, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Politico, 9to5Google, TIME, Associated Press and Business Insider
| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
More:
Electronic Frontier Foundation, bizjournals and NPR
Tweets: @benwizner, @digiphile and @clairecm
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Twitter pulling Music app from App Store today, will shutdown service April 18th — Twitter's Music app is dead, final shutdown scheduled for April 18th — It's been months since reports suggested Twitter would shut down its Music app, but now it's actually happening.| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Ashton Kutcher join $40M investment round of AI firm Vicarious — Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious — Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Ashton Kutcher portrayed Apple founder Steve Jobs in a movie.
More:
Gigaom, Re/code, VentureBeat, Wired, SiliconBeat, AllFacebook, Guardian, bizjournals, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Business Insider Australia, Business 2 Community, CNET and WebProNews
Tweets: @johnlegere and @pauldaugh
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
iPad's longer replacement cycle mirrors Macs, TVs more than it does iPhones — iPad replacement cycle: Like an iPhone? Mac? Or (worse still) TV? — How customers buy and use iPads affects the device's long-term prospects, says CIRP. — FORTUNE — For Apple (AAPL) …
More:
MacRumors, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, SeekingAlpha.com, MacNN and App Advice
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Walmart, Best Buy drop Xbox One Titanfall bundle to $450, $50 below console launch price — Another Price Cut for the Xbox One — SEATTLE — Sony's pricing advantage over Microsoft for the latest generation of game consoles didn't last long. — On Friday, Walmart and Best Buy began offering …
More:
BGR, GeekWire, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, Windows Phone Central, PC World, Engadget, CNET, WinBeta, GameSpot, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine and Forbes
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Twitter's Sara Haider to join Secret as Android lead, VP of Analytics plans departure as well — More Departures at Twitter as VP of Analytics Exits, Android Lead Leaves for Secret — Looks like plenty more birds are flying Twitter's coop. — Sara Haider, a mobile engineer and technical lead … 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.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Agentic AI in data & analytics: The next evolution of business intelligence — In a recent conversation, Clarence Rozario, Business Head - Zoho BI Suite, joined Ravit Jain on The Ravit Show to discuss how Agentic AI …
Agentic AI in data & analytics: The next evolution of business intelligence — In a recent conversation, Clarence Rozario, Business Head - Zoho BI Suite, joined Ravit Jain on The Ravit Show to discuss how Agentic AI …
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
Big Technology Podcast:
Kimi K3 & AI's Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI's Partner Trouble
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.
Great Chat:
Never follow your heroes (on X)
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.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' + HatGPT
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Pigment's Eléonore Crespo: Building France's Next Unicorn With AI Agents And Tom Cruise
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.
Access:
This AI will push back if you're rude to it
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:00 AM ET, March 22, 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:Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
More:
SiliconBeat, bizjournals and iClarified
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
More:
The Rhapsody Blog, VentureBeat, The Verge and hypebot
| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
More:
App Advice
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
More:
Businessweek, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN and App Advice
Earlier Picks
| Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
More:
Electronista, Ars Technica, New Zealand Herald, Bloomberg, PC World, Associated Press and TorrentFreak. Tweets: @kimdotcom. See also Mediagazer
| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
More:
Guardian, 9to5Google, Washington Post, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Forbes, Electronic Frontier Foundation, CNET, The Switch, Reuters, Re/code, I4U News, VentureBeat, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, Techdirt, Tech.eu, bizjournals, The Next Web, Softpedia News, The Loop, TechPresident, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Geeky Gadgets and Mashable
Tweets: @policy, @policy, @findikkahve, @idontcarebeyb, @verge and @johnpaczkowski
See also Mediagazer