|
June 20, 2014, 4:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's smartwatch likely to come in multiple sizes and designs, contain over ten sensors, including ones for health and fitness — Apple Plans Multiple Designs for Smartwatch — Wrist Device Will Include More Than 10 Sensors Including Ones to Track Fitness
More:
BGR, SiliconBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Ars Technica, Daring Fireball, Gigaom, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, PC World, AppleTell, PadGadget, Associated Press, It's a Gadget, Businessweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Fortune, EE Times, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, PC Pro, PC Magazine, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Wired, MacDailyNews, InvestorPlace, I4U News, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, MobileBurn.com, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, iPhone, The Tech Report, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, VatorNews, TechCrunch, Electronista, iMore, Business Insider, Inquirer, PhoneArena, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Verge, Engadget, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, POPSUGAR, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, Mashable, iLounge, everythingiCafe, TIME, App Advice, Reuters and CNET. Tweets: @mims
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple said to team up with pro athletes to test iWatch fitness capabilities — Apple has teamed up with some of the sports world's most notable professional athletes in order to test the upcoming “iWatch's” fitness capabilities in intense training environments, according to a source with knowledge of the testing.
More:
G 4 Games, BGR, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geeky Gadgets, MacDailyNews and GSMArena Blog. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@jordankahn
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Yo App Hacked By College Students — A Georgia Tech student, together with two of his room mates, claims to have hacked Yo, the Poke-like app which has set some Silicon Valley alight (though not others) in the last 48 hours. [See update below: Yo has confirmed it has been hacked].
More:
Valleywag, The Technology Chronicles, Business Insider, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Medium, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, TND - The Next Digit, iMore, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Slate, BBC, Washington Post, Redmond Pie, memeburn, SlashGear, Geek.com, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, TIME, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, CNET, The Verge, Consumerist, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW and TechHive
Tweets: @yoappstatus, @fraying and @samfbiddle
Thanks:@mikebutcher| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
The CEO Of Secret Told Us How You Can Hack Yo And Get Anyone's Phone Number In Just 3 Minutes — The super-simple messaging app Yo is on fire right now: It's No.4 in the App Store at the time of writing. We told you earlier that someone already hacked it, and the company has admitted … | Drake Bennett / Businessweek: |
Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of “Disruptive Innovation” — When The New Yorker this week published Harvard historian Jill Lepore's sharply written dismissal of “disruptive innovation,” it was an attack on one of the most widely cited and celebrated ideas in modern business.
More:
Business Insider, Gawker and Forbes
| Timothy B. Lee / Vox: |
House passes amendment to cut NSA's “backdoor search” funding; manufacturers can't be forced to install “backdoors” in products — The House just overwhelmingly voted to rein in the NSA — The House of Representatives just overwhelmingly voted to rein in the National Security Agency.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Path Looks To Combine Commerce And Messaging With TalkTo Acquisition, Release Of New ‘Talk’ App — It's been a rough year for private social networking app Path. The company has seen disappointing growth in many major markets, layoffs, and the departure of some key execs over the last 12 months.
More:
Path — Blog, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Verge, iMore, 9to5Google, The Next Web, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, Droid Life, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, App Advice, BetaBoston and Electronista. Tweets: @erickschonfeld. Thanks:@jordanrcrook
| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
Archos releases new iOS-controlled smart home suite with tablet, cameras & environmental sensors — Consumers looking for an self-installed, iOS-compatible “connected home” system now have a new option from electronics manufacturer Archos, as the company's new Smart Home system has hit virtual shelves … | Scot Finnie / Computerworld: |
After a 47 year run, Computerworld will publish its last print edition on June 23 — The continuing evolution of Computerworld — On June 23, we will publish the last print issue of Computerworld. — It was 47 years ago, almost to the day, that Computerworld's very first issue rolled off the presses: June 21, 1967.
More:
Technologizer, Engadget, TechSpot, BetaBoston and Ars Technica
Tweets: @loydcase, @anildash and @codinghorror
See also Mediagazer| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
32,000 servers using Supermicro motherboards broadcast admin password in plain text — At least 32,000 servers broadcast admin passwords in the clear, advisory warns — An alarming number of servers containing motherboards manufactured by Supermicro continue to expose administrator passwords despite …
More:
CARI.net Blog, SANS ISC, Inquirer, HOTforSecurity, Help Net Security, GadgeTell, The Register, Techie News and CSO Online. Tweets: @virusbtn
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
With Google Search on Android you can now launch music apps by tapping on a link to a song — Google's Search Engine Can Now Launch Your Favorite Music Apps, Turn On The Tunes — Google has taken another small step toward connecting its search engine with world of mobile apps … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Amazon Will Give Developers Up To $15,000 In Amazon Coins To Entice Users If They Update Apps For Fire Phone — Amazon is hoping the Fire Phone will be a hit with consumers despite the higher than expected price and AT&T exclusivity. To make its case, the retailer is looking to ensure …
More:
TechCrunch and Business Insider
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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
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:
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
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:
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
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.
Hard Fork:
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
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 Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
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.
Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
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.
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 4:35 PM ET, June 20, 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
Brian Stelter / CNN:Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
| Josh Kosman / New York Post: |
More:
Reuters, MobileBurn.com, Multichannel News, DSLreports and SeekingAlpha.com
| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
Chromium Blog, 9to5Google, ReadWrite, InfoQ and SlashGear
Earlier Picks
| Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
More:
Engadget, TechSpot, The Register, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Inquirer and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @mikko
| Evan Selleck / Android Beat: |
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
More:
Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, DSLreports, Network World, AndroidHeadlines.com, San Francisco Chronicle, 9to5Google, BGR and I4U News. Tweets: @monicapaolini. Thanks:@toddbishop