Techmeme: Acer Chromebox CXI distills C7 Chrome OS for desktops (Chris Davies/SlashGear)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

August 22, 2014, 11:15 AM

Top News

Reiji Murai / Reuters:

iPhone 6 display panel redesign delayed production, impact on launch uncertain — Exclusive: Apple iPhone 6 screen snag leaves supply chain scrambling — (Reuters) - Suppliers to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) are scrambling to get enough screens ready for the new iPhone 6 smartphone as the need …

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, iMore, Fortune, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, USA Today, Gigaom, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, BGR, Re/code, App Advice, SlashGear, TIME, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable, bizjournals, Geek.com, iLounge, MacDailyNews, MacNN, The Verge, iPhone and Fortune. Tweets: @nycjim

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Most smartphone users download zero apps per month — Mobile apps have skyrocketed in popularity and utility since Apple introduced the iPhone App Store in the summer of 2008. Apps now represent 52% of time spent with digital media in the US, according to comScore, up from 40% in early 2013.

More: RAIN News and TIME. Tweets: @chrismessina and @fromedome

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Majority Of Digital Media Consumption Now Takes Place In Mobile Apps — U.S. users are now spending the majority of their time consuming digital media within mobile applications, according to a new study released by comScore this morning. That means mobile apps, including the number 1 …

More: comScore, Inc., The Atlantic Online, Music Ally, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Forbes, Marketing Land, Talking New Media, Beyond Devices and Digital Music News. Tweets: @craigmod. See also Mediagazer

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Acer Chromebox CXI distills C7 Chrome OS for desktops — Acer has outed a new Chrome OS machine, the Chromebox CXI Series, bringing Google's cloud-centric platform to the desktop with prices kicking off at under $180. Rather than build on the Tegra K1-powered Chromebook 13, however …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, BetaNews, PC World, AndroidHeadlines.com, Electronista and Liliputing

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple removes Secret app from Brazilian App Store for not conforming with local laws — Following a recent ruling that Apple would have ten days to remove the anonymous social app Secret from its Brazilian App Store, Apple has complied with the order. The justification for the removal …

More: VentureBeat, MacRumors, Gigaom, iMore, Engadget, MacDailyNews, MacNN, The Next Web, App Advice, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider and iPhone Hacks. Thanks:@chancehmiller

Brian Fung / Washington Post:

A federal court rejects Aereo's request to argue it's a cable company — Aereo's seemingly last-ditch argument to save itself won't be given an airing in court, according to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. — Instead, if the shuttered streaming video company wants to keep fighting for its survival …

More: Bloomberg, TechSpot, BetaBoston, TechCrunch, Electronista, CNET and USA Today. See also Mediagazer

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise — Michael Daniel is the White House's cybersecurity coordinator, the man who “leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy” for the president. And in a recent interview with GovInfoSecurity …

More: GovInfoSecurity, Wall Street Journal, Techdirt, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear, The Register and ITProPortal

Tweets: @edfelten, @al3x, @ryan, @qthrul, @rickgivens, @dangillmor, @csoghoian, @markrussinovich, @grummz, @digiphile and @alex

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

Intuit releases redesigned Quicken 2015 for Mac, first new version in 7 years — Financial software firm Intuit on Thursday released Quicken 2015 for Mac, the first new version of the company's flagship personal finance and accounting suite to make its way to Apple's desktop platform in over seven years.

More: Macworld, Computerworld, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac and MacNN

Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Google to include temporary steering wheel and pedal system when testing autonomous cars in response to new California DMV rules — A Google Car Without a Steering Wheel? Not So Fast, California Says — Google caused a stir earlier this year when it unveiled a self-driving car without …

More: PC World, Guardian, Gizmodo, The Hill, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Connectedly, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Engadget, SlashGear and 9to5Google

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Holtzbrinck Ventures exchanges its stakes in 7 Rocket Internet startups for a direct 2.5% stake in the incubator itself — There we go again: German tech startup incubator Rocket Internet has announced yet another new investor, as its longtime partner in crime Holtzbrinck Ventures is receiving a 2.5% stake.

More: TechCrunch, Rocket Internet press releases, PE Hub Blog, Webrazzi and Tnooz

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a time — By now, you might have heard that Atlantic Media's Andrew Golis is incubating a small social network inside the company. Golis came to Atlantic Media as entrepreneur-in-residence a little over a year ago …

Tweets: @yingworld, @laura_warne, @jaredbkeller, @jeremymbarr, @nadinegoff and @agolis. See also Mediagazer

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:

Mobile apps could be abused to make expensive phone calls — A security precaution skipped in mobile applications such as Facebook's Messenger could be abused to make an expensive phone call at a victim's expense, a developer contends. — Phone numbers often appear as links on a mobile device.

More: algorithm.dk, Gizmodo and Neowin

Tweets: @ashk4n, @j0hnnyxm4s, @neculaesei and @ashk4n

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Wikipedia blocks edits from Congressional IP address again after edits from “obvious transphobe” — ‘Orange is the New Black’ fight sparks new House Wikipedia ban — For the third time this summer, computers in the House have been blocked from editing Wikipedia due to a string of controversial edits.

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, The Week Magazine, The A.V. Club, Mashable, VentureBeat, The Raw Story, PandoDaily, Styleite and Mediaite. Tweets: @piper. See also Mediagazer

Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

Facebook Rolls Out Analytics For App Links, Says 3 Billion URLs Have Been Enabled — The open-source effort that aims to make the mobile web less frustrating for users is gaining momentum. Developers will now be able to measure results better. — Facebook's effort to make the mobile web less frustrating is gaining momentum.

More: App Links, AllFacebook, The Next Web, Facebook Developers, ZDNet, ReadWrite, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, WebProNews, eWeek and Inside Facebook

Malathi Nayak / Reuters:

Ouya partners with Xiaomi to bring its games to the Chinese smartphone maker's streaming boxes and smart TVs — Exclusive: Ouya scores Xiaomi partnership to take games to China — (Reuters) - U.S video game service Ouya is turning to Asia to capture the growth that has eluded the startup on its own home turf.

More: Tech in Asia, GamesIndustry.biz, The Next Web, TechSpot, CNET, SlashGear, Engadget, Develop Feed, Gamasutra and Android Central

Allie Jones / Gawker:

After Twitter suspensions, ISIS moves to decentralized Diaspora to avoid censorship — ISIS Finally Finds a Social Network That Can't Suspend Their Accounts — After ISIS militants and supporters disseminated video and images of James Foley's brutal beheading on Tuesday …

More: BBC, PC Magazine, The diaspora* blog, Guardian, Tech Times, The Register, Christian Science Monitor, Business Insider, ITProPortal, PC Pro, VPN Creative, Channel 4, RYOT News and ABC News. See also Mediagazer

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

FDA approves AliveCor's heart arrhythmia-detecting app algorithm — Above: AliveCor's ECG app. — While the step counters and run tracker apps of the world get most of the attention, a growing number of apps in the marketplace are serving serious clinical needs.

More: Engadget, empr.com, Computerworld, mobihealthnews, The Medical News and The Daily Dot. Tweets: @rabois

Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

Zoosk debuts Photo Verification on iOS to confirm authenticity of profile photos — This Dating Site Is Teaching the Internet an Important Lesson About Anonymity — Online dating site Zoosk is rolling out a new feature that lets users verify the authenticity of profile pictures.

More: Zoosk, PC Magazine and AskMen

NBC News:

Flappy Bird creator launches Swing Copters, available for iPhone and Android, for free — ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen Launches New Game ‘Swing Copters’ - NBC News — The creator of the ultra-difficult game sensation, “Flappy Bird,” has released a new title — and believe it or not, it's even harder.

More: BGR, NDTV Gadgets, Develop Feed, Tech2, Know Your Mobile, Rolling Stone, The Next Web and Gotta Be Mobile

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

There are 18,796 distinct Android devices, according to OpenSignal's latest fragmentation report — The much-maligned Android fragmentation problem has blighted the mobile operating system for years, though Google has been steadily taking corrective measures in recent times. The issue?

More: OpenSignal, Guardian, AppleInsider, BGR, Ubergizmo, Inquirer, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Softpedia News, Greenbot, Droid Life, Quartz, SlashGear, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Pocketnow and Android Central

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.

Zoho:

Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.

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.

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.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Invest Like the Best:

Ramtin Naimi on the State of Venture Investing

The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.

Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.

The Upstarts Podcast:

How Ramp Built A $60B AI Product Factory Off A Corporate Card | Co-CEO Eric Glyman

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:

Would you let a robot do it?

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.

Training Data:

A Model For Everyone: How Ronak From Trajectory Is Building Products For Continual Learning

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.

Big Technology Podcast:

Can AI Keep Going After The Democrats' Big Win? — With Teddy Schleifer

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:

Crypto's Biggest Heist Ever + The Spy Who Loved Nvidia + Hacktober's Unsolved Mysteries

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:15 AM ET, August 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.