Techmeme: Airbnb to begin collecting a 14% transient occupancy tax in San Francisco October 1 (Liz Gannes/Re/code)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

September 17, 2014, 9:40 PM

Top News

Businessweek:

Tim Cook Interview: The iPhone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture — Steve Jobs's office remains Steve Jobs's office. After his death in 2011, Tim Cook, his friend and successor as Apple (AAPL) chief executive officer, decided to leave the sparsely decorated room on the fourth floor of 1 Infinite Loop untouched.

More: AppleInsider, BGR, Patently Apple, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Valleywag, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iMore, iLounge, App Advice, WebProNews and MacNN

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @valleyhack, @nickbilton and @sapnam

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iOS 8 review: Apple empowers developers with Continuity, iCloud Drive, HealthKit, HomeKit, Pay — iOS 8, thoroughly reviewed — A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7. — “Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.”

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Developers warn iOS 8 users not to upgrade to iCloud Drive before OS X Yosemite release — With the public release of iOS 8 landing today ahead of the new iPhone models shipping on September 19, developers are warning users not to upgrade to Apple's new iCloud Drive feature just yet.

More: BGR, MacRumors, iMore, DISPLAYBLOG, Quartz, Mashable, Gotta Be Mobile, Laptop Mag, Cult of Mac, Business Insider and ReadWrite

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Releases iOS 8 With Continuity, Third Party Access to Keyboards/Touch ID, Family Sharing, and ‘Health’ App — Apple today released iOS 8 to the public, making the download available to all users who have an iPhone 4s or later, iPad 2 or later, 5th-generation iPod touch, or iPad mini.

More: AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, InvestorPlace, Touch Arcade, MacDailyNews and iMore

Joseph Keller / iMore:

1Password 5 for iPhone and iPad goes freemium, brings iOS 8 Touch ID, action extension support

More: Agile Blog, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, Touch Arcade, iClarified, Lifehacker, MacStories, Cult of Mac, BGR, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web and 9to5Mac

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple removes HealthKit-compatible apps from App Store due to bug on their end, says issue will be resolved later this month

More: MacRumors, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, The Verge, ReadWrite, iMore, The Register, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, AppleInsider and Gizmodo

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn struggles with iPhone 6 demand despite 200K workers making 540K phones/day — Foxconn Struggles to Meet New iPhone Demand — Apple fans may have to wait for weeks to get the new iPhones as Apple's major assembler Foxconn appears to be struggling to boost its production to meet strong demand.

More: 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, AppleTell, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, iPhone, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, BGR, iMore, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, Electronista and Business Insider. Tweets: @cdhowe

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iPhone 6 better in every way: display, performance, photos, videos, battery life, and network speed — One More Thing — Going through my notes, I realized that I neglected to write about pricing and storage tiers in my iPhones 6 review. I really wanted to, and blame exhaustion for omitting it.

More: The Verge, Forbes, BGR, Softpedia News, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, eWeek, ongoing by Tim Bray, iPhone in Canada Blog, Telegraph, ParisLemon, MacRumors, TechRadar.com, Business Insider, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, WebProNews, The Independent, T3 and Globe and Mail

Tweets: @panzer and @stevesi

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Tech:

iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus: Which Apple Phone Should You Buy?

More: Wall Street Journal

Jason Snell / Six Colors:

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus: A tale of scale

More: The Verge, Re/code, T3, Fast Company, 9to5Mac and Mashable. Tweets: @reppep

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Amazon unveils six new tablets and e-readers, moving even further into hardware — The new Kindle Fire HD 6 and Kindle Fire HD 7, two of the six new devices Amazon debuted Sept. 17. (Courtesy of Amazon.) — Amazon announced six new tablets and e-readers on Wednesday …

Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

Amazon Has New Kindle Fire Tablets, And They Start At A Dirt-Cheap $99

More: TechCrunch, New York Times, Gizmodo, USA Today, Re/code, The Verge, The Next Web, The Huffington Post and Tom's Guide

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Airbnb to begin collecting a 14% transient occupancy tax in San Francisco October 1 — Airbnb Will Collect Taxes in San Francisco Starting Next Month — Airbnb will collect taxes from its hosts and and remit them to its hometown of San Francisco starting October 1, the company said today.

More: San Francisco Chronicle, The Technology Chronicles, Gigaom, GeekWire, TechCrunch, SFist and CNET

Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:

Peter Thiel: Twitter execs probably smoke pot, Uber most ethically challenged company — Peter Thiel on Twitter and pot, Google, Uber and gay CEOs — Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, provides his play on social media company Twitter. — Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel …

More: Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Technology Chronicles, Re/code, TechCrunch, Salon, SiliconBeat, Forbes and Mashable

Tweets: @dickc, @dannysullivan, @goldman, @bijan and @msuster

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Verizon Wireless plans to launch Wi-Fi calling in mid-2015 — Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) plans to introduce Wi-Fi calling in the middle of next year but does not see an urgent need for it, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo. — Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media …

More: DSLreports, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Windows Phone Central, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Droid Life and Android and Me. Tweets: @jbrodkin

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users — Thanks to a bug in the Android Browser, your cookies aren't safe. — Surian Soosay — A bug quietly reported on September 1 appears to have grave implications for Android users. Android Browser, the open source …

More: Metasploit, Forbes, Infosecurity Magazine, IT Business Edge, SC Magazine, TechSpot, Blue's News, The Register, Help Net Security, Computerworld and WMPoweruser

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Former Qualcomm executive Dennis Kish replaces Milo Medin as head of Google Fiber — Former Qualcomm Exec Named Head of Google Fiber — Google Fiber has a new boss, the latest sign that the search giant is serious about delivering high-speed Internet service.

More: Light Reading, 9to5Google, Engadget, Gigaom, Softpedia News, ZDNet and DSLreports

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV updated w/ Beats Music channel, refreshed design, Family Sharing, & iCloud Photos — In addition to shipping iOS 8 to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users today, Apple has released a software update to Apple TV (third-generation) users as well. As we previewed before …

More: AppleInsider, Digital Trends, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge and MacDailyNews

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Material design screenshots leaked for Google Play Store 5.0 update — An Exclusive Early Look At The Google Play Store's 5.0 Update — A couple of months ago, we shared an early look at an impending Play Store update that saw more “materialized” content listings, but the rest of the interface remained largely unchanged.

More: 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, AndroidOS.in and Engadget

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple to Require App-Specific Passwords For Third-Party Apps Accessing iCloud — Apple is now offering app-specific passwords for third-party apps that access iCloud, allowing users to generate unique one-time use passwords to sign into iCloud securely. In a support document …

More: Official Apple Support, DailyTech, SlashGear, TUAW, iLounge, BGR, AppleInsider and Ubergizmo

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Cloud storage company Hightail laying off about 100 people, half of its workforce, following Brad Garlinghouse's departure — Hightail Chops Workforce by Half in Wake of CEO's Ouster — Hightail, the cloud storage and file-sharing company formerly known as YouSendit …

More: bizjournals

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.

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.

Zoho:

The hidden tax of making employees search, switch, and repeat — Employees lose more time to digital friction than organizations often realize. Searching for information, switching between tools …

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.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast:

AI's third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI's product lead)

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:

Software's Epic Comeback, Meta's AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos

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:

Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final 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.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

The Weird, Big Business of Microdramas

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.

Training Data:

Parallel's Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents

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.

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:40 PM ET, September 17, 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.