Techmeme: Apple told to pay $23.6M for infringing pager technology patents from the 1990s (Bloomberg)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

November 19, 2014, 1:40 AM

Top News

Shirley Sun / Facebook:

Facebook launches standalone Groups app for iOS and Android — Introducing the Facebook Groups App — People use Facebook Groups every day to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. — Today, we're introducing a new Facebook Groups app …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

With some 650M MAUs, Facebook gives Groups its own app with more control over notifications, no ads for now

More: 9to5Google, GeekWire and Gizmodo

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology — Uber CEO Posts 13-Tweet Apology Without Answering a Single Question — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million …

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says exec's remarks on targeting the press “a departure from our values” — Uber CEO Condemns “Terrible” Comments — “We should lead by inspiring our riders, our drivers, and the public at large,” Travis Kalanick said in an 11-tweet tweetstorm this afternoon.

More: San Francisco magazine, Daring Fireball, digiphile, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Mashable, CNET, VICE, MobileSyrup.com, NBC News, The Huffington Post, The Verge, The Register and NBC Bay Area

Tweets: @travisk and @tomkrazit

See also Mediagazer

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Uber risks turning off investors, employees, and the public with its aggressive culture

More: Wired, iMore, Fortune, Washington Post and BuzzFeed

See also Mediagazer

Nancy Scola / Washington Post:

Uber updates privacy policy, reiterating it will only use rider data for “legitimate business purposes”, says it is investigating recent BuzzFeed claims

More: BuzzFeed, Uber Blog, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, PandoDaily and The Next Web. Tweets: @caseynewton

See also Mediagazer

Ross Miller / The Verge:

Apple Watch will feature info-rich “Long Look” notifications if wearer keeps wrist raised, and static, non-interactive maps — 11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works — As of today, developers can now make apps for Apple Watch.

More: The Next Web, Business Wire, Ars Technica, Daring Fireball, TIME, Cult of Mac, TUAW, iMore, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, App Advice, iLounge, The Mac Observer, Tech Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and The Next Web. Tweets: @ohnorosco

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers — Apple today announced that its set of WatchKit development tools are now available for developers, allowing them to begin creating apps and software for the company's upcoming Apple Watch.

More: 9to5Mac, ReadWrite, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Re/code, TUAW, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Mashable, Mercury News, The Register, MacNN, Macworld, InvestorPlace, CNET, SlashGear and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @pschiller

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple WatchKit third-party apps require a connected iPhone to function, ‘fully native’ apps coming later in 2015

More: The Next Web, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, MacDailyNews and O'Grady's PowerPage

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Watch Screen Resolutions: 312 x 390 for 42mm Version, 272 x 340 for 38mm Version

More: BGR

Yi Zhuang / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter search finally indexes all public tweets since 2006 — Building a complete Tweet index — Today, we are pleased to announce that Twitter now indexes every public Tweet since 2006. — Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets …

More: Wired, MacStories, Daring Fireball, The Register, Computerworld, The Verge, Mashable, PC Magazine, TIME, Marketing Land, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, ReadWrite, The Daily Dot, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and VentureBeat

Bloomberg:

Apple told to pay $23.6M for infringing pager technology patents from the 1990s — Apple Told to Pay $23.6 Million Over Pager Technology — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was told to pay a Texas company $23.6 million after a jury found its iPhone and other devices used pager technology from the 1990s without permission.

More: The Register, SiliconBeat, BGR, Re/code, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, iClarified, TechnoBuffalo, The Mac Observer, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, App Advice and iMore. Tweets: @sudecker1

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Nokia N1 will be made and sold by Foxconn, will include Google Play in markets where Play is available — Non-Microsoft Nokia launches Android N1 tablet with Foxconn — Here's a shocker — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet.

More: VentureBeat, Reuters, SiliconANGLE and Ars Technica

Rita El Khoury / Android Police:

Nokia releases Z Launcher adaptable homescreen replacement on Play Store with scribble search

More: Z Launcher, ZDNet and Geek.com

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Nokia launches iPad Mini look-alike 7.9" N1 Android tablet with Lollipop, reversible MicroUSB connector, launching in China next year for $250

More: Nokia, TechCrunch, BBC, The Verge, Lost Remote, PhoneRadar, CNET, Telegraph, TIME and Seeking Alpha

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple will soon let third-party products use its Lightning port, opening up new possibilities for accessories — Last week at Apple's yearly briefing for accessory makers in its Made-for-iPhone/iPad (MFi) licensing program, the company unveiled new Lightning connectors and specs …

More: Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, The Verge and TechSpot. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Gruber says next year's iPhone may include a two-lens, DSLR quality back camera — Apple May Introduce ‘Biggest Camera Jump Ever’ in Next-Generation iPhone — Apple may introduce its “biggest camera jump ever” in the next-generation iPhone, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber (via The Tech Block).

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, AppleInsider and iDownloadBlog.com

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Google-owned Nest debuts first TV ads for its thermostat, smoke alarm, and Dropcam monitors — Come On, Put This Google-Owned Surveillance Device in Your House. It'll Be Great! — How do you convince regular people to buy Google-owned monitoring gadgets and install them in their homes?

More: 9to5Google, Adweek, Mediabistro, Android Authority, Mashable and CNET

Cliff Edwards / Netflix:

Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015 — World's Leading Internet Television Network to Offer Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-Up Comedy Specials and TV Shows for Low Monthly Price — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), the leading Internet movie and TV subscription service …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Register, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker Australia, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Engadget. Tweets: @netflix

See also Mediagazer

Erin Kelly / USA Today:

Senate effectively kills USA Freedom Act, a bill that proposed an end to NSA phone metadata collection — NSA spying bill stalls in Senate vote — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance a bill that would stop the National Security Agency …

More: New York Times, Ars Technica, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Hill, Guardian, ZDNet, The Huffington Post, Senator Wyden's Press Feed and NBC News

Tweets: @govgaryjohnson, @levie and @ronwyden

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google's mobile search results get ‘mobile-friendly’ label to show you which sites work best on your phone — Google today announced the debut of a new “mobile-friendly” label on its mobile search results page. The company says the change will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks, so don't fret if you don't see it yet.

More: Google Webmaster Central Blog, PC World, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, Marketing Land, Google Operating System, Domain Name Wire and Gizmodo

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

EFF and Mozilla back new certificate authority “Let's Encrypt” offering free SSL certificates — EFF, Mozilla back new certificate authority that will offer free SSL certificates — A new organization supported by Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others is working …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gigaom, Electronista, Boing Boing, Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware Guide, The Hill, TechCrunch, The Register, eWeek and CNET

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Microsoft Fixes Critical Kerberos Flaw Under Attack With Out-of-Band Patch — Last week, Microsoft released 14 security bulletins as part of Patch Tuesday for November 2014. The updates contained four rated as critical, including a vulnerability that affects the Windows Secure Channel (SChannel) security package.

More: TechNet Blogs, Krebs on Security, Ars Technica, The Laws of Vulnerabilities, WindowsITPro, eWeek and gHacks Technology News

Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:

PayPal unveils Pebble app for notifications, watch-only payments at stores accepting PayPal — PayPal challenges Apple Pay with an app for the Pebble smartwatch — PayPal's mobile payments app is now available for the Pebble smartwatch, the company announced in a blog post today.

More: Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacRumors

Mark Wilson / BetaNews:

Microsoft unveils Office 365 Video for secure enterprise video sharing and streaming — Microsoft is giving Office 365 users an early glimpse of what it hopes will become the future of enterprise video sharing. Office 365 Video harnesses the power of SharePoint and Azure Media Services …

More: Office Blogs, SuperSite for Windows, WinBeta and GeekWire

Sponsor Posts

Command Line:

Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making — Our new model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform other models.

Will Reed:

The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.

Zoho:

Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.

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

Big Technology Podcast:

Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don't Bully Your AI

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.

Sources:

Qualcomm's CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle

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.

The Upstarts Podcast:

Bringing Back Mammoths And Building Noah's Ark 2.0 | Colossal's Ben Lamm

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:

The launch industrial complex

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.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

Larry Ellison's Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI's Biggest Gamble

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:

Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:40 AM ET, November 19, 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.