Tech News – September 4th 2012 to September 5th 2012
Tech news – September 4th 2012 to September 5th 2012:
- What to Expect From Nokia and Microsoft’s Big Announcement –
Nokia and Microsoft are set to take the stage in just a few hours to unveil the next-generation of Lumia handsets.
Rumors have Nokia announcing two new Windows Phone smartphones Wednesday, both running the latest version of the operating system, Windows Phone 8.
Nokia announced its first two Windows Phone devices around this time last year at Nokia World in London. The two phones, the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, were the first phones on the scene running Windows Phone 7, and the first phones to re… show all text - Webcast – Nokia –
- 10 Ways Twitter Impacts Change In Our Lives | PodJam.tv –
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We are both active on social media and enjoy Google Plus, instagr.am, Facebook and Path although Twitter remains our favorite social networking platform. If not for Twitter, we would not have met and would not be partners in life now. We both remember the time when people laughed at us for being so active on Twitter. Funny to see those same people are rapidly getting on board. We can’t blame them for wanting to try it out too. There are still many skeptics who think Twitter it is a big ti… show all text - �redirecting� –
- Phonedeck Pivots With New App To Unify Your Mobile Contacts Book | TechCrunch –
In the old days of the web, Plaxo tried to solve the problem we all have when friends change their contact details, but by avoiding the tedious manual entry. But Plaxo was heavyweight, complex and had a spammy experience. Fast forward to 2012 and Brewster has an ambitious iOS app startup tackling the same problem, and backed by Union Square Ventures. They have the ambition to make the contact book on phones smarter and 'context' aware. Then there's Phonedeck. Phonedeck appeared last year to br… - Chinese Knockoff Maker Reportedly Copies, Patents iPhone 5 Design | Gadget Lab | Wired.com –
The Goophone I5 takes the upcoming iPhone’s purported new look to the Android platform. Image: Goophone
A Chinese iPhone lookalike manufacturer has reportedly patented the next iPhone’s design before Apple has even released the handset.
The Goophone I5, which was unveiled in late August, appears to be an exact ripoff of leaked images and parts for Apple’s next iPhone. Blog Gizchina reports that Goophone has already patented the design of the I5 and could potentially sue or try to block Apple fr… show all text - Looking out my daughters window with my morning coffee via Instagram. –
- Michelle Obama’s Speech Brings In 28K Tweets Per Minute, Destroys Mitt Romney | TechCrunch –
If you're into all of this political hoopla and you gauge the interest of America from the number of tweets during political events, then Michelle Obama has put the Democrats into the driver's seat with her speech tonight.On my train ride home from the TCHQ, my entire feed was filled with nothing but nice things to say about the speech from the first lady. Twitter shared some stats from the night, and it wasn't just my feed that blew up. - The Washington Post: Login – The Washington Post –
- How the Sun reported in the new fangled "Internet" in 1992 –
- BetaKit » Routehappy Adds $1.5M to Flight Search Engine to Help Travelers Fly Happy –
Today NYC-based flight experience search engine Routehappy announced that it has added $1.5 million in seed funding from investors including High Peaks Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners and VoCap Ventures, with participation from several angel investors in the travel industry. The company aims to be the Yelp for the airline industry, and since launching in beta in March 2012, Routehappy has gathered over 90,000 ratings and comments from users, and debuted its iPhone app in August 2012…. show all text - YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds | Threat Level | Wired.com –
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, those who got inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube found the video flagged by copyright claims shortly after it finished.
YouTube, the official streaming partner of the Democratic National Convention, put a copyright blocking message on the livestream video of the event shortly after it ended, which was embedded prominently at BarackObama.com and DemConvention20… show all text - Ohio State marching band kicking off #cmworld –
- Why didn’t CNN’s international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain’s Arab Spring repression? | Glenn Greenwald | World news | guardian.co.uk –
Glenn Greenwald: A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network - P090412PS-0695 | Flickr – Photo Sharing! –
- Seth’s Blog: The soapbox and the city –
Cities work because they create collisions between and among diverse individuals. Ideas go to cities to be born and to be spread, and the chaos that bubbles just under the surface feeds those ideas. The web, at its most effective, is a digital city, a place where access is equal and ideas race and connect and morph.
If you want to find creative work, go to a city. If you want to find inspiration, expose yourself to diversity, not a bubble. The city is chaotic, without much of a filter.
The soap… show all text - September 2012 | Threat Level | Wired.com –
- Gangnam Startup Style Teaser on Vimeo –
- When it comes to startups timing really is everything — Tech News and Analysis –
When it comes to startups, a lot is made of startup's founders, the market opportunities, its advisers and the team. Of course, there is chest thumping around investors and dollars raised. Yes, those are important issues, but let's not forget that timing is everything. - Every Time I Talk About Depression – Being Brave –
Sometimes, I tweet about being depressed, or I post to some various social network about how depression stinks. In those moments, the same thing happens, and I realized that I haven’t been very clear in what I’m trying to say when I want to talk to you about depression. I’m trying to share something very specific.
People With Depression Can Be Successful
Read that sentence again. I’m not saying that successful people can be depressed, though that’s true. I’m saying that people who suffer from d… show all text - Gunman targets Quebec premier at victory speech – CNN.com –
A gunman targeting Quebec's new premier opened fire during her victory speech at a Montreal concert hall, killing one person and wounding another, police said. - Million Cranes for Japan on Vimeo –
- David Ebersman, the Man Behind Facebook’s I.P.O. Debacle – NYTimes.com –
The company's chief financial officer badly misjudged demand for Facebook's I.P.O., and will be under pressure until the stock rebounds. - News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World – USATODAY.com –
Breaking news on weather, sports, world, science, financial, technology, travel, national, economy, and entertainment news provided by USATODAY.com. USATODAY.com provides video, sudoku, RSS feeds, crossword puzzles, audio, photo galleries, and email…
- With $1.3M From 500 Startups & Others, Chalkable Launches An App Store For Schools | TechCrunch –
Over the last two years, there’s been a significant increase in the amount of educational media available to the world’s learners, but teachers and parents are hard pressed today to navigate the education content jungle. As a result, curators, algorithms and content analyzers like Learning Registry have popped up to help educators find the best and most effective learning media from the 100K apps on the App Store and the long-list of educational tools available on the Web.
Chalkable, a 500 Star… show all text - Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right « blog maverick –
Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the NY Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong.
Have you ever been to an auction where the selling party told a buyer to reduce their price because they were worried that the item might not hold its value ? Neither have I. If the CFO of Facebook came on SharkTank and told me that he was able to sell his shares to the public for $38 a share, but turned down the opportuni… show all text - Twitter / gov: @KalPennwe’ve got one word … –
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- Netflix open-sources Eureka to fill gap in Amazon’s cloud — Cloud Computing News –
Pretty soon we’re going to need a score card to track the increasingly complex Amazon-Netflix relationship. As Amazon dives deeper into streamed video on its own, Netflix, which runs its video streaming business on Amazon Web Services, is getting more proficient at plugging gaps in Amazon’s cloud platform.
On Tuesday, Netflix posted code for its Eureka service, which provides mid-tier load balancing that Amazon itself does not offer, to the Github repository so that other AWS customers can tweak show all text - » Save Homicide Watch Clay Shirky –
Homicide Watch, one of the most important experiments in improving journalism in the era of the internet, will die in a week, unless we save them. They need our help. Please donate $50 on Kickstarter to help them keep working. If you can’t do $50, do $25, or $5. (For the record, I’m in for $500.)
Please donate. Everything helps.
If you stop reading here and just give them a little money and a little public love, you’ll be making the country a better place. If you want more, read on.
Homicide Wa… show all text - Facts, Truth … and May the Best Man Win | The Public Editor – NYTimes.com –
Whatever the conclusions, whatever the effectiveness, of challenging facts, the idea that we have to debate the necessity of the media doing so strikes me as absurd. - Please Welcome Natasha Lomas And Darrell Etherington (And Drew Olanoff) To TechCrunch | TechCrunch –
Today, on behalf of the TechCrunch team, I’d like to welcome our two newest writers: Natasha Lomas and Darrell Etherington. - A tribute to Senator Kennedy –
- {UnWinona} | I debated whether or not to share this story. –
And then I debated whether or not to put it on Tumblr…but I decided it was important. Because in my own way, I can (unfortunately) point out exactly what is wrong with men when they don’t realize how hard it is to be a woman. How we do not have equal opportunities and freedoms in everyday life. How most men, even good caring men, have no clue what we go through on a daily basis just trying to live our lives.
So here goes.
I often ride the Metro when I commute from North Hollywood to Long Bea… show all text - Hackers Claim to Have 12 Million Apple Device Records – NYTimes.com –
Hackers have released a file that they say contains more than one million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. They claim to have obtained the file by hacking into the computer of a federal agent, though the F.B.I. denied that this had happened. - ‘Trojan Horse’ blends malware and geopolitics in a taut thriller | ZDNet –
Summary: Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich has published his second novel, a page-turner that's solidly grounded in technical facts. In a world where Stuxnet is just the beginning of a global campaign of cyberwarfare, who can you trust? - Gdgt Refocuses As The Remedy For Overwhelmed Gadget Shoppers | TechCrunch –
Once, buyers were overwhelmed with choice. Now, they’re just overwhelmed with a choice of tools to help them choose. But gdgt, one such site, is hoping that it can build the ultimate solution for consumers looking to make smart gadget buying solutions, is launching new custom search tools it hopes will make using it to clear up shopper confusion a no-brainer.
Gdgt is the brainchild of former Engadget founder Peter Rojas and former editor-in-chief of the same site Ryan Block, offering users a hu… show all text - Wayne Knight, better known as Newman on Seinfeld, is among the Oregon delegates at the DNC –
- iPhone 5. Because Of Reasons. | TechCrunch –
It turns out we may have been over-thinking it.
If the invite sent out this morning by Apple is any indication, the next iPhone is likely to be called the “iPhone 5″. No, it doesn’t technically make sense — it is the sixth iteration of the iPhone — and yet, at the same time, it makes all the sense in the world. It’s the iPhone 5 because that’s what everyone is calling it. Sometimes it is that simple.
Sometimes.
Horace Dediu dove into Apple’s naming conventions earlier and lays out an argument t… show all text - Hard Knocks | GetGlue –
HBO goes inside the NFL once again, this time pulling back the curtain on the Miami Dolphins for a brand new summer season of Hard Knocks. - Here Is a Picture of a Gawker Writer Wearing a Tutu with a Shoe on His Head –
As a journalist, I am sworn to bring facts to light by any means necessary. So here is a picture of me in a tutu with a shoe on my head at Gawker HQ. (A size 9 1/2 men's Reebok Question, to be exact.) More » - San Diego Padres | padres.com: Tickets –
- ‘Mad Men’ Cast Perform World’s Classiest Rickroll [VIDEO] –
Rickrollers, rejoice: you now have a video to link people to that will earn you an appreciative laugh, rather than a punch in the face.
The cast of AMC's Mad Men — which, to the chagrin of every fan of good television, is on hiatus until 2013 — have here been expertly cut together to perform that seminal musical work of 1987, Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up.
SEE ALSO: Nickelbacking: the new Rickrolling?
We tip our hat to the timewasting excellence of the video's creator, who must surely… show all text - NASA JPL Live, Ustream.TV: TO PLANETS AND BEYOND: VOYAGER CELEBRATES 35 YEARSSept. 5, 11 a.m. PDTNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrates the 35-ann… –
- A One Year Student Reporting Lab within Homicide Watch DC by Homicide Watch — Kickstarter –
Homicide Watch is raising funds for A One Year Student Reporting Lab within Homicide Watch DC on Kickstarter! Change the way crime is covered. Create a reporting lab within Homicide Watch DC to cover every murder in Washington for one year. - Accountability on Kickstarter » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter –
Yesterday, NPR's "All Things Considered" asked, "When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?" The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow through on its promises. The piece raised …
- FBI Says Laptop Wasn’t Hacked; Never Possessed File of Apple Device IDs | Threat Level | Wired.com –
Credit: Jon Snyder/Wired
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is refuting a statement made by members of AntiSec this weekend that they hacked the laptop of an FBI special agent and stole a file containing 12 million Apple device IDs and associated personal information.
The FBI also said it did not possess a file containing the data the hackers said they stole.
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, the FBI said, “The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromi… show all text - FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD –
The FBI has shot down today’s claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.
The FBI computer from which the data was supposedly taken was never hacked, the Bureau said. What’s more, it said it never gathered the information in the first place.
Here’s the statement straight from an FBI spokesperson, sent only five minutes ago:
The FBI is aware of published… show all text - Following Facebook’s Shut Down Of Face.com’s Facial Recognition API, Lambda Labs Debuts An Open Source Alternative | TechCrunch –
Facebook retired Face.com’s facial recognition APIs less than a month after its $55-$60 million acquisition of the Israeli-based company, which previously offered developers tools to build applications that could identify people based on digital photos. The move left Face.com’s some 45,000+ developers stranded, and saw the developer community demanding an open source alternative. And now, there is one. In response to the outcry, an early stage startup out of San Francisco called LambdaLabs has … show all text - Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Will Give His First On-Stage Interview Since The IPO At Disrupt SF | TechCrunch –
The whole world wants to know what's on Mark Zuckerberg's mind, and we're going to find out. The Facebook CEO has agreed to his first interview on stage since his company's IPO, and it's happening at TechCrunch Disrupt next Tuesday at 2pm.While once Zuckerberg's dorm-room project, Facebook has transformed into a world-changing social utility and the CEO's story has inspired a generation. Not only has it attracted nearly 1 billion users and launched a platform enabling whole new industries, it's… - What newspapers and other media could learn from Reddit — Tech News and Analysis –
Although it has a pretty wide following within a certain community of geeks and web natives, Reddit achieved another whole level of mainstream status recently when President Obama agreed to do one of the site’s crowdsourced “Ask Me Anything” interviews. In the wake of that event, New York Times media writer David Carr looked at how the web community has been able to grow even after being acquired by Advance Publications, the Newhouse-owned media giant that also owns a number of newspapers such … show all text - Facebook Announces Massive $2 Billion Share Buyback At Less Than Half Of The IPO Price* – Business Insider –
Facebook just released an SEC filing that contained a whole bunch of nuggets of information, including the following:
Directors Marc Andreessen and Donald Graham will soon be selling some stock (enough to pay the taxes owed on their stock grants)
CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not sell any more stock for at least a year (he sold $1.1 billion at $38 on the IPO)
The company is accelerating the lock-up release for many employees to October 29. On October 29, 234 million employee-owned shares will become… show all text - Will Twitter’s Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out? | PandoDaily –
This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors.
One was an argument that it’ll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went like this: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga have proven the private markets are fundamentally horrible at valuing companies. In the early stages, that doesn’t particularly matter. But when you get into pre-IPO secondary shares being bought and sold, it does. Just ask the people who bought pre-IPO shares of all… show all text - Let Detroit Go Bankrupt –
A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the auto industry needs. - As a Taxi-Hailing App Comes to New York, Its Legality Is Questioned –
The app’s creators plan to introduce it on Wednesday, but taxi officials say the program may have a significant problem: city rules do not allow prearranged rides in yellow taxis. - YouTube – Broadcast Yourself –
- Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won’t Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market | TechCrunch –
With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn’t want to flood the market with any more stock, so it has cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash as detailed in an 8-K filed with the SEC today. Also, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has informed the SEC he has no plans to sell any of his stock in the next year. Meanwhile, board members Marc Andreessen and Don Graham will sell some to cover taxes but beyond that “have no present intention to sell any shares”.
Along w… show all text - The Only Thing Lamer than Corporate VCs? International, Non-Tech Corporate VCs | PandoDaily –
“Corporate VC” is an oxymoron. It’s like a division of a big company pretending they can operate “like a startup.” It’s like the lie that a company won’t change once it has been acquired. It’s like a cat pretending it’s a dog.
This is true for Valley-based technology companies who used to be startups and now try to invest in the next generation. Imagine how a global multinational corporation is going to fare. Spoiler: Not well.
DealBook wrote today about big multinationals opening up around Palo show all text - Happy birthday Skype. In 9 years you changed telecom — Tech News and Analysis –
It is hard to imagine that Skype, a service that is so deeply embedded into our broadband life, is nine years old. August 29, 2003 is the official birthday of the service, which celebrated its ninth birthday just ahead of the long holiday weekend here in the United States. It is a service that started as a simple idea – free calling for everyone who had an Internet connection. That radically simple idea changed the telecom industry and the voice-calling business forever.
Looking back, it is cle… show all text - Why Telefónica Is Acing It With A New $378M LatAm Fund And A Growing Incubator Network | TechCrunch –
There are a few significant trends going on in this particular era. There is an explosion of technology adoption and innovation happening in developing regions like Latin America, and a few of us are aware that big lumbering corporates are struggling to deal with the pace of change – indeed, it seems like the old R&D departments of yore are a ridiculous concept when enormous disruption could come from Zuckerburg's Harvard dorm. But there are few companies realising how to latch onto that innova… - Fears Rising, Spaniards Pull Out Their Cash and Get Out of Spain –
While the situation in Spain is not as dire as that of Greece, some Spaniards are taking their euros, and sometimes themselves and their families, out of the country. - SPECIAL #FFF EDITION – ANONYMOUS – Pastebin.com –
- Madeleine Albright: ‘I Can’t Understand Why Any Woman Would Want To Vote For Mitt Romney’ –
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There's been no shortage of musing over Mitt Romney's failure to win over female voters. The gender gap is pronounced, and with the efforts of the president's political team, growing wider. - Scott’s 37th Birthday for Rwanda –
charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of donations directly fund clean water projects and every donation is proven with photos and GPS coordinates. - Multinationals Stake a Claim in Venture Capital – NYTimes.com –
Companies like American Express and General Motors have opened small offices in Palo Alto to stay closer to innovation, as an investment and a mind-set.
- A 5-step guide to starting a brand journalism program | Articles | Main –
- How The Telecom Company Free Disrupted The Mobile Landscape In France | TechCrunch –
Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from Free in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more important, unlimited data with a speed reduction after 3 GB. Usually for that plan in the U.S., you would pay more than $100 for limited data with a two-year contract. In France, it costs $25 per month (€19.99, sales tax included) and there is no contract.
Yet, it is something radically new for French consumers who used to pay between $57 and $82 per mo… show all text - Why Nonprofit Social Media is a Waste of Time –
Intentional engagement makes nonprofit social media worth the effort. Building and sustaining relationships that may benefit the reader, creating a win/win.
- College Football Teams Struggle to Share Defeat on Facebook –
College football programs have taken well to Facebook in recent years as a way to elicit rah-rah enthusiasm before big games and pump up the fresh hope of a new season. Posts, links and photos tout sellout crowds, hype star players and bestow epic levels of importance upon season openers.
But what if a new season's optimistic outlook gets deflated with a disappointing first-game loss? A quick look across the national landscape of college football teams on Facebook after the sport's opening week… show all text - Play It Again, Sam? Nokia Launches Free Music Streaming Service In U.S. | TechCrunch –
Nokia didn't fare so well with its streamed mobile music service called Ovi Music Unlimited. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming service in the U.S. as part of its redoubled strategy to go for more users in America. The news comes one day before the company's Nokia World event in New York, where it is expected to unveil new handsets on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.The service will feature 150 pre-set playlists, the ability for users to create their ow… - What are the Top 10 Facebook Pages? | Jeffbullas’s Blog –
If you have a technology addiction, I can almost guarantee it will be one of two things.
A social media network (most probably Facebook) or a mobile device.
Walk down the street and you will see people peering into small screens whether stationary or moving and I would warrant that one in two would be checking Facebook .
Social media marketing is quite often associated with building Facebook likes and many businesses think that this is the beginning and the end of the social media marketing … show all text - Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits –
Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.
- Million Cranes for Japan on Vimeo –
- Windows 8 Devices At GA –
Last updated at 13:48 GMT, 4/09/2012, to correct the screen resolution of the Samsung ATIV Smart PC. Here is my best effort listing of designed-for-Windows 8 devices that will be available at or soon after Windows 8 general availability (GA). I am not including laptops or PCs that are Windows 7 machines that “can be [...] Related posts:
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Hyper-V NU January 2012 Slide Decks, Including My One on Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Network show all text - AntiSec Leaks 1m Apple UDIDs Allegedly Obtained from FBI Breach –
The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs, as well as personal information such as user names, device names, notification tokens, cell phone numbers and addresses.
(Updated with link below to check whether your device’s UDID was leaked)
The hackers issued a statement with the following description on how the data was obtained:
During the seco… show all text
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