Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:30 PM ET, November 29, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Apple to Unveil Faster IPhone, AT&T's Stephenson Says  —  Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.  —  The device will operate …
RELATED:
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AT&T CEO outs 3G iPhone: "You'll have it next year"  —  Of course the 3G iPhone is coming, that's clearly in the evolution plan.  As Jobs said himself, it's only a matter of time until improved batteries allow for it.  Still, when AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson says, "You'll have it next year," well, our ears tend to perk up.
Haochi / Googlified:
Google Digg-Style Experiment  —  Google Experimental is currently running an experiment that allows some selected users to "influence [the] search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results."  —  On a result page, you can choose move a search result to the top by clicking …
RELATED:
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results  —  If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize.  Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.
Verizon:
Verizon Selects LTE As 4G Wireless Broadband Direction  —  Technology Platform to be Trialed in 2008  —  BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - the technology developed within …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Facebook May Revamp Beacon  —  After pressure from MoveOn and members, the social network may change a policy on sharing info on users' Web buying and activities  —  In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool …
RELATED:
Chris Williams / The Register:
Facebook 'to drop' creeptech ad system
Discussion: The Open Road
TVNZ:
Exploding phone gives midnight fright  —  Nokia has launched a full investigation into what is believed to be New Zealand's first case of a cellphone battery explosion.  —  Auckland man Norman Sievewright woke to a loud bang in the middle of the night and found his phone, which had been charging next to his bed, had exploded.
RELATED:
Kwang-Tae Kim / Associated Press:
Report: Phone may not have killed worker
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
David Pogue / New York Times:
Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again)  —  Don't look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware.  —  The company's overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful.  Remember the Smart Display?  The Spot Watch?  The Ultra-Mobile PC?  The original Zune?
Discussion: Ryan Stewart and Paul Mooney
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads  —  Yahoo and Adobe are bringing pay-per-click ads to Adobe's Portable Document Format so that publishers can serve up ads inside PDFs distributed on Web sites and over e-mail that are contextually relevant to the content.  —  The text advertisements appear …
RELATED:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
ACAP Launches, Robots.txt 2.0 For Blocking Search Engines?  —  After a year of discussions, ACAP — Automated Content Access Protocol — was released today as a sort of robots.txt 2.0 system for telling search engines what they can or can't include in their listings.
RELATED:
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
News Web Sites Seek More Search Control
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Warner Music (WMG): Next Year Will Be Awful  —  Warner Music doesn't formally offer guidance to Wall Street.  But read between the lines from his just-concluded Q4 earnings call and it's pretty clear that WMG is going to have a lousy 2008:  —  • Physical music sales are going to continue to plummet …
Discussion: The Globe and Mail
RELATED:
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:   Earnings: Warner Music Profit Down 58 Percent; Digital Grows 25 …
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
'Bot Roast II' Nets 8 Individuals  —  Second Phase of Ongoing Cyber Investigation Reveals More Than $20 Million in Economic Loss and More Than One Million Victimized Computers.  Public Urged To Take Precaution.  —  The FBI today announced the results of the second phase of its continuing investigation …
Discussion: PC World, InfoWorld and Security Fix
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Why You Can't Get Your Hands on a Wii  —  Brace yourself for another cranky Christmas, when hopeful children get up early only to discover there's no Wii under the tree.  —  The Nintendo console's broad appeal — and a maxed-out supply chain that can't be ramped up to meet holiday demands …
Andrew Ramadge / NEWS.com.au:
Google doodle chosen for Australia Day  —  Doodle 4 Google ... artist Janelle San Juan in Sydney (left) and the winning design (right) / Supplied  —  A DESIGN by 12-year-old Janelle San Juan will appear on Google's homepage to mark Australia Day after the Victorian student won the Doodle 4 Google competition.
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)  —  Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.  This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development.  —  Over the next few months we'll …
Netflix:
NETFLIX AND NBC UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCE ONLINE DEAL FOR 'HEROES' AND OTHER POPULAR SERIES  —  by Netflix Subscribers the Day After its Network Airing  —  UNIVERSAL CITY and LOS GATOS, Calif., November 26, 2007 - Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service …
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Exclusive: Helio Mysto outed  —  Look what I found today.  The first official pics of the Mysto from Helio.  The CDMA version of the U600, of course.  Ain't she a beaut?  No word on specs or release date, but it'll run $150.  Can't wait for this slick slider to make its way into my hands.
Discussion: Gizmodo, DVICE and MobileCrunch
Jerome Wendt / Computerworld:
Opinion: What you don't virtualize can hurt you  —  Congested networks can quickly mitigate whatever initial benefits virtualization delivers  —  In the frenzy to virtualize servers, companies are forgetting to virtualize an important and yet critical component of their infrastructures …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 2:30 PM ET, November 29, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS  —  Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered.  In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots  —  How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Mike Pinkerton / Google Code Blog:
Google Gadgets going cross-platform
Evan Ratliff / Wired News:
Q&A: Zillow's Rich Barton on Real Estate, AI and Basement Floods
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
HP expands lead over Dell in PC market
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
What If They Gave a Browser War and Microsoft Never Came?
Discussion: Channel 9
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Open Web Awards: Call for nominations
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Size Limits for Cable Look Likely
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The Amazon Kindle: One week and 3,500 miles later
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog
Born Rich:
TV Bed Powered with Subwoofer & iPod Dock : Your Own Luxury Oasis
 Earlier Items: 
Jean Véronis / Technologies du Langage:
Search: Google-Yahoo Comparison
Discussion: WebProNews and WebMetricsGuru
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
MacBook wireless suffering after recent Mac OS X updates
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Turns Out You Can't Sue Creative Commons Because You Didn't Understand …
Discussion: TechnoLlama and Lessig Blog
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Google expunges malware sites from search results
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
Group chat and rich emoticons now available in Gmail chat
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft shows next version of Windows Mobile behind closed doors
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Report: EMI looking to slash funding for RIAA, IFPI
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Geni Clone Growing A Lot Faster Than Geni
Discussion: RIA pedia