Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:35 PM ET, April 28, 2010

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
HP:
HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion  —  Combination will accelerate HP's growth within the more than $100 billion connected mobile device market  —  HP and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm …
RELATED:
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
HP On Palm Acquisition: “Our Intent Is To Double Down On WebOS”  —  As you may have heard, HP has just announced the acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion.  It's a massive move that HP hopes will reshape the mobile industry.  I got a chance to talk with Brian Humphries …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
HP's Palm acquisition is about tablets and netbooks, too
Chris Obrien / SiliconBeat:
Did Elevation Partners take a hit on Palm investment?
Discussion: VentureBeat and Financial Times
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Smartest Tweets About HP/Palm
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat, Thanks:hpnews
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
HP-Palm: Everyone's a loser but Apple
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
HP Buys Palm: The Optimist's View
Discussion: Engadget, Fast Company and Yahoo! News
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
BREAKING NEWS: Siri bought by Apple  —  Back in February I said that if you miss Siri you will miss the future of the Web.  —  Well, Apple did not miss the future of the Web.  —  According to FTC Apple just purchased Siri.  —  If previous acquisitions by Apple are an indicator …
RELATED:
Timothy Hay / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Apple Moves Deeper Into Voice-Activated Search With Siri Buy  —  Apple Inc. has acquired Siri Inc. just a few months after the start-up's voice-activated personal-assistant program launched in the App Store, an investor in San Jose-based Siri told VentureWire.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Silicon Valley Buzz: Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Patent Agreement With HTC  —  Agreement will cover HTC's Android phones.  —  Microsoft Corp. and HTC Corp. have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC's mobile phones running the Android mobile platform.
RELATED:
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft claims Android steps on its patents  —  The mobile phone wars got a more interesting late on Tuesday as Microsoft publicly asserted for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property.  —  Microsoft has taken the position …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New iPhone Could Hit Stores During Apple's Developer Conference  —  Apple could put its next-generation iPhone on sale during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), sources familiar with the situation have told us.  That date could be June 7, the likely date of the WWDC keynote.
RELATED:
Apple:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco
Dan Moren / Macworld:
Apple drops Mac category from annual design awards
CNET News:
Gizmodo considers suing police after iPhone raid  —  A lawyer for Gizmodo says the gadget blog could sue the sheriff's office in San Mateo County, Calif., for raiding an editor's home last Friday as part of a criminal probe into an errant iPhone prototype.  —  The option of a lawsuit …
RELATED:
Barbara Kiviat / The Curious Capitalist:
The missing legal link in the Gizmodo-iPhone case
Tim Wu / Slate:   Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Final Details on the iPad's 3G Data Plans  —  I'm already a firm believer in the iPad 3G and its no-contract data plans, but AT&T's released the nitty gritty details, in case you wanted to check the fine print.  Pretty much the same, but a few new bits.
RELATED:
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Surprise Surprise, Pre-Ordered iPad 3G Begins Shipping
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Erictric and 9 to 5 Mac
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Believe In Privacy  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy — a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become …
Discussion: Fast Company and All Facebook
Piero Sierra / The Windows Blog:
Preview of the new Windows Live Messenger  —  We've spent the last few months posting about how we look at the industry, the key customer problems that are top-of-mind for us, and where we think we can improve the lives of our customers.  Today in a speech at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil …
Google Mobile Blog:
The New Image Search for Android and iPhone  —  When you do an image search, we find that it is typical that you will look through many pages of search results.  So in the redesign of Google Image Search for mobile, available today for iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 8:35 PM ET, April 28, 2010.

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.
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.
Zoho:
5 common accounting mistakes  —  This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions.  A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms.  This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
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: 
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Harbinger Hires Orange Exec to Run Proposed LTE Network: Report
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Thanks In Part To Google, Baidu Sees 165 Percent Jump In Profit And Record Revenue
Discussion: PR Newswire, Reuters and Maximum PC
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
'09 Music Sales Shed $1 Billion; U.S. Downloads Stagnant
Bloomberg:
Sony Said to Announce Televisions With Intel Chips, Google Software in May
Discussion: Maximum PC
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
T-Mobile Drops 5GB Cap, Ushers in a New Mobile Broadband Future
Discussion: Gizmodo
eMarketer:
Nearly Half of Mobile Ads Served to Smartphones
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Google intros Place Pages for Android, iPhone
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple retail store sales climb 8% to start 2010, even without new Macs
Discussion: TUAW and Digital Daily
 Earlier Items: 
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Klout Raises $1.5 Million To Measure Influence And Authority On Twitter
Discussion: VentureBeat and Mashable!
Jeremy Caplan / Digits:
The iPad and the Future of Text
TechCrunch:
When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)
Discussion: A VC, Thanks:eghosao
Markus Frind / Plenty of fish blog:
Match.com No longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers.
Discussion: paidContent and GigaOM
Vladimir Vukievi:
Fennec on Android
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads
 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page