Techmeme: Can RIM make the transition from enterprise to consumer? (Michael Gartenberg/Computerworld)

3:15 PM ET, May 17, 2010

Top Items:

Foxconn to ship 24 million iPhone 4G in 2010, says Digitimes Research — Foxconn will ship 24 million units of Apple's latest iPhone 4G with shipments starting in June, according to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers.

Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:

iPhone 4: June launch, high-res screen, iBookstore - Digitimes — Apple's making major orders now for the next-gen iPhone, reports from the company's suppliers in China and Taiwan suggest. — Manufacturer, Foxconn, seems set to ship 24 million units of the device at least this year …

Discussion: Electronista, Ubergizmo and dailywireless.org

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Goes Down Following Legal Pressure — A few days ago we exclusively revealed that several major Hollywood movie studios had obtained a preliminary injunction against CyberBunker operator CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG from the Regional Court of Hamburg.

Discussion: Download Squad, Guardian, NewTeeVee, ZeroPaid.com, TG Daily, Boy Genius Report, TechSpot, CNET News, Erictric, DailyTech, MediaMemo, Softpedia News, Slyck, Maximum PC and Geekosystem

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

U.S. Mac sales up 39% in April — Based on NPD data, iPods, not Macs, are being cannibalized by the iPad, says an analyst — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has looked at the NPD Group's data for the month of April and concluded that it's good news for Apple (AAPL). How so?

Discussion: MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

iPad Already Taking Away iPod Sales (AAPL) — After analyzing newly released data from the NPD group, Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray thinks the iPad's early success is already affecting iPod sales. — This afternoon NPD reported Apple's iPod sales are down 17% year-over-year for April.

Discussion: Digital Daily

Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:

Google and Intel in web TV launch — Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform. — Top executives from the Silicon Valley companies are reported to be ready …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Five Years In, YouTube Is Now Streaming Two Billion Views Per Day — It's hard to believe, but it's been five years since YouTube launched and changed the way people share video online (it was acquired by Google a year and a half later). To celebrate its birthday, YouTube has just announced …

Brad Stone / New York Times:
YouTube, Now 5, Shows Signs of Growing Up

Discussion: Digits, Telegraph, Fast Company, bub.blicio.us, The Blog Herald, fierceonlinevideo.com … and Lost Remote

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
YouTube Turns Five, Quietly Adds Hashtags to Comments

Discussion: eWeek, WATBlog.com and Search Engine Watch

Reuters:

Apple's iPhone replaces Blackberry for some bankers — * Singapore's OCBC gives staff choice of iPhone or Blackberry — * RIM teams up with China Telecom for Blackberry service (Adds comments from RIM, OCBC) — British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the Blackberry …

Discussion: Research in Motion, GigaOM, AppleInsider, TG Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Unwired View, Edible Apple and ZDNet

Michael Gartenberg / Computerworld:
Can RIM make the transition from enterprise to consumer?

Discussion: I4U News, Electronista and TNW Apple

Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:

Facebook Prepares To Announce 500 Million Users — Facebook is working on plans for their 500 million user celebration, projected to take place at some point before the end of June. While we'd expect Facebook to make an announcement in the next couple weeks, an announcement should be expected …

Discussion: TNW Social Media

Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
What backlash? Facebook is growing like mad

Discussion: PC World

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net — San Francisco - New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Ars Technica, Network World and p2pnet

Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:

Google Tells Sites for ‘Cougars’ to Go Prowl Elsewhere — IF you're a woman who would like to date younger men, you can find lots of articles about these relationships by doing a Google search. — But as a woman looking for a man, you might be a little confused by the advertisements that accompany these articles.

Discussion: counternotions, Boy Genius Report, GeekSugar and AppScout

Katherine Bourzac / Technology Review:

New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens — DuPont has developed a printing process to bring down the cost of high-performance displays. — Organic light emitting diode, or OLED, displays seem to have it all: energy efficiency and a beautiful, crisp picture that refreshes rapidly.

Discussion: OLED TV Display Lighting …, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Engadget, SlashGear, Softpedia News, I4U News and DVICE

Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Dive deeper into Techmeme's top sources and introducing the Mediagazer Leaderboard — For over two years, Techmeme's Leaderboard has ranked the sources making headlines on Techmeme most frequently over the past month. While the Leaderboard has represented different things to different people …

Discussion: Mediagazer News, Thanks:megan

Chris Messina / FactoryCity:

Two tastes better together: Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect — On Friday, David Recordon, one of the original authors of OpenID, released a single-page specification for OpenID Connect, a concept that I outlined on this blog in January before I joined Google.

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google Refreshes Android Market Website - It Inexplicably Still Lacks Search — We're not 100% sure when it popped up first, but Google has seemingly updated the Android Market website. Don't pee your pants just yet - they've apparently merely shuffled some things around along with other layout changes.

Discussion: GameLife, Android Central, AndroidGuys, EuroDroid, GottaBeMobile, Google Android Blog, Erictric, Silicon Alley Insider and Android and Me

Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:

MobileMe Mail Beta Walkthrough — Apple recently started offering a new beta of the web Mail application portion of its MobileMe software suite. As a longtime MobileMe subscriber, I'd say it was high time it updated that particular app, which has been more or less broken since launch.

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

A New Social Workflow Patent from Apple Highlights Facebook — Last Wednesday the Business Insider reported that a mobile industry insider confirmed to them that Apple was building Facebook features into iPhone OS 4. Perhaps “Apple's new hooks into Facebook,” reported Frommer …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable!, MacStories and ithinkdifferent

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