Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:35 PM ET, June 26, 2010

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft by the numbers  —  You probably saw the news this week that we've sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses in 8 months.  That's more than 600,000 per day.  And, perhaps fittingly for a product called Windows 7, it adds up to 7 copies every second of every day since launch.
RELATED:
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Decoding Microsoft's Fantastic Passive-Agressive Numbers Post  —  Yesterday, Microsoft communications head Frank Shaw put up a post on The Official Microsoft Blog rattling off some numbers regarding many of Microsoft's products.  The intention was obviously to lend some perspective …
Thanks:weemundo
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Death Grip hysteria may end Monday with iOS 4.01  —  Reception issues observed by new iPhone 4 owners, derided as the “Death Grip” by bloggers, appears to actually be a software issue that an iOS update is expected to resolve early next week.  —  Identifying the problem
RELATED:
John Levine / CircleID:
The .XXX Fiasco is Almost Over  —  At Friday's meeting of the ICANN board in Brussels, they voted, probably for the last time, to approve the 2004 application for the .XXX domain.  —  Purely on the merits, there is of course no need for a top level domain for porn.
Discussion: Domain Name Wire
RELATED:
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A New Suffix for X-Rated Web Sites  —  SAN FRANCISCO — What if the Web held a sex party and no one showed up?  —  That's what could happen now that the agency governing the Internet address system all but approved the creation of a new red-light district on the Web.
Discussion: The Informer, ICM Registry and ZDNet
TechnoBuffalo:
Blackberry Curve 9300 Prototype - Hands On  —  The good folks at Negri Electronics managed to hook us up with an unannounced Blackberry Curve 9300 prototype.  This little guy packs quite a redesigned punch, featuring an optical trackpad, flush control buttons on the front, new media buttons on the top …
Ben Gottesman / PC Magazine:
Internet Speed Test: The Fastest ISPs in the U.S. 2010  —  We put Internet browsing speeds to the test to see which providers are the best at delivering the Web to you.  —  Is your Web browsing as fast as it could be?  Fifteen years after Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer to compete …
Chris / cdixon.org:
Competition is overrated … Suppose you have an idea for a startup, and then do some research only to discover there are already similar products on the market.  You become disheartened and wonder if you should abandon your idea.  —  In fact, the existence of competing products is a meaningful signal …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Subscription Hulu: Beginning of the End for Cable, Satellite TV?  —  Hulu, which currently showcases free content from NBC, Wired.com and other video providers, will try charging for a premium version soon, according to reports (Image: Wired.com interviews Nick Cave on Hulu).
Discussion: TechnoBuffalo and Erictric
Heather Kelly / Macworld:
iPhone 4 camera beats the smartphone competition  —  Camera quality is a competitive area for the current crop of smartphones.  With each new device, the gap between phones that happen to have cameras, and actual point-and-shoot cameras, shrinks.  —  To accurately see how good the iPhone 4's 5-megapixel …
Aliya Sternstein / Nextgov.com:
White House abolishes decade-old cookies ban  —  As expected, White House officials on Friday rolled back a 10-year-old prohibition on web-tracking devices called cookies, a policy that online experts said prevented agencies from personalizing online services to engage the public.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Traditional Media Is Having A Field Day On Tumblr  —  Tumblr, the innovative blogging platform created by young web entrepreneur David Karp in 2007, had a bit of a media moment on the afternoon of Thursday, June 24.  —  Around 1 p.m., we reported that The New York Times had recently created a Tumblr …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 5:35 PM ET, June 26, 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:
CIO challenge 5: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs?  —  Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series!  After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
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: 
La Quadrature du Net:
Leak: EU pushes for criminalizing non-commercial usages in ACTA
Discussion: p2pnet, Techdirt and ringtonia.com
Bertrand / Erictric:
Sprint to Update HTC EVO 4G to Android 2.2, Samsung Moment and HTC Hero Left Behind
Russell Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch:
The Daily Start-Up: Carried Interest Tax Dies (For Now)
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Michelle Meyers / CNET News:
Palm shareholders approve HP takeover plans
Discussion: Engadget
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Lawinski / CNNMoney.com:
Where old iPhones go to die
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Going, Going, Almost Gone: Foursquare Poised to Get New VC Funding …
Discussion: CloudAve, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
IPhone Gyroscope To Rev Up Location Apps
Taylor Buley / Velocity:
Google Isn't Just Reading Your Links, It's Now Running Your Code
Thanks:bcaulfield