Techmeme: Kindle For Android Now Available (Chad Catacchio/The Next Web)

6:05 PM ET, June 28, 2010

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iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million — Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap …

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Despite Glitches, iPhone 4 is Apple's Biggest Launch Ever

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, MediaPost, Bits, BetaNews, Fortune, FierceWireless, blogs.chron.com and Electronista

Stephen Chapman / Microsoft Kitchen:

Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed — A big thanks to @floo1989 for the heads-up! Over the weekend, the Italian Windows site “Windowsette” got a hold of some super secret squirrel Microsoft presentations apparently laying around on the internet somewhere.

Discussion: PC World, The Seattle Times, Microsoft Watch, Silicon Alley Insider and The Huffington Post

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft starts sharing Windows 8 plans with PC partners — Windows 8 (which my sources claim recently hit Milestone 1) is starting to take shape. — Microsoft's next version of Windows client is far enough along that the Windows team seems to have begun sharing details about its goals with Microsoft's PC partners.

Discussion: Neowin.net, TechSpot and Techie Buzz

Manan / I'm Just Being Manan:
[Screenshots] Kinect's Windows 8 Implementation

Discussion: CNET News, Erictric, microsoft-journal …, 901am, Obsessable, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz and The Next Web, Thanks:indyan

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

A Look at Who's Getting What on Apple's IAds — Though Complexity, Delays Mean Most Won't Hit July 1 Rollout, Marketers Appear Excited by the Prospects — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The first of Apple's iAds are expected to start popping up on iPhones later this week, but don't expect …

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, 9 to 5 Mac, paidContent, FierceMobileContent and www.pocketgamer.biz

Alexander Vaughn / App Advice: iPad To Be Blessed By iOS 4 In November According To Apple?

Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:

Apple IPhone 4 Parts Cost About $188 — Researchers at iSuppli tore down the latest iPhone to find parts from LG Display, Samsung, and Broadcom — Apple's iPhone 4 wireless handset includes components that cost as little as $187.51, according to market research firm iSuppli.

Mickey Kataria / Google Mobile Blog:

Google Docs viewer on Mobile Browsers — (Cross-posted with the Google Docs Blog) — Last week, we announced that the Google Docs viewer supports .doc and .docx attachments. Today we're also releasing a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs …

Discussion: Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, PreCentral.net, AppScout, Erictric, The Next Web, Google Android News … and MacStories

The White House:

Presidential Memorandum: Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution — MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES — America's future competitiveness and global technology leadership depend, in part, upon the availability of additional spectrum.

Discussion: CNET News, GigaOM, High Tech Policy, dailywireless.org, techPresident, IntoMobile and Ubergizmo

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Broadband Availability to Expand

Discussion: mocoNews, Engadget, MediaPost, Reuters, Ars Technica, Associated Press, Wireless Week, Dow Jones Newswires, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Telecompetitor, Tech Eye, DSLreports and GMSV

Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
White House backs federal plan for more airwaves for smartphones, wireless broadband

Discussion: eWeek, Black Web 2.0 and Switched

CNET News:

Supreme Court sidesteps software patent issue — Anyone hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court would limit the ability to patent software will be disappointed by Monday's ruling. — The court ruled against patent applicants Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw (PDF), who in 1997 had tried to patent …

Discussion: The Register, TechCrunch, The Microsoft Blog, Ars Technica, Computerworld and ZDNet

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Bilski; Business Method & Software Patents Survive

Discussion: Bloomberg, Patent Law Blog, ReadWriteWeb and tieguy.org

Amazon.com:

Amazon Announces New Functionality for Kindle Apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch — Readers can now enjoy embedded video and audio clips in Kindle books on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new update to Kindle for iPad and Kindle …

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Elevation Invests Another $120 Million in Facebook as that IPO Looks More Distant — Elevation Partners has quietly amassed another huge chunk of Facebook shares on the secondary market, according to a recent letter to its limited partners. Elevation spent $120 million for five million more Facebook shares.

Discussion: VatorNews, MediaPost, Inside Facebook, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Fast Company, All Facebook and Pulse2

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hiring 500 People In India

Discussion: Inside Facebook, Digital Daily, Business Standard, Times of India and VentureBeat

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Google: Chrome OS Still On Track For This Year Thanks To “Deep Bench Of Talent” — Perhaps you've heard the news by now that Matthew Papakipos, the key architect of Chrome OS, is leaving Google to go to Facebook. While it's not entirely clear what Papakipos will be doing yet …

Discussion: Fortune and Computerworld

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook grabs Chrome OS engineering director, VMWare VP

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, CNET News, Inside Facebook and Mashable!

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

What iPhone? Here Come FOUR MORE Android Phones From Samsung (AAPL, GOOG) — One of Google Android's strengths relative to Apple's iPhone — at least from a market share and platform adoption perspective — is that it's quickly getting sprayed everywhere.

Discussion: MediaMemo and GottaBeMobile

Bonnie Cha / Crave: The gadget blog:
Samsung Galaxy S models announced for Sprint, Verizon, U.S. Cellular

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks — Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web - but what makes people want to do that at all? — Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week …

Discussion: MediaPost and Screenwerk, Thanks:the_spinmd

Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:

Google's mismanagement of the Android Market — Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google's response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users' permission to access sensitive information”.

Discussion: Fast Company, ZDNet, www.pocketgamer.biz and The Register, Thanks:atul

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:

Kindle For Android Now Available — The battle for the eBook / eReader market continues to heat up - Kindle for Android has come out of beta is now available in the Android Market (requires Android 1.6 or higher). On your phone, just go to the Android market and search for “Kindle” and read away!

Discussion: Android Phone Fans, Amazon.com, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily and Droid Life, Thanks:martinsfp

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Nokia muses on grip styles, says you can hold your phone ‘any way you like’ — If there's one company in the world who knows more about gripping phones than anyone else, it's Nokia — you know, the creator and sole proprietor of sidetalkin'. So on that note, you might want to sit …

Discussion: Nokia Conversations, App Advice, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, Fortune, iSmashPhone, Mashable!, Electronista, DailyTech, Computerworld, Erictric, IntoMobile, The Next Web, The Nokia Blog and Edible Apple

Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:

Rumor: Droid 2 will launch with Android 2.2 on August 23rd — A trustworthy source has just informed us that Verizon will be launching the Motorola Droid 2 on August 23rd. We recently got to go hands on with the device and the hardware was finalized so we believe that Verizon planned …

Discussion: AlienBabelTech, IntoMobile, Engadget, Droid Life, Erictric, PhoneDog.com, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, Gizmodo Australia, Boy Genius Report, Phone Arena and Gizmodo

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