Techmeme: 100,000 Applications In Android Market? Not Just Yet (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)

6:55 AM ET, July 16, 2010

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The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation — The New York Times is the number one newspaper web site. Analysts reckon it ranks first in reach among US opinion leaders. When the New York Times editorial staff tweaks its supersecret algorithm behind what to cover …

Discussion: Softpedia News, FM Blog, UMBC ebiquity and Technology Liberation Front, more at Mediagazer »

Adam Kovacevich / Google Public Policy Blog:

Our op-ed: Regulating what is “best” in search? — Google's Marissa Mayer wrote in the Financial Times today about the impact for consumers of governments potentially regulating search results. Because the article is behind the FT's paywall, we thought we'd share the complete text here …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Google Exec Says It's A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet

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New York Times:
The Google Algorithm — Google handles nearly two-thirds …

Discussion: NBC Bay Area, The Precursor Blog, Relevant Results, Financial Times and Tech Trader Daily, more at Mediagazer »

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

Apple Is Not Expected to Recall Troubled iPhone — SAN FRANCISCO — As Apple prepared to address the mounting controversy surrounding the antenna of the iPhone 4, one thing appeared clear: the company does not plan to recall the popular device. — A person with direct knowledge of Apple's plans …

Discussion: Tech Eye, I4U News, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, MacRumors, NBC Bay Area, MacRumors Page 2 and AppleInsider

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPhone 4: 50% chance of an in-store fix

Stuart Parmenter / The Mozilla Blog:

Get Firefox Home on Your iPhone! — We are happy to announce that the wait is over. — Firefox Home, a free application, is now available for download on your iPhone or iPod Touch. — Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone.

Discussion: Telegraph, Technologizer, Mashable, Fast Company, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, pluGGd.in, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Erictric, Neowin.net, MacRumors iPhone Blog and Engadget

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

Apple Tried To Buy Palm Before HP Won The Bidding War — And RIM Completely Blew The Deal — The race to buy Palm earlier this year was fast and hot, with the company's bankers contacting 16 companies about the deal, including five serious potential suitors. — HP won the bake-off, acquiring Palm for $1.2 billion in late April.

Discussion: Engadget, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, MacRumors, Macworld, App Advice, CNET News, PhoneDog.com, Erictric, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, everythingiCafe, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, Edible Apple, MobileCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac and PreCentral.net

Google Investor Relations:

Google Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. — “Google had a strong second quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Solid growth in our core business and very strong growth …

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The iPhone 4 Redux: Analyzing Apple's iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue — In case you haven't noticed, the iPhone 4's antenna design has come under considerable scrutiny. In our iPhone 4 review, we investigated the iPhone 4 antenna and came to two conclusions.

Discussion: SlashGear, Ars Technica, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, AppleInsider, parislemon, Fortune, TiPb, Edible Apple, CNNMoney.com and Gizmodo, Thanks:nerdtalker

Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Apple Releases iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G

Discussion: MacRumors and Elliott C. Back, Thanks:taimurasad

Bloomberg:

Apple Engineer Told Jobs IPhone Antenna Might Cut Calls — Apple Inc.'s senior antenna expert voiced concern to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs in the early design phase of the iPhone 4 that the antenna could lead to dropped calls, a person familiar with the matter said.

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Says Bloomberg iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Report Is “Simply Not True”

Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:

Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster — Microsoft's demos of its great mobile hope shows Windows Phone 7 to be only a tepid knockoff of a 2007-era iPhone — There's no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure. Announced to much bravado in February as the platform …

Discussion: PC World, MobileContentToday, Computerworld and WMExperts

Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:

Reality Check: Modding the DROID X may not lead to a bricked phone — A post by p3Droid on the My Droid World forums claims to shed some light on the rumored locked bootloader of the DROID X. According to the posting, the Droid X ships with an e-fuse chip that locks the bootloader and will brick the phone if the bootloader is modified.

Discussion: Fortune, PC World, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, eWeek, Erictric, MobileCrunch, Techdirt, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, The Tech Report, Ars Technica, AndroidSPIN, The Tech Herald …, Android Police and CrunchGear

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Motorola Droid X Review

Discussion: GigaOM, Boy Genius Report and The Next Web

Tricia Duryee / paidContent:

HTC's Plan For Smartphone Domination — For most of HTC's existence, it was a little-known cellphone manufacturer making more Windows Mobile phones than anyone else in the world. Now the Taiwanese company has ambitions to create its own brand and be recognized as making the best Android smartphones.

Boy Genius Report:

Exclusive: Apple's FaceTime coming to iPod touch, iPad, we detail how — One of our reliable Apple connections (not Jason Burford) just let us know some pretty fantastic news. It's been widely assumed that Apple will start to roll out their FaceTime real-time communication protocol …

Discussion: ZDNet, Pulse2, VentureBeat, GeekSmack, IntoMobile, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, RazorianFly, Electricpig.co.uk, MacStories, GottaBeMobile, Cult of Mac, Engadget and MacRumors

reddit:

“Experts” misunderestimate our traffic, and we don't know why — In today's installment of “reddit needs moar money”, we visit the topic of our traffic numbers. Here's a screenshot of our Google Analytics page: (Note to the Photoshop Gimp Police: The screenshots in this blog post …

Discussion: The Next Web

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

MySpace gets a huge update with really slick profile pages. — Yes, really. — The social media maven that time seems to have forgotten has perhaps just thrown down the gauntlet in the world of social profiles. To be honest, this is the one place where MySpace always really excelled, and something that Facebook is sorely missing.

Discussion: Mashable

Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

‘Junkware’ comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones — Remember the golden days of personal computing when you'd bring home that expensive wonder box, remove the machine from its Styrofoam swaddling, plug it in, switch it on and — hey! What's this? — AOL? Quicken SE?

Discussion: Internet2Go, Thanks:electricwaffles

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Twitter Continues To Help You Figure Out Who Exactly Is Following You — It looks like Twitter's notification emails that are sent when you have a new follower are getting a much-needed makeover. A search on Twitter has confirmed that the new emails are being rolled out to users.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Silicon Alley Insider

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

100,000 Applications In Android Market? Not Just Yet — Engadget and InformationWeek are reporting that AndroLib, which gathers all kinds of statistics on the Android Market, pegs the number of Android applications in the store at 100,000. My question is: where are they getting that from?

Discussion: Electronista, InformationWeek, Engadget, Fone Arena, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileCrunch and Phone Arena, Thanks:robinwauters

DigiTimes:

Apple readies 11.6-inch MacBook Air and new iPod touch — Apple is ready to launch a new generation MacBook Air featuring an 11.6-inch display and Intel Core i-series ultra-low voltage processor in the second half of 2010, as well as a new iPod touch in August or September.

Discussion: Pulse2, Mobility Site, MobileContentToday, bit-tech.net, Electricpig.co.uk, Computerworld, TechSpot and Digital Trends

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