Techmeme: “Here You Have” Virus May Be Linked To Libyan Hacker (Andy Greenberg/The Firewall)

5:05 PM ET, September 10, 2010

Top Items:

Android Will Blow Past Apple And RIM To Become Second Biggest Mobile OS This Year — Google's Android will become the second-biggest mobile operating system in the world sometime this year, according to the latest report from Gartner. — Nokia's Symbian will have more marketshare …

Nokia:

Nokia appoints Stephen Elop to President and CEO as of September 21, 2010 — Espoo, Finland -Nokia's Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Elop President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of September 21. Elop currently heads Microsoft's Business Division.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Can a Microsoft man fix Nokia? Here are 6 things that have to happen

Discussion: Stowe Boyd, Fast Company and SlashGear

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Nokia Makes The Same Mistake Again: Hires A Manager, Not A Product Visionary

Discussion: TechFlash and Microsoft

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Nokia Ousts Kallasvuo; Names Microsoft's Elop CEO

Byron Acohido / USA Today:

Bing exec: Google Instant may be fast, but Bing results are smarter — Not to take anything away from the top-flight Google engineers responsible for Google Instant, but a young Australian tech geek, named Long Zheng , tweaked Microsoft's Bing search engine to do the same basic functions back in August 2009.

Discussion: Microsoft Watch, Search Engine Journal, istartedsomething, LiveSide.net and Nine By Blue, Thanks:atul

Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO

Discussion: Fast Company, MediaMemo and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:atul

Shashi Seth / Yahoo! Search Blog:
Back to the Future: Innovation is Alive in Search

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and DailyFinance

Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:

Google: ‘Android not optimised for tablets’ — Gingerbread seems likely to be tablet-friendly OS — Google has stated that it currently isn't using Android on any tablets, hinting that it will have a tablet-centric OS soon. — Although Gingerbread and Honeycomb have been strongly tipped …

WMUR:

Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook Posts — Off-Duty Police Officer Who Heard Fireworks Credited With Cracking Case — NASHUA, N.H. — Nashua police are crediting an alert off-duty police officer who heard fireworks with cracking a burglary ring that targeted homes known to be empty because of Facebook postings.

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, Geek.com and Switched

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines — It's finally happened. Bloglines,the troubled RSS feed reader owned by IAC, will officially be shut down, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The site has had a tumultuous history, so it's unsurprising that IAC has finally put the platform out of its misery.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider and The Blog Herald

The Ask.com Blog:

Bloglines Update — Today, Ask.com let our users know that we will shut down Bloglines on October 1. Not an easy decision, especially considering our loyal and supportive (not to mention patient) user base, but, ultimately, the right one given business reasons simply too hard to ignore.

Discussion: Computerworld, The Next Web, Network World and Quick Online Tips

Bloomberg:

JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone for E-Mail as More Bankers Bypass BlackBerry — JPMorgan Chase & Co. may soon let employees use iPhones for corporate e-mail, making it an alternative to Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry at the bank for the first time, two people familiar with the situation said.

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, MediaMemo, SiliconANGLE, Macsimum News, Electronista, TiPb, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, DailyFinance and LOOPRumors

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

Newsday's Ad For Its iPad App Is Brilliant — Newsday just released the funniest, most clever ad for an iPad application we've ever seen. Enjoy! — Get Alerts for these topics » — Short URL … Blackboard Home » … Sponsored Link: — Receive email updates on new comments!

Discussion: TUAW, Laughing Squid and MediaMemo

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple to discontinue free iPhone Bumper Case program on Sept. 30 — When Steve Jobs announced during a press conference in July that all iPhone 4 users would receive a free case, he set a deadline of September 30 to reevaluate the program. Apple has, and they will discontinue it.

Discussion: Digital Daily, ZDNet, Boy Genius Report, Jonny Evans's blog, Fortune, Macworld, CNET News, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, AppleInsider, TechFlash, MacRumors, Erictric, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, MacNN, iLounge and Engadget

Jeff Gillis / Google Analytics Blog:

More On Instant Search — Since this week's launch of Instant Search, we've been asked how to track Instant Search in Google Analytics, and in particular, whether it's possible to see partial Instant Search queries in your reports. — You actually don't need to do anything to track Instant Search queries in Google Analytics.

Discussion: Xconomy, Lauren Weinstein's Blog and The Microsoft Blog

Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
The Side-Effects of Google Instant

Discussion: The Official Google Blog

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Office for Mac 2011 coming October 26th according to Amazon — Earlier today we reported on a rumor that Office for Mac 2011 will be launching on October 27th, but tonight we've discovered otherwise. When browsing for Office for Mac 2011 on Amazon there's a noted date of October 26th …

Discussion: Computerworld, All about Microsoft Blog, The Next Web, TUAW, Neowin.net, Gizmodo and Go Rumors, Thanks:beautifulcode

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Provides us with a Peek at Spirals, a new iTunes UI Feature — It's no secret that Steve Jobs has had a serious cube fetish over the years. So he's decided to shake things up a bit this year and shift his passion to all things spiral and/or cylindrical.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Gearlog and SlashGear

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

How The “Focus On First” Helps Hide Google's Relevancy Problems — In January, I was invited to speak to Google's search quality team about issues I had with Google's search results. My topic? For queries where I know a subject really well, I often found Google provided some pretty poor results …

Discussion: Conversation Marketing and Google Watch

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

Facetime coming to iChat, Windows? — Mac4ever this morning posts that Facetime, Apple's open source video chatting protocol, will be coming to iChat very soon, adding desktop Macs to the machines that are able to video chat with Apple's camera-wielding iOS devices.

Discussion: IntoMobile, TiPb, TUAW, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, Macsimum News, MacRumors, App Advice, Engadget and Covering Web

Jon Udell / O'Reilly Radar:

Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? — Last week Twitter ended basic name/password authentication to its API. This was announced well in advance. Still, like many procrastinators, I found myself scrambling to learn what is now the only available way to authenticate to the Twitter API: OAuth.

Alyson Shontell / War Room:

Why I Quit My CTO Job At Facebook And Started Quora — When Adam D'Angelo quit his job as Facebook's CTO in January, the blogosphere was buzzing. — It was, after all, his second time quitting Facebook, the hottest company in Silicon Valley. — But months later, the young talent reappeared …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

BBC:

Sex movie worm spreads worldwide — The worm spreads using tricks pioneered by worms such as the ILoveYou virus — A booby-trapped e-mail that promises free sex movies is racking up victims around the world, warn security firms. — Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to PDF that a recipient has been told to expect.

Discussion: TechNet Blogs, PC World, TrendLabs, Techland, gHacks Technology News, Help Net Security, CyberCrime & Doing Time, ABCNEWS, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Dennis Fisher, Lockergnome Blog Network, V3.co.uk, SC Magazine US, McAfee Avert Labs, Switched and eWeek

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
“Here You Have” Virus May Be Linked To Libyan Hacker

Discussion: Graham Cluley's blog, Mashable! and CrunchGear, Thanks:seo_philly

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

Wordpress Channels Tumblr with Subscriptions — Blogging platform WordPress has been working hard lately to increase a sense of community on the site. Last month, WordPress.com users got the ability to “like” each others' posts and today, the site is introducing a subscription feature.

Discussion: The Blog Herald, WordPress.com News and The Next Web

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