Techmeme: Release The Kraken — We're pleased to announce the first version … (Rsayre/Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog)

5:35 PM ET, September 14, 2010

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Inline Pictures And Video Are A Part Of What Twitter Is Announcing Tonight — The entire Internet seems to be guessing about what Twitter is going to unveil at their big event later this afternoon. Analytics, deeper Google integration, the killer business model?

Discussion: Mashable!, Geekosystem, Silicon Alley Insider and MediaPost

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Employees Excited About Twitter's “Big Night” Tonight, But Aren't Giving Much Away

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Neon Tommy and Mobile Entertainment, Thanks:atul

Robert Andrews / mocoNews:

‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; 'We're Not Sorry We're Not Apple' — Nokia's beaten-down top dogs opened their annual Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World show in London Tuesday morning with a blunt and rousing pep talk and a direct riposte to their competitors. — “We're not going to apologise for the fact …

Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:
A Week with the Nokia N8: Can Symbian Survive?

Discussion: broadstuff and Engadget

Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia makes E7 QWERTY slider official: ‘beautiful and all business’ (update: specs)

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

HDCP ‘master key’ supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently — Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open.

Discussion: Geek.com, Boing Boing, Geekosystem, gHacks Technology News, CrunchGear, Inquirer, DailyTech, Slyck, Electronista, GeekSmack, Neowin.net and MacNN

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
HDCP ‘Master Key’ Found? Another Form Of DRM Drops Dead

Discussion: BetaNews, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Computerworld, I4U News, TechSpot, Ars Technica and TeleRead

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Nielsen: Bing Passes Yahoo To Become #2 Search Engine — According to Nielsen data out this morning Microsoft's Bing has passed Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. Nielsen says that Google's August share is 65% (and growth is flat) but that Bing and Yahoo have now switched places:

Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Bing overtakes Yahoo, and that's not a good thing

Discussion: Technologizer, TechFlash, Microsoft Watch, Seattle Times and ConceivablyTech

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:

How to get a job at Google, interview questions, hiring process — The Google hiring process is designed to hire the most talented, creative, and articulate people in the world who will be the best fit for Google. The Google culture is different. You notice it the moment you walk on campus.

Discussion: Google Watch and The Next Web, Thanks:dondodge

Rsayre / Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog:

Release The Kraken — We're pleased to announce the first version of Kraken, a new browser benchmark. More than Sunspider, V8, and Dromaeo, Kraken focuses on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. We believe that the benchmarks used in Kraken are better in terms …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Softpedia News

Ben Bowers / Engadget:

Google TV officially launching October 17th? — It's been no secret that Google TV is scheduled to arrive sometime this fall and we've already seen the Logitech Revue box hardware pass the FCC, but a tipster has just shared an internal Best Buy document with us disclosing …

Discussion: The Toybox Blog, The Digital Home, Black Web 2.0, TechSpot, Fortune, Go Rumors, Fast Company, Gadgetell, GeekSugar, I4U News, Ubergizmo, GeekSmack, Androidos.in and Pulse2

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Forget Phones, Google Gives Top Advertisers Google TV

Discussion: Digital Daily, eHomeUpgrade and Silicon Alley Insider

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

GCreep: Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats — We entrust Google with our most private communications because we assume the company takes every precaution to safeguard our data. It doesn't. A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses.

Discussion: The Next Web

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

QOTD: The Ninja Throwing Stars? They're For My Friend Larry Ellison ... Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he'll never come back to Japan after officials at an airport barred him from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private plane, SPA! magazine reported in its latest issue.

Pew Internet:

The Rise of Apps Culture — Some 35% of U.S. adults have software applications or “apps” on their phones, yet only 24% of adults use those apps. Many adults who have apps on their phones, particularly older adults, do not use them, and 11% of cell owners are not sure if their phone is equipped with apps.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Post Tech, Nieman Journalism Lab, Hillicon Valley and textually.org, more at Mediagazer »

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Nokia hires Peter Skillman, former Palm Design VP, as MeeGo user experience chief (update: confirmed) — Now this, this is what we call exciting. Nokia has managed to scoop up Peter Skillman from the wreckage of the HP/Palm merger. One of the many senior VPs to leave Palm upon its assimilation …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, Electronista and PreCentral.net

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

IBM Chief Slams H-P — International Business Machines Corp. chief Samuel J. Palmisano stepped into the debate around Hewlett-Packard Co., sharply criticizing his rival for its expensive acquisition of 3PAR Inc. and giving a large severance package to former chief executive Mark Hurd.

Discussion: The Register, Hillicon Valley, Tech Trader Daily, Digits, Between the Lines Blog, DailyFinance, TheStreet.com and Voices on All Things Digital

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Twitter is NOT a Social Network, Says Twitter Exec — Kevin Thau, Twitter's VP for business and corporate development, announced during a presentation at Nokia World 2010 today that everyone's favorite micro-blogging network is not actually a social network. — It's not, you say?

Discussion: Pretzel Logic, Download Squad, Mashable! and The Next Web

Chris Burritt / Bloomberg:

Best Buy to Start Selling IPad in All U.S. Stores — Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) — Best Buy Co., the world's largest consumer-electronics retailer, plans to start selling Apple Inc.'s iPad in all of its U.S. stores on Sept. 26 to boost holiday sales, Chief Executive Officer Brian Dunn said.

Discussion: Erictric

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Ron Conway's Confidential Investment Guide: The Tech Megatrends — Angel investors SV Angel, led by Ron Conway invests so early in startups that he looks mostly at the team and current tech trends when making investment decisions. — Last year he was focusing on real time and location startups.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider and broadstuff

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Zillow Replaces C.E.O. and Hints at a Public Offering — Is Zillow, the real estate Web site, getting ready to go public? — On Tuesday, Zillow announced that its co-founder and chief executive, Rich Barton, would step down as chief executive and become executive chairman.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Digital Home, Local Onliner, GigaOM, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, BoomTown and PE Hub Blog

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

RealNetworks acquires Canadian social game company Backstage Technologies — Pushing fast into social games, RealNetworks has acquired Canadian social game company Backstage Technologies for an undisclosed price. — The move will gives RealNetworks' GameHouse division access …

Discussion: paidContent, The Seattle Times, Tech Trader Daily and Xconomy

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

DEMO: Parallels launches mobile virtualization app for iPad and iPhone — Parallels is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog, jkOnTheRun and down the avenue

Paul McNamara / Network World:

Linus Torvalds becomes an American citizen — Having brought his open-source work and family to the United States from Finland some time ago, Linus Torvalds has marked an important personal milestone by attaining U.S. citizenship. — Congratulations, Linus.

Discussion: The H Open Source, Silicon Forest and Geekosystem

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Evan Williams Coughed Up $7,500 For Twitter.com Back In The Day — Mid-2006, when Twitter was born, the domain name Twitter.com changed hands for $7,500, chief executive and co-founder Evan Williams tweeted yesterday night. — Roughly four years, 145 million users and 300,000 third-party applications later …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Domain Name Wire and Computerworld

Brad Linder / Liliputing:

Dell previews the DUO 10 inch convertible tablet-style notebook — We've seen a lot of companies introduce slate-style tablets without physical keyboards over the past few months, but once upon a time the words “tablet computer” brought up a different image — of a laptop with touchscreen display …

Discussion: PC Magazine, Electronista, Engadget, CNET News, UMPCPortal, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Obsessable, eHomeUpgrade and Techland

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

The Google Zeitgeist Press Lunch — Google's holding a press lunch at their Zeitgeist event in Phoenix, AZ. CEO Eric Schmidt, SVP Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg and President of Revenue Nikesh Arora. — These are free for all Q&A sessions with members of the press.

Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:

Instead of IPOs, startups look to be acquired — The market for initial public offerings remains badly broken in the aftermath of the financial panic of 2008, but its malaise began even earlier. — “The ecosystem that allowed young companies to go public has been destroyed,” …

Discussion: MediaPost and Silicon Alley Insider

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