Techmeme: Google TV products available this weekend (Jefferson Graham/USA Today)

2:10 AM ET, October 13, 2010

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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google Executive Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location, Local Services — Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.'s vice president of search products, is taking a new role overseeing location and local services. — Mayer, who joined in 1999 as the company's first female engineer …

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:

Mayer to Location: Big. — Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company. Their job: market research, essentially. They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years.

Discussion: Mashable!

S.K. Neff / Politically Illustrated:

Google's Marissa Mayer Resigns Ahead of Bing Redesign — WASHINGTON (Politically Illustrated) - Google's Marissa Mayer, vice president of search product and user experience, might be cute, but she has failed to transform Google's search product into a streamline product like Bing.

Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:

Sony's GoogleTV lineup: $400-$1,400 — At a press event in New York today, Sony is showing off its lineup of GoogleTV products, including a Blu-ray player and Wi-Fi TVs with the Google software built in. — I'm not there but am watching the live coverage and company releases.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, GigaOM and Electronista

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:

How It Feels to Use Sony's First Google TV — Sony's Internet TVs are here, and we are live at their debut with hands on. So how does it feel to use the world's first Google TV-powered HDTV? — The Keypad Is Comfortable and Difficult — Okay, we'll admit, I thought this was a monstrosity.

Discussion: Pocket-lint, Bits, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, NBC Bay Area, paidContent, Engadget, Gadget Lab and Obsessable

Jefferson Graham / USA Today:

Google TV products available this weekend — Google TV will finally be available this Saturday, Sony says. The electronics giant just unveiled its line of Google TV products, including televisions and Blu-ray players, at a press conference in New York. — Each of the devices includes …

Discussion: Sony, Sony Insider, Pluggd.in, eHomeUpgrade, SONY make.believe, Android Community, Business Wire, dailywireless.org, ProgrammableWeb, Crave, Google TV Blog and Gizmodo

Jake Brill / Facebook Blog:

More Ways to Stay Secure — Facebook provides a number of ways to help you protect yourself and your account, and today we are announcing new features to help make your experience on Facebook more secure. — First, we're launching one-time passwords to make it safer to use public computers in places like hotels, cafes or airports.

Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric:
Facebook Introduces New Ability to Create Temporary Password Through SMS

Discussion: Loic Le Meur Blog

SquareTrade:

iPhone 4 glass breaking 82% more than iPhone 3gs - four months in — SquareTrade analyzed iPhone accidents for over 20,000 iPhone 4s covered by SquareTrade Care Plans and found a 82% increase in reported broken screens compared to the iPhone 3gs. Highlights of the study include …

Amazon.com:

Kindle Singles, Which Can Be Twice the Length of a New Yorker Feature or as Much as a Few Chapters of a Typical Book, Coming Soon to the Kindle Store — Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century—works either …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Apple Patents Anti-Sexting Device — Today the US patent office approved a patent Apple filed in 2008, which, get this, prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages. The patent's official title? “Text-based communication control for personal communication device” …

Discussion: freepatentsonline.com, Gawker, ReadWriteWeb and 9 to 5 Mac

Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:

Windows Phone 7 and removable storage — So, there's been some confusion around Windows Phone 7 and its support of removable/expandable storage. As is so often the case, this confusion comes from Microsoft: The company told me specifically (and repeatedly) that the OS would not support this.

Discussion: IntoMobile, WMPoweruser.com, PhoneDog.com, everythingWM and Phone Arena

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Can Digg Apologize Its Way Back to Popularity? — It's hard not to feel sorry for new Digg CEO Matt Williams. The poor guy has only been on the job for a little over a month, after replacing founder Kevin Rose as chief executive in August, and his first major appearance is on a blog post …

Discussion: The Next Web

Matt Williams / Digg Blog:
Greetings from the new CEO — I'd like to use this opportunity to introduce myself.

Discussion: The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Gawker, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, CNET News and Erictric

Andru Edwards / Gear Live:

Amazon iPhone app now supports barcode scanning for price comparison — Amazon just updated their Amazon Mobile app for iPhone to now include barcode scanning. Basically, while you are out and about shopping, you can use your iPhone to scan the barcode of whatever you are thinking of buying …

Discussion: Gizmodo

Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:

Android Ecosystem Infoporn Overload — As we bring our initial Android TweetDeck beta period to a close, we wanted to quickly reflect on the Android ecosystem and what might be considered extreme fragmentation. To date we've had 36,427 active beta testers and below you can see the massive variety …

Discussion: Eurodroid

Michael Gillett / Neowin.net:

WP7 and Zune syncing available for Mac soon — In a surprise move, Microsoft UK's head of Windows Phone marketing, Oded Ran, tweeted that Mac users will be able to sync Windows Phone 7 devices with a version of the Zune software for Macs. This tweet has since been removed from Twitter.

Discussion: Engadget, CNET News, MacRumors, Phone Arena, MacStories, BlogsDNA, WPCentral.com, Gizmodo, TechConnect Magazine and WMPoweruser.com, Thanks:findingnewo

Michael Hirschorn / The Atlantic Online:

Truth Lies Here — How can Americans talk to one another—let alone engage in political debate—when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts? — THIS PAST AUGUST, the left-leaning San Francisco-based Web site AlterNet posted a remarkable scoop: members of a group calling itself …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Kleiner Perkins Harvests Over $100 Million From Ngmoco Acquisition — It's a good day for ngmoco, which was just acquired by Japan's DeNA for up to $400 million. But it's also a good day for ngmoco's first investor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In one deal they've completely paid off …

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, GigaOM, VentureBeat, MediaMemo, Edge Magazine and 9 to 5 Mac

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest — Another reputation smeared in the Hewlett-Packard/Oracle slag-fest. Turns out Joe Nocera (pictured here), the New York Times (NYT) business columnist who penned that scathing piece on former SAP chief and incoming Hewlett-Packard …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Enterprise Irregulars, CNET News and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Mediagazer »

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

People With Cell Phones, The FCC Has Your Back — The Federal Communications Commission may be struggling in its attempts to create real network neutrality rules, but it's having better luck with pushing consumer-friendly reforms in the wireless business. Tomorrow FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski plans …

Discussion: Post Tech and New York Times

Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:

The Tough Terms of Selling a Tech Company — Selling a closely held tech company these days is no picnic-especially after the sale of the firm has already closed. — That's the message according to a new study by Shareholder Representative Services LLC, which manages the post-closing process in M&A transactions of private companies.

Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:

Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding — Microsoft has been granted a key patent that defines one of the primary uses of graphics processors in the future: Video encoding. — Since the dawn of GPU-accelerated computing in the consumer space, it has been video encoding …

Discussion: Ubergizmo, VizWorld.com, WinBeta and Crave

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Making sense of Google's seemingly kooky concepts — SAN FRANCISCO — In its self-proclaimed drive to make the world a better place, Google has immersed itself in far more than Internet search and online ads. But driverless cars and a wind energy farm in the Atlantic Ocean?

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple Removes AirPlay From Youtube App In Latest iOS Beta — It seems like something's going on around the “AirPlay button working everywhere” so many people were excited about: specifically, we just noticed Apple removed AirPlay support in the native Youtube app on iOS 4.2 Beta 3.

Discussion: App Advice, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MWD Tech News, TheAppleBlog and MacRumors

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