Techmeme: Google Search Share Up After Instant, Yahoo Down After Bing Transition (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

1:25 PM ET, October 13, 2010

Top Items:

Apple holding ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20 — This just in: Apple will be holding a media event titled “Back to the Mac” on October 20. The invitation seems to indicate that the focus of the meeting will be on/around Mac OS X 10.7 — maybe to be called “Lion”? — and the Mac.

AppleInsider:
Apple shares crack $300 en-route to new all-time high

Discussion: Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors and www.pocketgamer.biz

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: Computerworld, Screenwerk, broadstuff and 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.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and WebProNews

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Executive Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location, Local Services

Discussion: Search Engine Roundtable, Bits, GMSV, Screenwerk, TechCrunch, VatorNews, The Register, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, paidContent, VentureBeat, FM Blog, Googling Google Blog, Erictric and Geek.com

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Apple Patents Anti-Sexting Device — Today the US Patent and Trademark 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” …

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 sync software for Macs due this year — Even though we kind of saw this coming, it's still nice to hear. Microsoft has gone and done the (nearly) unthinkable, announcing this evening plans for a Mac compatible sync client for its soon-to-be-launched Windows Phone 7 devices.

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

I Like to Dislike! Facebook Introduces Comment Voting, Threads — For those of you tirelessly campaigning for a dislike button, it looks like it's arrived, at least in some format. Facebook has upgraded its comments plugin and now allows users to up- and down-vote other comments …

Discussion: All Facebook, Mashable!, Techland, Fast Company, VatorNews, Softpedia News and The Register

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: New York Times, Post Tech, DSLreports, Hillicon Valley, TechEye, Obsessable, DailyTech, Electronista, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and VoIP Watch

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon May Have to Warn Mobile-Phone Users Topping Limits

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

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: GigaOM, NewTeeVee, Boy Genius Report, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, CrunchGear, Sony, Geeky-Gadgets, Newlaunches.com, Sony Insider, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, VentureBeat and dailywireless.org, more at Mediagazer »

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
How It Feels to Use Sony's First Google TV

Discussion: USA Today, Engadget, Bits, eHomeUpgrade, NBC Bay Area and Electronista

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 …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable!, TechEye, DailyTech, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, Newlaunches.com, Electricpig, Between the Lines Blog, Gearlog, Gizmodo, TG Daily, O'Grady's PowerPage, Geek.com, Softpedia News, PC World, Reuters, Pocket-lint, pocketnow.com, Phones Review, msnbc.com, Neowin.net, Podcasting News and PC Magazine, Thanks:dwire

Jonny Evans / Jonny Evans's blog:
Apple-hate myth: ‘Glass-gate’ makes headlines

Discussion: Computerworld and MacDailyNews

Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:

Android TweetDeck 1.0: Ready for Market — It's been a crazy couple months here at TweetDeck. We announced our public beta of Android TweetDeck on August 12th and since then we've done 11 releases, crushed millions of bugs and listened to a tonne of feedback.

Discussion: Droid Life, The Next Web, AndroidGuys and Android Police, Thanks:iaindodsworth

Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:
Android Ecosystem Infoporn Overload

Discussion: RCR Wireless News, Unwired View, Droid Life, The Next Web and IntoMobile

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Verizon's Android Success Augurs Well for Its iPhone — Verizon Wireless's embrace of Google Inc.'s Android operating system did more than provide the carrier with devices to compete with the iPhone. It also gave the company experience dealing with the data hogs who can hobble a wireless network.

Discussion: Geek.com, FierceWireless, IntoMobile, Phone Arena and Electronista

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

CarWoo unveils a better way to buy a car — As the influence of the Internet creeps into more and more of our lives, the car-buying process is one of the few areas that remains untouched — at least, that's what Tommy McClung, cofounder and chief executive of CarWoo, argues.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, PE Hub Blog, Xconomy and silicontap.com

Om Malik / GigaOM:

By the Numbers: Seed Funding Is the New Black — If Angelgate didn't prove it, then the following data will; there's a tinge of mania when it come to early- and seed-stage funding. The latest data from CB Insights, a market research firm that tracks the venture capital industry …

Discussion: CB Insights, Silicon Alley Insider, Fortune, A VC, Mass High Tech and Xconomy

Reuters:

Hon Hai to raise prices for Apple, others-report — * Stock up 1.3 pct, beating TAIEX's gain — Hon Hai (2317.TW), the world's largest electronic parts maker, will raise prices from October for some clients, including Apple (AAPL.O), according to a Citibank analyst, a Taiwan newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Discussion: App Advice, The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, MacStories, SlashGear, MacRumors and CrunchGear

eMarketer:

Email Still Tops Facebook for Keeping in Touch — Only 18- to 24-year-olds use the social networking site more than email for passing items on — Content-sharing has become a staple of internet usage for most online adults. Research from Chadwick Martin Bailey found that three-quarters …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Skeptic Geek

Matthew Scott / DailyFinance:

FourSquare Co-Founder: Credit Card Links and More User Rewards Likely — Dennis Crowley, co-founder of social networking website FourSquare, says businesses may soon offer consumers the option to link their credit card to their favorite social networking website, or the opportunity to earn …

Discussion: Internet2Go

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 Kan / Computerworld:

Microsoft Bing partners with Alibaba's Taobao search engine — Microsoft has found a new partner to promote it's Bing search engine technology in China by working with the country's largest online retailer Taobao.com to power web results for its new Etaosite.

Discussion: CNET News, Search Engine Journal and The Next Web

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Big media wants more piracy busting from Google — Filmmaker Ellen Seidler shows how a visit to a site that offers her pirated movie also displays ads via Google. — When it comes to fighting online piracy, some music and film industry executives think Google could be doing more to help.

Discussion: PlagiarismToday

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Beyond LinkedIn: 7 Degrees' visual, open social graph as business tool — A former Yahoo exec gets a funding injection for his plans to take on LinkedIn with a social graph that's more Google than (old school) AOL. — 7 Degrees, a developer of business applications based on the social graph …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Jun Yang / Bloomberg:

Apple Summoned by Korea Lawmakers Over IPhone Queries — Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. was summoned by South Korean lawmakers to answer questions about the company's iPhone- service policy amid complaints from local users, parliamentary officials said. — Farrel Farhoudi …

Discussion: Inquirer, Macsimum News, MacNN, SlashGear and 9 to 5 Mac

Erica Naone / Technology Review:

Microsoft's 3-D Strategy — Microsoft's Craig Mundie describes how the company's vision of 3-D gaming could extend to all computer interactions. — Microsoft has joined the wave of companies betting that 3-D is the next big thing for computing. At a recent talk at MIT …

David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:

Zuckerberg's Residence at Issue in Facebook Suit — Lawyers for a man who claims he is entitled to 84% of Facebook Inc. argued Wednesday that the social-networking site's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, lives a transient life out of a duffel bag. — In a hearing in a federal courthouse in Buffalo …

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 1:25 PM ET, October 13, 2010.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Techmeme Sponsor Posts:

Meta:

Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.

Zoho:

The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.

Genesys:

Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.

Tribe AI:

Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.

Sponsor Techmeme

Who's Hiring in Tech?