Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:15 PM ET, October 15, 2010

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
White iPhone spotted in New York, owner explains why you haven't got one yet  —  So there we were, in a lift at a press event in New York City, when we spotted a white iPhone 4 strutting its stuff in the hands of a mystery man.  —  A bit of covert photography later, that would make even the …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google's Income Rises 32%, Topping Forecast  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google has spent the last few months arguing to anyone who will listen that its new advertising businesses — including ads with images and video and on cellphones — will fuel its next phase of growth.
RELATED:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Google, Capex Costs are Worth The Money
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Schmidt On Social: “We Want People To Be More Logged Into Google.”
Discussion: FM Blog
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript  —  Here's a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs.  —  It's long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things.  —  UPDATE: Here's an audio version …
Eduardo Saverin / CNBC Guest Blog:
Facebook Co-Founder Speaks Publicly: What I Learned From Watching “The Social Network”  —  Imagine sitting in a movie theater, and when the lights dim and credits roll, you see your life unfold on the screen.  —  I recently had this opportunity as I watched, with amazement and humility …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Why Microsoft?  Ballmer's reply to underwhelmed college student  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer drew a large crowd of students at the University of Washington computer science department today, giving a broad overview of the company and the direction of the tech industry.
Discussion: The Register
David Winograd / TUAW:
The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure  —  It's been over six months since the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and the simultaneous launch of iBooks and the iBookstore, which promised to give Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Store a run for its money.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and TeleRead
David Kaplan / paidContent:
NYT Replaces Editors' Choice iPad App With Full Version—Free For Now  —  You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad?  You're getting it—and eventually, you'll have to pay to get all of it.  The NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) flagship is updating its Editors' Choice iPad app with an expanded version …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Angry Birds set to flutter onto Android phones  —  Angry Birds broke all of the records on the Apple App Store in the past 10 months, selling more than 7 million copies.  Soon, it will be available on phones running Google Android software.  —  Rovio, the Helsinki-based developer of Angry Birds …
RELATED:
Bill Ray / The Register:   Angry Birds addicts crash GetJar site
Guardian:
WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting  —  Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website's donations  —  The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Verizon to offer data plans for iPad of up to 5GB for $50, with a catch  —  Following its initial announcement on sales of the iPad this morning, Verizon has provided more detailed information on the MiFi 2200 rates and data plans it intends to offer customers alongside the Apple tablet …
RELATED:
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
AMD holding off on tablets, admits iPad cannibalizing notebooks  —  AMD Chief Executive Dirk Meyer weighed in on the iPad's impact on sales of netbooks and notebooks, surmising that Apple's tablet has cannibalized both.  Meanwhile, the company is waiting for the market to develop …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Exclusive: High-Profile Hires for Palm-Nokia's Ari Jaaksi and Samsung's Victoria Coleman  —  Earlier this month, Ari Jaaksi resigned as head of Nokia's MeeGo division, citing “personal reasons” as the cause for his departure.  —  Turns out “personal reasons” was actually a euphemism for “I'm joining Palm.”
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Rollover image on your website?  That will be $80,000 (please)  —  “Dear website owner, congratulations on your excellent site, which includes features covered by our registered patent, #5,251,294.  As the description indicates, many of the components on your pages, particularly your menus …
Bobby Caina Calvan / Sacramento Bee:
Talk about going viral: Touch-screen devices can harbor flu germs  —  A squeeze, a flick, a touch - but keep those grimy, germ-infested hands off that iPhone.  Who knows where those fingers have been?  —  Personal touch-screen devices - iPads, BlackBerrys and Droids - are now seemingly everywhere …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Places Updates Reviews Section, Yelp Is Back  —  Google just announced an update of the reviews section of Google Places, which essentially separates reviews from sites like Yelp, Zagat, Citygrid and others into separate category, called “Reviews From Around The Web.”
Discussion: Google LatLong
Christy Pettey / Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Media Tablet Sales on Pace to Reach 19.5 Million Units in 2010  —  Media Tablet Sales to Grow 181 Percent in 2011  —  Driven by sales of the iPad, worldwide media tablet sales to end users are forecast to reach 19.5 million units in 2010, according to Gartner …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Listens To Users, Brings Back “Clear Chat History”  —  One somewhat overlooked side effect of last week's Facebook Groups launch was the inexplicable disappearance of the “Clear Chat History” button from Facebook Chat, which is currently undergoing some hardcore product changes due to the Groups introduction.
Discussion: All Facebook and msnbc.com
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Copy-Protected DRM Site Hacked By Anonymous  —  A site run by the MPAA has become the most recent victim of cyber attacks being carried out by Anonymous.  CopyProtected.com, a site used to inform on copy protection and DRM on DVD and Blu-ray movie discs, now displays a missive from the anarchic group .
John R. Quain / New York Times:
Cars Born to Run With Smartphone Apps  —  MOST auto dealers will tell you that more buyers ask about how to connect an iPhone to a car or about the latest collision avoidance systems than they do about how quickly a car goes from zero to 60.  So automakers are pumping up the technology.
Joey Sneddon / OMG!:
Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity … If you thought multi-touch merriment was the sole preserve of those with vowel-prefixed devices then think again.  —  Canonical's Gerry Carr has posted a neat video demonstration of Ubuntu 10.10′s new multi-touch features in action with the Ubuntu Unity interface.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 2:15 PM ET, October 15, 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.
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.
Zoho:
CIO challenge 5: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs?  —  Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series!  After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Are Windows Phone 7 slates waiting in the wings?  Don't get your hopes up
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Index, Union Square Likes SoundCloud's Web-Based Tune
Bloomberg:
TPG Said to Be in Talks to Buy Seagate for $7.5 Billion With KKR
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T to sell iPads direct to the enterprise
Discussion: PR Newswire and AppleInsider
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
AOL-Yahoo: like the Mets buying the Cubs
Discussion: Mixed Media, Computerworld and Salon
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Lessons From Silicon Valley VC Legend Don Valentine
Christopher Lawton / Digits:
Nokia Prepares to Give Developers a Look at High-End System
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
TED's Chris Anderson: “Video is Redefining the Spoken Word”
Discussion: MacStories
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Is the Valley Falling out of Love with Options?
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
National Schools Film Week sports seriously NSFW domain
Discussion: Switched and CNET News
Greg Sterling / Internet2Go:
Pew: 85% of US Adults Have Mobile Phones, One in Ten (High Earners) Own Tablets
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Puck Yeah: Clearwire's 4G Hotspot Can Replace Broadband [Review]
Discussion: DSLreports and I4U News
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
FCC fixes CableCard rules; CableCard market likely to stay broken
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Netflix on PS3 gets 1080p, adds 5.1 surround, loses the disc
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page