Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:20 PM ET, May 27, 2011

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone … HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi.  —  A rough estimate of the number of HTC Android devices shipped is 30 million.  If HTC paid $5 per unit to Microsoft, that adds up to $150 million Android revenues for Microsoft.
RELATED:
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi  —  Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning.  —  Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Bit More On WWDC, The Mythical iPhone “4S”, and iOS 5  —  With WWDC quickly approaching, the rumor mills are heating up with what we should expect at Apple's annual conference known for big announcements.  We've learned a little bit more that speaks to what to expect — including a couple of big, widely-requested things.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS  —  Out of 72,000 paid apps in Google's Android Market, only two have sold more than 500,000 copies  —  80% of Android paid apps have sold fewer than 100 copies.  Source: Distimo  —  The Utrecht-based analytics company Distimo generated …
RELATED:
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Android Users Like Apps, But Don't Like Paying For Them
Discussion: Pulse2, MobileBurn.com and GMSV
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs  —  Yesterday, PayPal filed a lawsuit against Google and two of its executives for stealing trade secrets.  The lawsuit came on the same day that Google announced its mobile wallet plans involving Android phones with NFC chips.
RELATED:
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Paypal-Google Lawsuit Reveals More About How Android Market Deal Went Awry
Discussion: Techdirt, gigaom.com and TechSpot
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple to announce back to school special at WWDC?  $200 off an iPad or free iPod touch?  —  One of our Apple sources has informed us that they've been hearing Apple's yearly back-to-school special will be announced at WWDC next month.  We have been told Apple will continue to offer educational discounts …
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Facebook: Ceglia Lawsuit Is A Fraud, Contract Is A ‘Cut-And-Paste Job’  —  Last month, Paul Ceglia's lawsuit saying he owns half of Facebook got the attention of the national and international press, mainly because the suit includes several alleged email exchanges between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Ceglia.
Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:
How Many Millions Did Amazon Lose on Two Days of 99 Cent Lady Gaga Sales?  —  Christmas came early for Lady Gaga fans this week, as Amazon sold downloads of the singer's brand-new LP, “Born This Way,” for just 99 cents on Monday and Thursday of this week.  —  Industry sources told Billboard.biz …
Discussion: AllThingsD
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Teen Who Sold White iPhone Kits Reveals How Apple Hunted Him Down  —  One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager buyers tired of waiting on Apple's release, was Fei Lam.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google, Facebook lose social network patent ruling  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc and Facebook Inc failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit by a New York company related to software designed to let people take part on social networks through their mobile phones.  —  Wireless Ink Corp …
Discussion: Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb and Electronista
Mark Gurman / 9to5 Google:
iOS 5 will continue to use Google mapping data  —  With Apple's purchase of two mapping companies over the last couple of years - Poly9 and Placebase - many have speculated that iOS 5 will finally be the iOS release where Apple moves from a Google Maps backend to an Apple backend.
Reuters:
Microsoft not too late for tablet party: Citigroup  —  (Reuters) - Microsoft is still not too late for the tablet party.  And with its Next operating system closer than most expect, the software maker could corner meaningful market share in 2013 and beyond, Citigroup said.
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Secret G8 memo reveals outbreak of internet harmony  —  A private memo from within the G8 meeting on Thursday between internet chiefs and world leaders indicates strong levels of support from Barack Obama, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and co for the principles of internet freedom put forward by Facebook, Google and their peers.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Starts Adding Flight Schedules And Airline Routes In Search  —  We know that Google has big ambitions for flight search, as the search giant dropped $700 million on travel search software developer ITA Software.  Today, the company just announced a few new flight search features …
Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:
Sony to Partially Restart PlayStation Network Operations in Asia Tomorrow  —  Sony Corp. (6758) will resume some of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity entertainment services in Asia tomorrow, more than a month after the biggest online data breach in U.S. history led to the suspension of operations.
RELATED:
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 11:20 PM ET, May 27, 2011.

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
 
 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: 
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Kayak Does Swimmingly Ahead of IPO, Acquires Austrian Travel Site for $9.5 Million
Discussion: Pulse2
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Firefox 6 Now in Alpha: Introduces New Developer and Privacy Tools
Discussion: Future Releases and MacNN, Thanks:fredericl
Michael Wolf / GigaOM:
Meet Facebook, the Web's Social Entertainment Operating System
Discussion: gigaom.com
John Leyden / The Register:
Google Chrome OS: Too secure to need security?
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Rumor: Apple testing new MacBook Air powered by same A5 processor as iPad 2
 Earlier Items: 
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Senior Defense Official Caught Hedging on U.S. Involvement in Stuxnet
Discussion: Naked Security and Inquirer
Richard Lai / Engadget:
ASUS to unveil a phone-docking tablet at Computex?
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Lodsys Also Targeting Android Developers with Patent Infringement Claims
Paul Boutin / Gadgetwise:
If Twitpic's New Deal Troubles You, Here Are Some Options
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
How Yelp Crushed Citysearch & Yahoo Local ... & Why Google Is Stealing Yelp's Playbook
Discussion: Screenwerk and SAI
Agence France Presse:
Google's Street View starts mapping India