Techmeme: Caught Between Two Conferences (Nick Bilton/Bits)

1:30 AM ET, October 19, 2011

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Galaxy Nexus with Ice Cream Sandwich: pictures, video, and hands-on — Samsung may have been the one to launch and produce it, but the Galaxy Nexus is all about Google and its latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. This 4.65-inch smartphone is loaded with a fundamentally new operating system …

Paul Miller / This is my next:

Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ official: release in November, SDK available today (updated with screenshots) — Alongside a new flagship handset (check out our hands-on with the Galaxy Nexus!), Google is announcing an all-new version of its Android OS. Codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich …

Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Galaxy Nexus versus the competition: by the numbers

Discussion: Engadget and Neowin.net

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
A Quick Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Feature Rundown

Discussion: GigaOM, Engadget and This is my next

Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google announces NFC-based Android Beam for sharing between phones (video)

Discussion: This is my next, msnbc.com, AndroidGuys, MediaNama and PhoneArena

Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich — for real this time (Gingerbread devices, too)

Discussion: Matt Cutts, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Android and Me and 9to5Google

Apple:

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California—October 18, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share.

Mark Gongloff / MarketBeat:

Apple Misses on Earnings, Revenue, iPhone Sales, Stock Tanks … The mixed-bag earnings season continues. — Apple reported third-quarter earnings of $7.05 a share, on revenue of $28.3 billion. — Analysts, on average, expected Apple to earn $7.22 a share on revenue of $29.5 billion.

Discussion: The Next Web, Examiner, Digits, Engadget, Hillicon Valley, Deal Journal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, WinRumors and Reuters

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

After A Rare Miss, Apple Predicts Record iPhone, iPad Sales And Hints At A $40 Billion Quarter — Yes, Apple missed with their earnings today. It's the first time in a long time that has happened. Some are suggesting that hasn't happened since 2002. That's big news.

Discussion: TUAW

Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Apple's just-okay quarter in charts

Thanks:fromedome

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple's CFO: iPhone rumors had a definite negative fiscal impact on Apple's business

Discussion: The Next Web and The Loop, Thanks:findingnewo

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Records Q4 2011 Earnings of $6.6B on $28.3B in Revenue, Tops $100 Billion in Sales for Fiscal 2011

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, 9to5Mac, MacStories, AppleInsider and Redmond Pie

Victoria Barret / Forbes:

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup — Here's that rare Steve Jobs story, one that's never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple's radar screen when he reverse-engineered …

Discussion: Tradigital, Dropbox, LiveSide.net, Business Insider, iPhone, PC Magazine, iSource, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin.net and Edible Apple

David Coursey / Forbes:

How Dropbox Will Die — Dropbox, the online file system, may be “tech's hottest startup” but that does not mean the company will survive. — There is always a “ hottest startup” in tech and in most cases the level of heat is almost inversely proportional to likelihood of lasting success.

Discussion: Digits

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
(TCTV Exclusive) DropBox CEO Drew Houston Says The $250 Million “Is All Going Into The Company”

Discussion: @mathewi

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Q3 Revenue Down 5 Percent To $1.07B; Net Income Down 26 Percent To $293M — Yahoo reported third quarter earnings today. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs ("revenue ex-TAC") was $1.072 billion for the third quarter of 2011, a 5 percent decrease from the third quarter of 2010.

Discussion: Pulse2, GigaOM, Guardian, VentureBeat, VatorNews, AdExchanger.com, Mixed Media, Social Markets, Between the Lines Blog and Social Markets

Jay Greene / CNET News:
Microsoft extends revenue guarantees to Yahoo

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Wall Street Journal and All about Microsoft Blog

Todd Haselton / BGR:

Verizon unveils DROID RAZR by Motorola, pre-orders begin October 27th for $299.99 — Verizon Wireless announced the DROID RAZR by Motorola on Tuesday, a brand new Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) smartphone that will take advantage of the carrier's 4G LTE network.

Discussion: This is my next, Ars Technica, Examiner, TechCrunch, eWeek, GottaBeMobile, Mobilized, CNET News, Electronista, GigaOM, Pulse2, Android and Me and 9to5Mac

Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Motorola Droid RAZR for Verizon announced, just 7.1mm thick

Discussion: Engadget, Engadget, Ars Technica, Technologizer, LAPTOP Magazine and eWeek

The Official Google Blog:

Designing an infinite digital bookcase — (Cross-posted on the Google Code blog) — As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it look like if it was designed to hold digital books?

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Google Operating System, Thanks:timcohn

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Ballmer On Not Buying Yahoo: “Sometimes You're Lucky” — Speaking today at Web 2.0, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was boisterous as usual. In a rousing talk with John Batelle, Ballmer talked about how, since last being on stage at Web 2.0 three years ago, Bing has doubled its market share …

Discussion: The Register, eWeek, Business Insider, The Tech Trade, paidContent, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Mashable!, Pocket-lint, WinRumors and The Next Web, Thanks:erickschonfeld

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Mary Meeker's 2011 Presentation On Internet Trends [Slides] — Kleiner Perkins partner and former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker is about to take the stage here at Web 2.0 Summit to present on Internet trends, as she does every year. — I'll be writing this up live, so keep refreshing.

Discussion: CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, @swiftstories, @digiphile, Digits and Mashable!, Thanks:alexia

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Caught Between Two Conferences — Two technology conferences, two blocks away from each other in San Francisco, were two worlds apart. — On Tuesday, the Web 2.0 Summit and Research In Motion's developer conference explored the future of the Internet and mobile technologies.

Discussion: SplatF and @digiphile

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Michael Dell On His Infamous 'I'd Shut Down Apple' Quote: “My Answer Was Largely Misconstrued.” — During a Q&A today at Web 2. Summit, I asked Dell CEO Michael Dell if he regretted saying that Apple should shut down the company and its CEO sell the stock back to shareholders 14 years ago …

Discussion: TUAW, The Tech Trade, Gizmodo UK and bijan sabet

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Facebook power users ‘have gone to Google+ and Twitter’ — Facebook's biggest threat is that its ‘power users’ have gone to Twitter or Google+, one of its founding investors and former president has said. — Sean Parker, managing partner of Founders Fund, speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco

Roger Cheng / CNET:

RIM Co-CEO unveils next-gen BBX platform — Research in Motion Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis pulled back the curtain on a new name for its next-generation operating system, BBX. BBX combines the best qualities of RIM's older BlackBerry operating system and its QNX platform, which powers the PlayBook tablet …

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