Techmeme: Cain Camp Turns Google Searches to Its Benefit (Jennifer Preston/New York Times)

1:50 AM ET, November 13, 2011

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Lessons From the Failure of Flash: Greed Kills — Adobe's decision to stop development of mobile Flash has deservedly gotten a lot of attention online. It's a sad story for Adobe and Flash developers: a dominating standard on the PC web failed to get traction in mobile, and will now be abandoned gradually in favor of HTML 5.

Discussion: Tom Green, Etiole, FT Tech Hub and Adobe Blogs

Mike Chambers:

Clarifications on Flash Player for Mobile Browsers, the Flash Platform, and the Future of Flash — I have worked with Flash and been part of the Flash community for about 12 or 13 years (over 10 of those with Macromedia and Adobe). Over that time there have been a lot of ups and down …

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Kindle Fire could be hotter than iPad this holiday season, study finds — Amazon's upcoming Kindle Fire could be the hottest tablet on the market this holiday season, with demand that may even surpass Apple's blockbuster slate, the iPad 2. Results from a recent survey published …

Discussion: Retrevo, Examiner, The Tech Trade, eWeek and Slashdot

John Cook / GeekWire:
Kindle Fire Newsstand to feature GQ, Wired and dozens of other magazine titles

Discussion: Amazon.com, Digital Trends, Geek.com, TechFlash, paidContent and mocoNews, more at Mediagazer »

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

US court verdict ‘huge blow’ to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide — Decision made to open Twitter account of Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, who is taking the case to the Council of Europe — • Birgitta Jonsdottir: How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account

Discussion: Guardian, @birgittaj, ZDNet, Digital Trends, London Calling Blog, Slashdot, WL Central and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Paul Hontz / The Startup Foundry:

Nasty Bug in iOS 5.0.1 OTA Update screws up Address Book on the iPhone 4S — I updated my iPhone 4S earlier today (using the OTA method), and I discovered a nasty bug. My iPhone could no longer remember the names of any of my contacts! I opened up the contacts app on my phone and discovered …

Discussion: Geek News Central, iDownloadBlog.com, iThinkDifferent, Examiner, PC World, everythingiCafe, TweakTown, discussions.apple.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, iClarified, Computerworld, GigaOM, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, TUAW and The Next Web, Thanks:startupfoundry

Jared Newman / PC World:
Apple's iPhone 4S Battery Troubles Now Joined By New Problems

Discussion: eWeek, Neowin.net, Forbes, BetaNews, AllThingsD, Mashable!, Pulse2, Shiny Objects, L.A. Times Tech Blog, LAUNCH, PC Magazine, Gizmodo and @ia

Jennifer Preston / New York Times:

Cain Camp Turns Google Searches to Its Benefit — Searching Google for information about “Cain Sharon Bialek” and other keywords related to the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain? — Instead of the most recent news report popping up first on Wednesday …

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

The iPhone 5 Was Real, Says A Source Who Played With A Prototype — Remember how disappointed everyone was back in October when Apple announced an iPhone 4S and not an iPhone 5? — Everyone had been led to believe by scores of reports that there would be a revolutionary new iPhone with a bigger screen and a new slimmer look.

Discussion: Examiner, MacPost, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews and Apple Bitch

Jason Kennedy / ExtremeTech:

Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu? — In the Linux world, a war has been raging for a couple years. At stake are the hearts and minds of its user base, the combatants the various distributions of Linux itself. For some time, Ubuntu Linux has been the clear leader in the fight, amassing more users than any other.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple says stop using first-generation iPod nano due to battery overheating, opens worldwide replacement program — Apple has opened up a replacement program for the first-generation iPod nano due to overheating issues. These affected units were sold between September 2005 and December 2006 …

Rebecca Giblin / iTnews:

How litigation only spurred on P2P file sharing — Analysis: Did the content industry lose the legal battle? — Do you remember back in 2001 when Napster shut down its servers? US courts found Napster Inc was likely to be liable for the copyright infringements of its users.

Discussion: Slashdot

Bloomberg:

LG Is Said to Plan to Debut Google TV at Trade Show in January — Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. may unveil a television using the search giant's software at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to two people with knowledge of the project.

Discussion: Engadget, PC Magazine, PC World, AndroidOS.in, Digital Trends, Electronista, CNET News, 9to5Google, Motley Fool, Neowin.net, Mercury News and Slashdot

Mike Isaac / Gadget Lab:
Dissed by Logitech, Google TV Soldiers On

Discussion: The Verge, BetaNews, Android Community, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo and Googling Google Blog

Fred Wilson / A VC:

Long Roadmaps — I interviewed Dennis Crowley yesterday at the NYU Entrepreneurs Festival. I tweeted out the livestream so I'm sure some people were able to catch it live. I hope they put the video up soon because Dennis was great and I think people will get a lot of value out of his thoughts …

Discussion: The Next Web and Laughing Squid

Kevin Sexton / The Verge:

Kobo Touch with Offers costs $99.99, adds ads — The Kobo Touch e-reader will soon be available for $40 less thanks to a new version with Offers. Just like on Amazon's Kindle, ads will populate the lock screen and a sliver at the bottom of the homescreen.

Discussion: The eBook Reader Blog, The Digital Reader, Engadget, TeleRead, Liliputing, Gizmodo, Good E-Reader and Gadgetell

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