Techmeme: A Twitter for My Sister (Nick Bilton/Bits)

11:05 AM ET, December 9, 2011

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The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie) — Twitter today unveiled a new UI, debuting first in updated versions of its official iPhone, Android, and web clients. Coming soon: an updated version of their iPad app. (No mention of the Mac app — a sign of the times.) — This is more than an update.

Discussion: Business Insider, PC World, GottaBeMobile, Guardian, Know Your Cell and MobileBurn.com, more at Mediagazer »

Nick Bilton / Bits:

A Twitter for My Sister — In the early days of Twitter the company's founders repeatedly said that expanding the service was like building a rocket ship in mid-flight. Twitter grew so quickly that it was almost impossible to add new features because engineers spent their time trying to keep …

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

The new, new Twitter: 10 big takeaways — Twitter launched a major new version of its service today with many components: A significant redesign; a more common user experience between Twitter-the-website and its various apps; more features for brands; and new versions of TweetDeck for the web, Mac, and PC.

Discussion: Mashable!, Elezea, Dice Blog Network, @qthrul, TG Daily and AllThingsD

Twitter Blog:
Let's Fly — Today we introduce a new version of Twitter.

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Twitter's Ryan Sarver Explains New-New Twitter: We Want to Focus on Simplicity

Discussion: CNET News, WebProNews, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Motorola Mobility wins German patent suit against Apple, overcomes FRAND defense — At 9 AM today, the Mannheim Regional Court pronounced its ruling on one of the patent infringement lawsuits Motorola Mobility brought against Apple in Germany in April 2011. This is the first substantive ruling in this dispute.

Discussion: BBC, London Calling Blog, BGR, GigaOM, Digits, TechCrunch, MacRumors, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, mediacenter.motorola.com, 9to5Google, SlashGear, paidContent, GottaBeMobile, Macgasm, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Electronista, MobileBurn.com and Techie Buzz

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Samsung to beat Apple to market with Retina-resolution tablet in February — BGR has learned from a trusted source that Samsung is set to launch an 11.6-inch tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich next year, and it will most likely be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in February.

Discussion: Inquirer, PC World, WebProNews, SlashGear, Mashable!, CNET News, Fonehome, IntoMobile, MacRumors, Android Phone Fans, T3 News, Phones Review, Examiner, Know Your Mobile, Pocket-lint, ITProPortal, The Tech Report, VR-Zone and AndroidGuys

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple complains that Samsung's lawyers are stalling and ducking

Discussion: Bloomberg, Inquirer, Guardian, Computerworld, MacDailyNews, FOSS Patents and Ubergizmo

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
The Next iPad Will Launch In February — Citi

Discussion: VentureBeat, Washington Post, Techland, O'Grady's PowerPage, Computer Business Review, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Phones Review, App Advice, PC Magazine, Silicon Republic, PhoneArena, MacRumors, PadGadget and Redmond Pie

Amy Pyett / Reuters:
Australia court lifts Samsung Galaxy Tab sales ban

Discussion: Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald, GMSV, Gizmodo Australia, Techland, Android Life, MobileBurn.com, Inquirer, Between the Lines Blog, Phones Review, SlashGear, TechEye, VentureBeat, Android Phone Fans, The Verge and Electronista

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

Sarah Lacy And Mike Arrington Are Starting TechCrunch 2.0 — Former managing editor of TechCrunch Sarah Lacy is doing what many people expected her to do after she left TechCrunch last month — building a brand new version of it. — Lacy is working on starting a new tech news site, according to multiple sources.

Discussion: Robin Wauters and @hblodget, Thanks:mattlynley

Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:

webOS all-hands meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning - it all finally comes to a head — We've just received word that tomorrow will finally bring the answers for which we have been waiting. HP CEO Meg Whitman has weighed the options for what to do with webOS, and tomorrow at 10:30 AM Pacific Time we should finally get and answer.

Discussion: Inquirer, Inquirer, Between the Lines Blog, The Verge, WebProNews, Technologizer, SlashGear, AppleInsider, GottaBeMobile, Pulse2, CNET News, Electronista, Softpedia News, Business Insider and PhoneArena

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Video: Hundreds line up for Apple's Grand Central store — And hundreds more crowded the terminal's main lobby to see what the fuss was about — Line-goers (lower left) pushing through the onlookers. Photo: PED — What if Apple (AAPL) opened a new store and nobody came? We may never know.

Discussion: MacRumors, BGR, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and Softpedia News

Wall Street Journal: At Apple's Grand Central Store, iPhones Aren't the Only Draw

Darren Murph / Engadget:

AT&T's 4G LTE network is live in San Francisco — New York City by the end of 2011? How's about San Francisco by the end of December 8th? We can't say for certain that it's lit up for good ("testing," you know), but at least for now it's absolutely screaming on our LTE-equipped AT&T handsets in downtown SF.

Discussion: DSLreports, Android Life, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, CNET News, The Verge, IntoMobile and Softpedia News

Thomas Ricker / The Verge:

Panasonic's 4.3-inch ultra-thin Android smartphone headed to Europe in March — Panasonic said it will launch smartphones in Europe starting this March, five years after abandoning the international phone market. The move confirms earlier Nikkei reports that the Osaka-based company …

Discussion: panasonic.co.jp, Computerworld, Inquirer, Reuters, Fonehome, Engadget, CNET News, ITProPortal, Electronista, TechEye, PhoneArena, T3 News, TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Thomas Baekdal / Baekdal.com:

Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it — You have probably heard about the continual struggle between Apple and Samsung over similarities in their designs. Apple is suing Samsung and asking the courts to block the sale of the Galaxy Tab in many countries (and succeeding).

Discussion: New Web Order and VoIP & Gadgets Blog

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Google nabs Square Enix and other game developers to do native client Chrome games — Google announced today that its three-year effort to create a muscular browser technology that can run heavy duty apps such as console-like games is now ready for prime time.

Discussion: CNET News and TekGoblin, Thanks:deantak

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

Verizon ends satellite deal, FiOS expansion as it partners with cable — Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdam said the telecom giant plans to end its wireless partnership with satellite provider DirectTV and will stop its buildout of FiOS television and Internet services in the next couple years.

Discussion: DSLreports

AppleInsider:

Rare Apple '80s MultiServer, '70s Apple II ROM prototypes appear on eBay — A handful of rare, never-before-seen Apple prototypes have appeared for sale on eBay, including an unreleased product from the 1980s called “MultiServer,” and a prototype ROM board from the 1970s.

Discussion: Electronista

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Investor Group Buys Web Security Company Blue Coat For $1.3 Billion In Cash — Blue Coat, which specializes in Web security and WAN optimization solutions, has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by San Francisco-based PE firm Thoma Bravo in a transaction valued at roughly $1.3 billion.

Discussion: VatorNews, Market Wire, Between the Lines Blog, The Tech Trade, CNET News and Reuters

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Spotify Radio gets a big makeover, goes truly unlimited — Spotify has already had a busy year, what with international roll-outs, its Facebook tie-up and its recent ‘Spotify as a platform for apps’ announcement. — Now, Spotify has given one of its earliest features a complete makeover.

Discussion: Betabeat, PC Magazine, GigaOM, The Tech Trade, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Spotify, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET News, BGR, Business Insider, Evolver.fm, Softpedia News, Engadget, WebProNews and SiliconFilter

Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:

Google's Schmidt calls Carrier IQ software a keylogger — It actually records keystrokes, he says at a conference in the Netherlands — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today distanced his company from Carrier IQ's software, even as he described the technology as a keylogger.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Register, Inquirer, Reuters, Telegraph, 9to5Google, MobileBurn.com, Business Insider, ITProPortal, TechEye and SlashGear

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets — Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia, security experts said.

Discussion: LAPTOP Magazine and Boing Boing

DigiTimes:

OEM shipments of Nook Tablets to Barnes & Noble reach one million units, say sources — Barnes & Noble should have so far taken delivery of one million units of Nook Tablet PCs from OEM production partners, according to an estimate by sources at upstream suppliers.

Discussion: TechCrunch and The Digital Reader

Amar Toor / Engadget:

Motorola's Droid Xyboard tablets go up for sale at Verizon, prices start at $430 (update: in stores on December 12th) — Motorola's pair of Droid Xyboard tablets has finally gone up for order on Verizon's site this morning, fulfilling the promise that Big Red made earlier this week.

Discussion: Business Insider, CNET News and Electronista

Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:

Zite, the smart iPad newspaper is now available on your iPhone — When Zite's smart iPad newspaper launched in March, we were all down in Austin waiting in line for the iPad 2. — It was the perfect storm of Twitter adoption, news curation and iPad frenzy for the social, simple and intelligent app's debut.

Discussion: AllThingsD, App Advice and Redmond Pie

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Mark It Down: June 6, 2012 — “Six months from now you'll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking.” — That was Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaking at LeWeb a couple days ago.

Discussion: BGR, Julian Yap, AppleInsider and Digital Trends

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Google Currents: First Impressions Of Google's Flipboard Competitor — Google has just launched its much-rumored Flipboard competitor, Google Currents. The service is available for both iOS and Android — including support for phones and tablets — and you can download it right here.

Discussion: FierceMobileContent, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Lifehacker

Christian Zibreg / 9to5Google:
Google launches Currents, new social reading platform for iOS and Android

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, Fast Company, TeleRead, AllThingsD, Digits, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Googling Google Blog and Google Mobile Blog, more at Mediagazer »

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