Linked List: August 9, 2013

Friday, 9 August 2013

RealNetworks Posts $18.5M Loss, Glaser Still ‘Very Confident’ in Turnaround ★

Just adorable that these guys are still around.

Apple’s Tim Cook, Tech Executives Meet With Barack Obama to Talk Surveillance ★

Oh, to have been a fly on that wall.

Asus Reports Disappointing VivoTab RT Sales, Stops Making RT Tablets ★

Shocker.

Every Second on the Internet ★

Busy.

New Nexus 7 Plagued by GPS Glitch ★

Lance Whitney, reporting for CNet:

The GPS signal works for a certain amount of time, anywhere from 2 to 30 minutes, and then it simply conks out, leaving the user without a connection. The Nexus then tries to hunt for a signal without any success. Rebooting the tablet seems to restore GPS, but then the pattern repeats itself with the signal again dying out after several minutes.

Reuters: BlackBerry Open to Going Private ★

Reuters:

BlackBerry Ltd is warming up to the possibility of going private, as the smartphone maker battles to revive its fortunes, several sources familiar with the situation said.

Chief Executive Thorsten Heins and the company’s board is increasingly coming around to the idea that taking BlackBerry private would give them breathing room to fix its problems out of the public eye, the sources said.

“There is a change of tone on the board,” one of the sources said on Thursday.

Mr. Heins, Carl Icahn on line 3.

Regular People Have No Idea How to Manage Photos on Their iPhone ★

Bradley Chambers:

Also, photo stream needs to be reversed. Apple should store all photos/video taken with your iPhone and just store the most recent 1000 (or 30 days) locally on the device.

Yes.

Iwata: Nintendo Games on Rival Platforms Would Only Be a Short-Term Fix ★

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata:

“What I believe is that Nintendo is a very unique company, because it does its business by designing and introducing people to hardware and software — by integrating them, we can be unique. And because we have hardware and software developers in the same building, they stimulate each other.”

Sounds like another company.