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Charlie Kindel / cek.log:
Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn't it Taken Off? — People ask me all the time why, if I think Windows Phone is such an excellent product, sales appear so lackluster. My belief is Microsoft's approach with WP7 has a impedance mismatch with the carriers & device manufacturers …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Oh, Charlie, you should have been here for Christmas — Oh, Charlie. Charlie Kindel, that is. He used to work at Microsoft. He still has Microsoft in his blood as he tries to explain why Windows Phone 7 hasn't taken off. — I thought about posting this over on Google+ or Facebook or Twitter …
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
The Windows Phone Problem In Three Words: Way Too Late. — Earlier today, Charlie Kindel, a former Windows Phone GM, posted some thoughts on why Windows Phone hasn't taken off. Essentially, he blames Microsoft's model pressuring both OEMs and carriers — so much so that neither really wants to push the platform.
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Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Why Android updates are a mess: it's the business model
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block — You know who got a lump of coal in their PR stocking this year? Domain registrar GoDaddy. Its most recent stumble? The company's presence on a SOPA supporter list sparked an impromptu user exodus last week …
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David Rusenko, The Huffington Post, BetaNews, Examiner, Pulse2, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Boing Boing, Electronista and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:alexia
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Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:
Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer — Amazon's supercomputer doesn't exist. Except that it does. Photo: MarkHillary/Flickr — The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn't exist. — This fall, Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud …
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Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
Google's Travel Push Angers Web Rivals — Flight Searches, Which Place Google at Top, Anger Web Rivals — Google Inc.'s newest push into online travel has begun to roil the industry, the latest example of the company extending its market power into increasingly diverse aspects of economic life.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Kindle Fire hacked to run ‘pre-alpha’ version of Android 4.0 — And here we go. The enterprising hackers at xda-developers have put together an “pre-alpha” version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Kindle Fire, marking the first time we've seen Amazon's budget tablet running the latest and greatest version of Android.
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Liliputing, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, Android Community, TechCrunch, All New Musings, 9to5Google, AndroidOS.in, GottaBeMobile and Android Phone Fans
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Samsung, DoCoMo reportedly close to mobile chip joint venture [Updated] — Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo is planning to make a move into mobile chipsets, with the carrier said to be close to sealing a joint venture with Samsung, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
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Élyse Betters / 9to5Google:
USPTO rejects Oracle's patent claim on Google Android — The United States Patent and Trademark office delivered a final rejection to Google at the expense of Oracle. — According to Groklaw, the USPTO issued the rejection Dec. 20 in the reexamination of Oracle's U.S. Patent No. 6,192,476.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft in a better place than many people think, concludes Bernstein report — Popular sentiment about Microsoft assumes “an unrealistically bad scenario” for the company's future, concludes a recent Bernstein Research report. The firm say Microsoft is actually in a good position …
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Lax Security Exposes Voice Mail to Hacking, Study Says — BERLIN — It may be tempting to view the illegal interception of telephone voice mails, a practice that has roiled Britain and the News Corp. media empire of Rupert Murdoch, as an arcane tool employed by scofflaw journalists with friends in Scotland Yard.
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Rick Falkvinge / TorrentFreak:
Why “Safe Harbor” Laws Are Disastrous For Free Speech — These “safe harbor” provisions basically mean that the only way for an intermediary to avoid liability is to immediately surrender the end-user to the suppressing industries. But it was never in the business interests of net services to safeguard free speech.
Electronista:
Amazon UK mirrors Apple with 12 Days of Kindle sale — Amazon gives discounted books — Amazon UK took a page from Apple's 12 Days giveaway with a sale, not giveaway, of its own. The deal cuts back a number of books by several times their asking prices, often putting them under £3.
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