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November 26, 2012, 11:25 AM

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Google acquires wireless Internet network provider ICOA for $400 million — In a move that will expand its broadband presence beyond its Fiber project, Google announced today that it has acquired wireless Internet network provider ICOA Inc. for $400 million in a move that will …

More: PRWeb, TechCrunch, BGR, GigaOM, Business Insider, PC Magazine, Forbes, ZDNet, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, Tnooz, Softpedia News and WebProNews. Tweets: @rafat

Dave McClure / 500hats:

What Hasn't Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. — Recent articles by the WSJ, Fred Wilson, & others are noting a shift in investor interest to enterprise and away from consumer. If true, this is a huge error... at least for entrepreneurs, angels, and smaller funds.

More: broadstuff, Guardian, OurielOhayon, Zero or One., parislemon, Business Insider, Om Malik, Howard Lindzon and Venture Capital Dispatch

Tweets: @f, @om, @howardlindzon, @davemcclure, @stevecheney and @abrams

Cristina Cordova:

The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention — When I read Fred Wilson's post this morning about the tough times consumer companies are having raising money, his second point resonated with me most: … This made me think of how frequently we attribute success on mobile to downloads instead of monthly active users.

More: Business Insider and Brij Singh's Blog. Tweets: @chudson, @pkafka, @pkafka and @erickschonfeld

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Acquired “Lightning” Trademark from Harley-Davidson — The EU Patent & Trademark Office officially published two Apple trademark applications for “Lightning” under numbers 011399821/862. What's interesting about this filing is that it clearly illustrates that Apple had acquired …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, CNET, TUAW, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo and iClarified

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung's Galaxy Note II hits 5 million channel sales, adding 2 million over the last 24 days — Samsung has announced [translation] that the Galaxy Note II, its flagship phone-meets-tablet ('phablet'), has passed 5 million in channel sales, chalking up a further 2 million shipments since November 2.

More: IntoMobile, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, GigaOM, AllThingsD, BGR, Engadget, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, CNET, memeburn, Pocketnow, Mashable!, SlashGear, TechEye, UnleashThePhones, The inneractive Blog and Current Editorials

Associated Press:

Web access battles brew before UN conference — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An upcoming U.N. gathering about Internet oversight is raising alarms from a broad coalition of critics, including the U.S., tech giants such as Google and rights groups, concerned that changes could lead …

More: Forbes

Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News:

Bios embedded Windows 8 product keys — If you have purchased a laptop running Windows 8 recently you may have noticed that it may not contain a small label on the back side or battery compartment listing the operating system's product key. The question that should come up at this point …

More: SlashGear and Softpedia News

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Nintendo Confronts a Changed Video Game World — TUCKED in the woods here, west of State Route 520, is a little piece of the Mario Kingdom. — Behind the unassuming doors is the business built by Mario, the pudgy plumber, and Luigi, his lanky brother, as well as characters like Link …

More: The Register, Kotaku, MCV: Home Stream, Pocket-lint, VG247, GamesIndustry International and Polygon

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The Release Windows Archaism — Television and media industry are stuck in a wasteful rear-guard fight for the preservation of an analog era relic: the Release Windows system. Designed to avoid destructive competition among media, it ends up boosting piracy while frustrating honest viewers willing to pay.

More: Guardian

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

11 Apple iPads per hour vs. zero Microsoft Surface tablets — A survey compared sales at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in the Mall of America — FORTUNE — On Saturday we posted side-by-side videos showing Black Friday shopping activity at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in Lone Tree …

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, Inquirer, Macgasm, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com and Business Insider

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Legality of Warrantless Cellphone Searches Goes to Courts and Legislatures — Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects' cellphones, and the cornucopia of evidence they provide.

More: Wall Street Journal, Betabeat, Business Insider, Law Blog and Hillicon Valley

Tweets: @viewofadam, @adamfetcherofa, @jeffjarvis and @jeffjarvis

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

The Facebook Button Is Back On Phones: Nokia Puts Social Networking Knobs On ~$62 Series 40 Asha 205, 205 Dual-SIM Qwerty Handsets — Amid all the Windows Phone, luridly coloured Lumia hype, it's easy to forget Nokia sells a far more successful line of mobile phones, based on its Series 40 OS.

More: CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, The Register, Nokia, digitaltrends.com, Inquirer, Firstpost, IntoMobile, Reuters and SlashGear. Thanks:@riptari

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