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December 10, 2012, 6:40 AM

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Confirmed: Effective Immediately, Say Goodbye to Instagram Photos Inside of Twitter — Instagram completely turned off support for Twitter Cards technology on Sunday, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllThingsD. — While users can still post links to their Instagram photos on Twitter …

More: Telegraph, GigaOM, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Gizmodo, AllTwitter, VentureBeat, Business Insider, iMore, The Next Web, Business Insider, SeekingAlpha.com, BuzzFeed, PC Magazine, The Verge, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Mashable!, PC World, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, Bloggers Blog, PhoneArena, PetaPixel and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @semil, @parislemon, @levie, @levie, @mikeisaac and @spencerchen

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook and Instagram to Crack Down on Insta-Spam

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Australian Police Warn Against Use of Apple Maps Due to Safety Concerns — Police in Victoria, Australia issued a warning to motorists this weekend regarding Apple Maps after several travelers became stranded in the Murray-Sunset National Park trying to reach the city of Mildura using Apple's directions.

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October — It was big news when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the world that Windows Phone devices were selling at four times their rate from 2011. That, along with several other positive factors …

More: WMPoweruser, Pocket-lint and Windows 8 Beta

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's battle for consumers: it's time to drop the Windows name

More: Mashable!

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Barnes & Noble signs deals with HBO, Sony and others to launch Nook Video service for tablets in the UK — In a move that echoes its major rival Amazon, Barnes & Noble has signed deals with major worldwide studios to launch its new Nook Video service for its recently launched Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets in the UK.

More: Inquirer, TechCrunch, Engadget, Business Wire, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Yahoo teams up with NBC Sports to share online and broadcast sports news and coverage — Yahoo has announced a partnership with NBC Sports that will see the two pool their sports reporting, broadcasts and news coverage in an effort to build the US' largest dedicated sports news platforms.

More: Yahoo! Inc., CNET, Engadget, Reuters, The Verge, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Broadcasting & Cable, Media Decoder and AllThingsD. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

The enduring Apple TV Fantasy — We all want TV Done Right, free of the Soviet Era set-top box, UI and opaque contracts. We imagine Apple will put all the pieces together. But what's desirable and “obvious” might not be so simple or soon... “When I go into my living room and turn on the TV …

Tweets: @jblin and @pkafka

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas That Plague Tech Innovation — Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it “on a computer” or “over the Internet” doesn't mean you deserve a patent, according to an amicus brief filed on Friday by Google, Facebook and six other tech companies.

More: AllThingsD, CNET and Web 2.0 Asia Blog. Thanks:@eldon

Brad Reed / BGR:

Cold water for Google Fiber fans: Covering the whole country could cost $140 billion — Bad news for those of us who would love to see Google (GOOG) expand its fiber network out to the entire country: Doing so may be prohibitively expensive. Business Insider points us to a new research note …

More: Electronista, Slashdot and Android Central

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's “Made in USA” computer likely to be Mac Pro — The Mac Pro is the only Apple product that fits the bill, and a new one is due in 2013 — FORTUNE — When Tim Cook announced Thursday that Apple (AAPL) would be investing $100 million to build one of its Mac line of computers exclusively …

More: MacRumors, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, mangochutney, Cult of Mac, iClarified, The Loop and MacDailyNews

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung reveals final details of Galaxy S3 ‘Premium Suite Upgrade’, includes easy mode, camera updates — Last week Samsung teased owners of the Galaxy S III smartphone with details of its ‘Premium Suite Upgrade’ — aka new Jelly Bean update — that it has begun introducing for the device …

More: digitaltrends.com, SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Pete Norman / Sky News:

Twitter Fined Over UK Business Accounts Delay — Twitter failed to lodge two sets of financial accounts at Companies House — Social media giant Twitter has been fined after failing to file its UK corporate accounts, Sky News has learned. — The company was due to lodge its annual accounts …

More: The Next Web and TechEye

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Silicon nanophotonics: IBM's light chips could save data centers from bandwidth traffic jams — IBM is announcing today it has created breakthrough silicon nanophotonics chips, or those that can use traditional silicon technology and laser light to transfer data at extremely high speeds.

More: ZDNet, Engadget, TG Daily, SlashGear, Computerworld and CNET

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