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December 10, 2012, 12:15 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 …
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
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 BlogThanks:@eldon
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.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Half A Million People Voted Against Facebook's Governance Changes, But Not Enough As Polls Close Tomorrow  —  619,000 people have cast their ballot in Facebook's vote on site governance and policy, and 87% want to block the changes.  But unless 299.4 million more people vote by tomorrow morning …
More: Nyack and rt.com
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Square integrates Apple's Passbook and introduces gift cards for iOS app users  —  With the Christmas season bearing down on us, red hot mobile payment service Square has made a major move after it introduced gift cards to its iOS app and integrated Passbook to allow gifted money to be spent.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Air Force Stumbles Over Software Modernization Project  —  IN policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed “wicked.”  —  For the United States Air Force, installing a new software system has certainly proved to be a wicked problem.
More: Bloomberg
Amin Lakhani / The Windows Blog:
What's new in Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone  —  Hello again Windows Phone fans!  It's been a while since I shared some of the thinking behind the redesign of Internet Explorer in our previous release.  Today, I'll take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of our brand new browser for Windows Phone 8.
Alex Howard / digiphile:
The White House joins Pinterest, invites users to holiday social  —  The White House joined Pinterest today.  Over the past several years, the White House digital team has sought to leverage the growing unprecedented scale of its connections on these networks to influence national debates on proposed laws …

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