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Reed Morse / YouTube Blog:
Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch  —  Life moves fast.  To speed up recording, enhancing and sharing videos with your friends or the whole world, you can now use the YouTube Capture app on your iPhone or iPod touch.  —  Making sharing fast and easy
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Hands-on: YouTube Capture app one-ups Apple's video sharing options  —  As part of its apparent onslaught of pre-holiday app releases, Google released a brand new app for iOS users aimed at one-upping Apple's own video sharing capabilities on the iPhone.  Called YouTube Capture (or …
NYT Bits:
What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You  —  Instagram released an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service on Monday, and they include lengthy stipulations on how photographs uploaded by users may be used by Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition  —  If you want to stop social networking services from exploiting your likeness for advertising, you've got to start paying up.  —  Instagram is changing its terms of use in January.  Included in the new legalese is one section …
Wall Street Journal:
Apple in Preliminary Talks with Foursquare About Data-Sharing Deal  —  Apple Inc. is in early discussions to integrate local data from Foursquare Labs Inc. into its mapping application, according to people familiar with the talks, as the company continues to build an arsenal of local data to try to take on Google Inc.
Nielsen:
Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating  —  Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Judge denies Apple permanent injunction, throws out Samsung's jury misconduct claims  —  Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over the Apple v. Samsung litigation in the Northern District of California, just entered two important post-trial orders.  Within minutes of each other …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare  —  Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location.  Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook's Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps.
evleaks / Unwired View:
HTC M7, successor to the One X, detailed: 4.7-inch 1080p, Sense 5, much more  —  HTC is once again preparing the launch of a flagship Android handset, according to a previously reliable source, among whose cutting-edge components will reportedly be several industry firsts.
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
DARPA begins work on 100Gbps wireless tech with 120-mile range  —  DARPA has begun development of a wireless communications link that is capable of 100 gigabits per second over a range of 200 kilometers (124mi).  Officially dubbed “100 Gb/s RF Backbone” (or 100G for short) …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Google Maps for iOS downloaded 10M times in under 48 hours  —  Google's Jeff Huber has just announced via Google+ that Google Maps for iOS was downloaded 10 million times in under 48 hours from its release last week.  —  “We're excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” writes Huber.
Sencha Blog:
The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story  —  When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn't need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools.  With those three weapons in hand …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram  —  When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks ago, many did not take that turn of events too well.  Consumers like things easy, and clicking out of one app or site to go elsewhere is not always the best experience.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Sequoia Raises $700M For Global Growth Fund  —  Sequoia Capital filed a form with the SEC today, indicating a $700 million raise for a fund titled Sequoia Capital Global Growth Fund, L.P. While Sequoia declined to comment on the filing, our sources tell us that this fund is actually separate …
More: NextBigWhat and GigaOM.  Thanks:@ryanlawler
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Have Apple's iPhone and iPad saturated the U.S. market?  —  A new Morgan Stanley survey suggests there is still room to grow  —  FORTUNE — “Despite concerns to the contrary,” writes Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty reporting the results of a proprietary survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers, “iPhone and iPad demand remain strong.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Iranian computers targeted by new malicious data wiper program  —  Iranian computers are being targeted by malware that wipes entire disk partitions clean, according to an advisory issued by that country's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
LogMeIn's Dropbox Competitor Cubby Reveals Pricing; Stays Competitive At $7 Per Month For 100 GB  —  Cubby, the new cloud storage player from LogMeIn which aggressively, if belatedly, entered the market this year to compete alongside Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, SkyDrive and others, is today revealing its pricing and Pro plans.
Loek Essers / ITworld.com:
German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its real name policy  —  Facebook said it would vigorously fight the order  —  A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to use nicknames online.
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
U.N. summit's meltdown ignites new Internet Cold War  —  New geopolitical rift isn't east-west or north-south: it roughly tracks commitment to free expression.  The U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and their allies are now facing off against the likes of China, Russia, Libya, Nigeria, and dozens of other nations.

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