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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Instagram backlash is Flickr's gain — Users look elsewhere after Instagram changes its policies — Popular photo sharing service Instagram is facing a user backlash after the company revealed new terms of service this week. The fine print, that takes effect on January 16th … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Mark Zuckerberg's Wedding Photographer Is Not Pleased With Mark Zuckerberg — Sure, you might not like the changes to Instagram's terms of service — especially the part where the Facebook-owned photo sharer says it may take your stuff and turn it into an ad, without asking permission or paying you.
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TechCrunch, WIL WHEATON dot NET, BGR, NYT Bits, PC World, Consumer Reports News and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung drops Apple injunctions in Europe — Samsung has today announced it will drop its inunction requests against Apple for standards-essential patent infringement in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands. In a statement given to The Verge, the manufacturer said:
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Bloomberg, FOSS Patents, New York Times, Examiner, InfoWorld, The Next Web, SiliconBeat, Marketing Land, Ars Technica, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Computerworld, GigaOM, FierceWireless, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Engadget, MacDailyNews, SamMobile, Electronista, OSNews and MobileBurn.com. Tweets: @fosspatents
| 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 …
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Nokia CEO: We have to move with more urgency (Q&A) — Stephen Elop speaks to CNET and weighs in on the cultural shift at Nokia, why he went with AT&T as an exclusive partner, and what keeps him up at night. — Nokia has undergone a significant cultural and identity shift under the leadership of CEO Stephen Elop.
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SlashGear, The Verge, Bloomberg, CNET, Business Insider, My Nokia Blog, Nokiapoweruser, PhoneArena and Ubergizmo
| Wayne Lam / iSuppli: |
Samsung Displaces Nokia as Top Cellphone Brand in 2012 and Takes Decisive Smartphone Lead Over Apple — For the first time in 14 years, wireless communications giant Nokia will not sit atop the global cellphone business on an annual basis at the end of 2012—with Samsung set to seize the mobile handset market's top rank.| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Facebook Prepares to Bring Video Ads to News Feed, Aims for TV Dollars — But Will TV Ads Disrupt Social Experience? — Facebook is set to unveil a new video-ad product in the first half of next year in its largest attempt to date to attract big swaths of ad dollars from TV advertisers …
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Business Insider, The Register, Inside Facebook, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Next Web, AllFacebook, The Verge, bizjournals and WebProNews. Thanks:@cottondelo
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple releases iOS 6.0.2 for iPhone 5, iPad mini to fix annoying WiFi connectivity bug — Apple has today released iOS 6.0.2 for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini only, fixing a bug that could affect the connections and speeds of their WiFi radios. The update is currently available in iTunes only …
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Engadget, MacRumors, MacStories, Business Insider, GigaOM, CNET, Macworld, The Verge, BGR and 9to5Mac
| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Google Music gains scan and match feature in the US — It wasn't very long ago that Google Music landed in Europe — to the delight of local music lovers, we're sure. On its trip across the pond, the service gained a unique new feature called scan and match, wherein Google scans …
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Google+, The Verge, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web, AllThingsD and 9to5Google
| 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.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung unveils new 5-inch dual-SIM Galaxy Grand, with dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 8MP camera — Adding yet another Galaxy S III (or maybe Note) clone to its collection of Android smartphones, Samsung today launched its new Galaxy Grand handset, offering a dual 1.2 GHz processor … | Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com: |
Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late — If you pledged cash for a crowdfunded product, be prepared to be very, very patient: A CNNMoney examination of the top 50 most-funded projects on Kickstarter found that 84% missed their target delivery dates.
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The Verge, Business Insider and Betabeat
| Craig Lloyd / SlashGear: |
Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer among TIME Person of the Year finalists — TIME Magazine has unveiled its shortlist of finalists for the magazine's 2012 Person of the Year award, which goes to the person or group that TIME editors deem had the single greatest impact during the past year.
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Mercury News, TODAY Celebrates, 9to5Mac, App Advice, VentureBeat and Macgasm
| Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
Federal Trade Commission to data brokers: Show us your data — The Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine data brokerage companies to tell the agency how they harvest and use data on consumers, toughening its stance toward the multibillion-dollar industry.
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Federal Trade Commission, GeekWire, Washington Post, The Verge, The Hill and TPM IdeaLab. Tweets: @kashhill
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google starts putting Meebo to use: New Google+ social sharing bar spotted on the Web (Updated) — Update at foot of post. — It looks like Google has begun putting its acquisition of Meebo to use after a chat bar looking very much like that of the advertising startup was spotted in the wild — screenshot below.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
European Antitrust Case Against Google Moves Towards Settlement As Well — Google seems to have stared down antitrust concerns both at home and abroad, with the help of its Chairman Eric Schmidt. — The company has been given a new deadline of January 2013, said Joaquin Almunia …
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CNET, Search Engine Land and Bloomberg
| Michael Peck / Defense News: |
Microsoft Wants to Kinect with Pentagon — Microsoft hopes its popular Kinect gaming accessory will score with veterans who need physical therapy. — The software behemoth has paired the Kinect with off-the-shelf software in a package that can be used by injured soldiers and veterans …
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| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn Workers Say, ‘Keep Our Overtime’ — SHENZHEN, China—Nets to catch would-be jumpers still sag ominously from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s buildings. — But two years after a spate of suicides at the Apple Inc. supplier's campus here, workers are more concerned … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Passes 200M Monthly Active Users, A 42% Increase Over 9 Months — Twitter has announced via its own official Twitter account that the service now has more than 200 million monthly active users, an increase of 60 million from the 140 million milestone it shared back in March.
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The Register, digitaltrends.com, Marketing Land, VatorNews, Mashable!, The Next Web, GeekWire, CNET, Business Insider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @twitter
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor details leaked: 4-plus-1 cores, 28nm, six times the power of Tegra 3 — NVIDIA's next superhero-themed mobile chipset has possibly made an early appearance in a leaked side in China, and it looks like it wants to go toe-to-toe with the latest processors from Samsung and Qualcomm.
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The Verge, SlashGear, CNET, ZDNet, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Tech Report, FierceCIO:TechWatch News, DailyTech, ExtremeTech, Pocketnow, Android Authority, Techie Buzz, Electronista, Gizchina, Mobile Magazine, AndroidOS.in, Inquirer, Android and Me, MobileSyrup.com and Softpedia News
| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Bitcasa brings ‘infinite’ cloud storage to Android & Win 8 with new apps, iOS & Mac coming soon — Cloud storage startup Bitcasa has released new mobile apps for Android and Windows 8 platforms, with iOS and Mac apps coming in January, the company announced Tuesday morning.
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Android Community, Softpedia News and Know Your Cell
| The Official Lookout Blog: |
Lookout Partners with FCC to Launch Smartphone Security Checker to Help Consumers Protect Mobile Devices This Holiday Season — Guest Bloggers: Jordan Usdan & Kevin Almasy, Public Private Initiatives, FCC — More than 20 million Americans will unwrap a new mobile device this holiday season …
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The Verge, Android Community, nbcnews.com, Electronista and MobileBurn.com
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apps People Use Together Have To Be Cross-Platform, So Bump Ports Its Flock Photos App To Android — Facebook and Apple grow closer today, as mobile app install ads in Facebook for iOS 6 now allow users to downloads apps from the App Store via pop-up instead of interrupting users and forcing them to leave Facebook.
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Facebook Developer Blog, AllFacebook, Smartphone Blog and WebProNews
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