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| Mollie Vandor / Twitter Blog: |
Your Twitter archive — It's no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary …
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Engadget, Wired, Digits, BuzzFeed, ABCNEWS, VatorNews, PC Magazine, CNET, VentureBeat, Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, SocialTimes, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, GigaOM, parislemon, The Verge, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The Next Web, Laughing Squid and WebProNews. Tweets: @twitter
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Stops Its Long-Awaited Ad Network Before It Starts (For Now) — Looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer to see Facebook's much-anticipated ad network. — The social giant is putting the brakes on a test it launched earlier this year that let it place its own ads on other developer's mobile apps.| Derek Powazek: |
I'm Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet — “If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.” — I don't know who said it first, but the line has achieved a kind of supernatural resonance online. And for good reason - it describes a kind of modern internet company that provides a free service.
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GigaOM, Mobile Marketing Watch, Om Malik, BetaNews, CITEworld, Pogue's Posts, TPM IdeaLab, digitaltrends.com, Coolsmartphone, FierceMobileContent News and WebProNews. Tweets: @zeldman
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| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Expands Child Online Privacy Law to Cover Apps, Social Networks — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday updated its decade-old rules governing children's online privacy to reflect the growth of social networks and smartphone apps, but backed away from earlier proposals …
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CNET, digitaltrends.com, GigaOM, Washington Post, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, nbcnews.com and WebProNews
| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M To Consortium Of 12 Licensees, Including Apple, Google, Facebook — Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures …
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The Verge, Digits, Wired, Engadget, Ars Technica, Associated Press, TUAW, MacRumors, BGR, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes and everythingiCafe
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| Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog: |
Quickoffice + Google Apps = better document conversion and an iPad app — Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Google Drive — Since the Quickoffice team joined Google a few months ago, we've been working to make it easier for you to work with your legacy Microsoft Office files …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet and The Next Web
| Anil Dash: |
Rebuilding the Web We Lost — We have the obligation to never speak of our concerns without suggesting our solutions. I've been truly gratified to watch the response to The Web We Lost over the last few days; It's become one of the most popular things I've ever written and has inspired great responses.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus — Less than one week after Dropbox acquired Audiogalaxy to beef up its cloud music ambitions, today comes news of another acquisition, this time focused on another form of media, photos: the cloud-storage giant is buying Snapjoy … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Supersizes Its iOS Food App: Adds iPad Support; Punchfork Recipes And Foursquare Restaurant Search; And Upgraded Meal Archives — About a year ago, Evernote branched out from its core mission of being the place to record your life by launching apps tailored to specific purposes …
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digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, Evernote Blogcast, The Next Web, GigaOM, Lifehacker, Mashable!, MacStories and TUAW
| Andrew Nusca / ZDNet: |
IBM to acquire StoredIQ in big data play — Summary: IBM announced that it will acquire Austin, Texas-based information management firm StoredIQ in a push for more big data capability. — Andrew Nusca — IBM announced this morning that it will acquire StoredIQ, a privately-held information …
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PR Newswire, The Register, AllThingsD and Softpedia News
| Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog: |
Count down to Christmas Eve with Google Santa Tracker — While millions of people eagerly await Christmas Day, Santa and his elves are keeping busy at the North Pole. They're preparing presents, tuning up the sleigh, feeding the reindeer and, of course, checking the list (twice!) … | Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Verizon's Redbox Instant launches in private beta: Unlimited streaming, 4 DVD credits a month — Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture between Redbox and Verizon Communications, is now gradually rolling out to users in private beta after being teased earlier this month.
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9to5Google, Ars Technica, GeekWire, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Gear Live, Mashable!, MacNN, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo. Tweets: @redboxinstant
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
After 3 Million Downloads, CloudOn 3.0 Now Brings Microsoft Office To iPhone, iPad Mini & Nexus 7 — CloudOn, the popular free productivity service that brings Microsoft Office to mobile devices, just launched version 3.0 of its mobile app. With this launch, CloudOn is bringing its service to the iPhone, iPad Mini and Nexus 7.
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Gizmodo, BetaKit, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, Inside Mobile Apps, Engadget, PandoDaily, The Next Web and Redmond Pie
| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Owner of OpenTV slaps Netflix with patent lawsuit — (Reuters) - The owner of interactive television pioneer OpenTV sued Netflix Inc on Wednesday, alleging the company infringed on patents that cover technology underpinning the fast-growing Internet video sector.| Lev Grossman / TIME: |
TIME Person of the Year Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist — He inherited the most valuable company in the world from one of the greatest innovators in history. In 2012 he made Apple his own. Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist | TIME.com.| Jay Greene / CNET: |
Former Windows boss lands teaching gig at Harvard — Steven Sinofsky, who ran the Windows division for six years but left after sparring with some Microsoft executives, tweeted that he will return to Harvard Business School to teach this spring. — Steven Sinofsky, who recently left Microsoft …
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GeekWire, The Next Web, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Seattle Times, LiveSide.net, The Verge, Mashable!, WinBeta, SlashGear and Neowin. Tweets: @stevesi
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 920 WP8 update rolling out with camera, Bluetooth, and battery improvements — Nokia's latest Windows Phone 8 updates are starting to roll out to its Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 devices today. After HTC's 8X started receiving an OS update earlier this month, Nokia is now pushing the same to its own devices.
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Nokia Conversations, BGR, CNET, WMPoweruser and My Nokia Blog
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms malware exploit on Galaxy S III and others, ‘to address it as quickly as possible’ — Following news this weekend that an exploit on phones like the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II could allow malicious apps access to user data and other inner workings of the devices …
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Android Central, TechCrunch, CNET, BGR, Business Insider, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, GigaOM, Gizmodo, PandoDaily, MobileSyrup.com and ZDNet
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats — After expensive court action earlier this year, a group of music labels achieved their aim of having The Pirate Bay website blocked by ISPs in the UK. — With the official site inaccessible via direct means, many Pirate Bay users switched over to proxy services.
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The Verge and TechWeekEurope UK
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple removes popular AppShopper app from sale as it falls afoul of App Store's new app promotion clause — Today brings a high profile removal from the App Store, as the popular AppShopper app is now missing from the store. The removal, publisher Arnold Kim confirmed to us … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Notifies European Publishers of 5-Year Halt to ‘Most Favored Nation’ E-Book Clause — As noted by SetteB.IT, Apple has notified its European publishing partners for the iBookstore that it has suspended the “most favored nation” clause of its book-selling contract for a period of five years.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia reportedly planning Windows RT tablet unveil in February — Nokia has been teasing its own tablet for almost a year without any solid details, but it looks like that might be about to change at Mobile World Congress. DigiTimes reports that Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Compal Electronics …
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DigiTimes, Computerworld, PhoneArena, Engadget, CNET, Electronista, LAPTOP Magazine, digitaltrends.com, SlashGear, ZDNet, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, My Nokia Blog, Nokiapoweruser, Pocketnow, Business Insider, Windows 8 Beta, Neowin and Phones Review. Tweets: @tomwarren
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