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December 26, 2012, 2:15 PM

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Extends Free Gmail Voice Calls In The U.S. And Canada Through 2013 — This is becoming somewhat of a holiday tradition for Google: the company just announced that it is extending it free domestic calls from Gmail in the U.S. and Canada for yet another year.

More: Gmail Blog, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google and SlashGear. Tweets: @spencerchen

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

Google Moves Onto Microsoft's Turf in Business Software — SAN FRANCISCO — It has taken years, but Google seems to be cutting into Microsoft's stronghold — businesses. — Google's software for businesses, Google Apps, consists of applications for document writing, collaboration …

More: Mashable!, 9to5Google, Forbes, HotHardware.com News and 24/7 Wall St.

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Seven Questions for Google Enterprise Chief Amit Singh

More: SlashGear, Forbes, WinBeta, Neowin, TechEye, ResearchBuzz and Business Insider

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Google's music matching reportedly replacing explicit songs with clean versions — Some users of Google Music's new scan-and-match functionality, recently rolled out in the US, are complaining of problems when it comes to explicit content in their library. Explicit songs are reportedly …

More: Droid Life, LAPTOP Magazine, InvestorPlace, SlashGear and MobileBurn.com

Jack Moore / BuzzFeed:

Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Complains Of Facebook Privacy Breach — Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister and former marketing director of Facebook, posted a photo to her Facebook. She was less than thrilled when someone reposted it to Twitter. — According to Vox Media's Callie Schweitzer …

More: Mashable!, ReadWrite, AllThingsD, ABCNEWS, GigaOM, Forbes, CNBC, Hillicon Valley, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Betabeat, SocialTimes, Gawker, Marketing Pilgrim and SlashGear

Tweets: @randizuckerberg, @cschweitz, @dannysullivan, @pkafka, @randizuckerberg, @arrington and @randizuckerberg

Noel Brinkerhoff / AllGov:

Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email — The federal government will continue to access Americans' emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval.

More: VentureBeat, Gawker and Wired

Wall Street Journal:

Startups Adjust to Web's Down Cycle — Prominent venture capitalist John Doerr coined the phrase “SoLoMo” in 2010 to describe how three technology trends—social, local and mobile—were fueling a new Internet boom. — But now that Facebook Inc., Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc. have fizzled …

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Taking Stock of Internet Stocks in 2012: And the Winner Is ... AOL? — Back at the beginning of 2012, very few people would have picked AOL as the hottest Internet stock of the year. — And yet with only four trading days left, the New York-based portal is up 99.8 percent for the year …

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Twitter Is Already Winning The Social TV War, But It Will Soon Do More — The past few years have been a rollercoaster ride for the social TV market. Driven by the growth of smartphone and tablet usage while viewers watch television, dozens of companies have emerged in that time to aggregate audiences …

Wall Street Journal:

Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon — The Lines Between Software and Hardware Continue to Blur — Four big technology fiefs—Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. —have been creeping into each other's turf for years. In 2013, their war is set to escalate around two fronts: hardware and search.

More: PC Magazine and Marketing Pilgrim

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Samsung teases ‘whole new Smart Hub’ on Flickr feed, CES launch confirmed — Samsung's HDTV-based Smart Hub is set to land a major refresh at CES, according to a trio of images and a product description that appeared on Flickr this evening. Like previous iterations, the software interface …

More: Ubergizmo, Business Insider, GadgeTell and LetsGoDigital English Edition

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

After opening 51 retail stores in 2012, Microsoft announces locations for the first six in 2013 — Microsoft on Wednesday announced the first plans for its retail strategy in 2013. The company says it opened 51 stores this year, and it's already revealed where it will open the first six next year.

More: TechNet Blogs, GeekWire, CNET, BetaNews, VentureBeat, The Loop, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Neowin and Electronista

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

China Says It Now Has 1.104B Mobile Users, While Mobile Communications Revenue Totaled $116.26B Over First 11 Months of 2012 — Statistics released yesterday (link via Google Translate) by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) say that as of the end of November 2012 …

More: DigiTimes, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Tech in Asia and Web 2.0 Asia Blog

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime — Updated: Oh to be a fly on the wall for the conversations that must be going on between Netflix and Amazon engineers this holiday season. — If you're not a Netflix subscriber, you may not yet know that issues …

More: CNN, GeekWire, ZDNet, DailyFinance.com, Data Center Knowledge, Engadget, Wired, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Hacking NetFlix, Forbes, GigaOM and The Verge

Tweets: @netflix and @rafe

Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:

The Great Netflix Christmas Outage Is Thankfully Over

More: GigaOM, Reuters, Reuters, CNET and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @joshconstine

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