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December 28, 2012, 12:31 AM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Mike Lynch Punches Back at Today's HP Filing: Whither $5B Writedown?  —  Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is still not backing down in his ongoing battle with Hewlett-Packard.  —  “Simply put, these allegations are false, and in the absence of further detail we cannot understand what HP believes …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey  —  The post-Ron Johnson era did not begin well for Apple.  Earlier this year, the company ousted Johnson's successor, John Browett, as head of its retail operations following a series of rare and embarrassing cockups.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Christmas Day 2012 saw a record 17.4m Android and iOS device activations, 2.5x more than in 2011  —  It's no surprise that more Android and iOS devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year.  Yet on Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxies, Kindle Fires …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Twitter-owned Posterous finally lets users export their data - will it now close down in 2013?  —  When Posterous was bought by Twitter in March, the team behind the blogging platform said it would introduce a system to allow users to export their data from the service “in the coming weeks”.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
One In Four Americans Owns A Tablet, Overtaking E-Readers, As Printed Book Consumption Continues To Decline: Pew  —  We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non-)numbers on how well their Kindle line of devices has sold over this holiday period …
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:
How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever  —  The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less.  Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing.  —  Via: yourprops.com
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Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Apple iWatch rumors surface again, this time with Intel attached  —  The Apple iWatch smartwatch is the subject of renewed rumor and speculation this morning, with Intel of all companies now being attached to the project.  Low power Bluetooth 4.0 is along for the ride as well, of course …

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