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Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles To Cut Costs — Executing the cost-reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to 11 games, with some turning off today.
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SlashGear and GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @adamdempsey, @carnage4life and @brettwdiamond. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes — A pilot uses the FlySmart with Airbus app on an Apple iPad. The F.A.A. has no proof that electronic devices can harm a plane's avionics, but it still perpetuates such claims. — Over the last year, flying with phones and other devices has become increasingly dangerous.| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist — Facebook needed to buy Instagram because it was creating a mobile-first photo-centric social network. Snapchat is interesting to Facebook because it's creating a mobile-first ephemeral content social network.
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Hackulous shuts down: piracy app Installous is gone — In what seems like a small victory against app piracy, the Hackulous team announced today on its site that it is shutting down, bringing down its most popular apps in the process: Installous and AppSync.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Facebook confirms privacy flaw with New Year's message service, takes it offline to fix issue — Update: 10:20pm PST: A Facebook spokesperson confirms that it is aware of the issue and working on a fix. According to the statement: “We are working on a fix for this issue now …
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CS398 Group Project, The Verge, SlashGear, Gizmodo and Inside Facebook
| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Huawei partner offered embargoed HP gear to Iran — (Reuters) - A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator in late 2010, documents show.
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| Susan Crawford / Bloomberg: |
U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service — Terry Huval is a large, friendly man with a lilting Southern accent who plays Cajun fiddle tunes in his spare time. He is also the director of utilities in Lafayette, Louisiana. “Our job is making sure we listen to our citizens,” he says.
Tweets: @esotericbuddha, @klonkadonk, @aawayne and @pkfranz
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Foursquare updates privacy policy to show users' full names publicly and share more data with venues — Foursquare has sent an email to its users detailing changes to its privacy policy that are due to come into effect late next month. — The company says that the changes are aimed at making … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition — IT was the bold title of a conference this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of a widely read article in The Harvard Business Review last October: “Big Data: The Management Revolution.”
Tweets: @edwardtufte, @howardlindzon and @rafat
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Yahoo completes its planned exit from South Korea — True to its word, Yahoo has pulled out of the South Korean market by the end of 2012, as noted by the Yonhap News Agency. A notice on the company's site provides detailed instructions to users on when exactly all of its services will go dark … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google blocks TwitPic over alleged malware, causing Chrome to deny access to some Twitter pages [Update: Fixed] — Google's malware checker on Sunday has for some reason detected TwitPic.com as a threat. As a result, if you try to access the site from Google.com using any browser (link), you'll get a malware warning.
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CNET, The Verge, BrowserFame, BGR India, The Hacker News and Mashable!
Tweets: @twitpic, @twitpic, @declanm and @tomwarren
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Kim Dotcom To Host Mega's Launch Event At His New Mega Zealand Mansion Next Month — Kim Dotcom doesn't do things small. The man behind the Megaupload empire is about to launch his next service dubbed simply Mega. But don't expect a simple press event in a hotel conference room.
Tweets: @kimdotcom and @kimdotcom
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