Techmeme: IPv6 takes one step forward, IPv4 two steps back in 2012 (Iljitsch van Beijnum/Ars Technica)

January 5, 2013, 11:40 PM

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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Google says Maps redirect on Windows Phone was a product decision, and will be removed — Today, a Google spokesperson provided The Next Web with a statement indicating that the company intends to remove the redirect that it has in place for Windows Phone users who attempt to access the Google Maps product …

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays — It's time to stop denying that Windows 8 is off to a slow start — At some point, the cheerleaders—and yes, amazingly, they're out there—are going to have to face reality: Windows 8 is selling slowly. More slowly than Windows 7 at launch …

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

NPD: Windows 8 fails to reverse declining PC notebook sales during holiday season

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

The Fifth Horseman: Samsung — We all know the “four horsemen” of tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. These are the companies that pretty much everyone agrees will shape the foreseeable future of the tech sector. In some circles, that list makes waves for who is not included: Microsoft.

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Welcome to CES: A Trade Show, Not a Tastemaker — This week, most of the developed world will stagger halfheartedly back to the office, attempting to work after two weeks of twinkling lights, post-nog hangovers, and watching bad TV sprawled across couches inside the houses we grew up in.

More: The Verge, Business Insider and dailywireless.org

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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:

IPv6 takes one step forward, IPv4 two steps back in 2012 — IPv6 rollout is still inefficient with problems ahead, but there is slow progress. … “Hi, I'd like to sign up for Internet service at my new apartment.” — “That's great! We have the highest speeds at the best prices, you won't be disappointed.

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Cult app Cheddar up for sale, solo hacker explains why — Cheddar, a cult classic among hackers and Mac die-hards, is up for sale. — The elegant app is a simple task manager, but it really took off because of creator (and former Hipstamatic and Scribd engineer) Sam Soffes' code.

Tweets: @soffes

Mark Milian / Bloomberg Tech Blog:

Hollywood Hires Anti-Piracy Pro — Photograph by Jonathan Leibson/WireImage — MPAA CEO Chris Dodd announced the hiring of Diane Strahan to run the organization's operations. — The Motion Picture Association of America, Hollywood's trade group, is touting today's hiring …

More: Multichannel, Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap, Hillicon Valley and BWW Movies World. Tweets: @markmilian

Wall Street Journal:

Behind Google's Antitrust Escape — After early hopes for a sweeping antitrust case against Google Inc., it became clear to the Federal Trade Commission last fall that no such lawsuit was in the offing. — A clinching moment came in November when FTC staff, who had exhaustively investigated …

More: Digits and Mercury News. Tweets: @zseward and @amir_efrati

Caroline Winter / Business Week:

Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.? — Michael Hajduk had sunk one year and about $20,000 into developing his online poker site, Infiniti Poker, when the U.S. online gambling market imploded. On April 15, 2011, a day now known in the industry as Black Friday …

More: Ars Technica and The Verge

Tim-o-tato / Droid Life:

Google Play Adds “Free for Print Subscribers” Option for Play Magazines — For people who actually read magazines on their tablets, this news is huge. Recently, Google has enabled the ability for paper magazine subscribers to transfer their subscriptions to the cloud and read their content right …

More: Engadget, The Verge, Android Community, Android Police, Liliputing, Pocketnow and AndroidOS.in

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store) — I think we're well past the time when number of apps is the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, at least if you're Apple or Google. Perhaps not so much if you're Windows Phone or RIM.

More: sociable.co, Examiner, PC World and PhoneArena

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger — Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but analyst Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobile efforts.

More: VatorNews, Redmond Pie and Business Insider. Tweets: @joshconstine

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