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January 7, 2013, 10:35 PM

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Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:

Intel's New Chips: Everything You Need to Know — Intel's talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it's new, some of it we've heard before. But we'll let you know everything important that goes down today. — Here's the quick version of everything Intel will be talking about today …

More: Intel, The Register, The Next Web, The Verge, The Verge, Inquirer, AllThingsD, Engadget, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and Neowin

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Intel: 4th generation Ultrabooks will require touch and will retail for $599 by end of 2013 — Today at its CES event, Intel made the claim that by the end of 2013, the market will enjoy the presence of $599, touch-enabled Ultrabook laptops. The company also stated that the devices will be required to support touch input.

More: Ars Technica, Inquirer, VentureBeat, MacRumors and Engadget

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Intel confirms partnership with Comcast, brings Xfinity TV viewing to Intel-based devices — Well, there's no new set-top box box per se, but most of those rumored Intel / virtual cable TV details have come true here at CES. Intel just announced a new partnership with Comcast …

More: News Stories and The Verge

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Intel will offer tiny Kinect-like interface for PCs, partner with OEMs for ‘computer senses’

More: VentureBeat and NYT Bits

Ben Kersey / The Verge:

Intel unveils new ‘Lexington’ Z2420 mobile Atom for smartphones in developing nations

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Apple:

App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012 — Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps*, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month.

Matthew Lynley / Digits:

Apple Has Paid Out More Than $7 Billion To Developers

More: SiliconBeat, Examiner and DailyFinance.com

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:

Why We're Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World — Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES. For a long time, the Consumer Electronics Show, which began in 1967, was the Super Bowl of new technology.

More: TechCrunch, NYT Bits, Slate and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky

Mat Honan / Wired:

CES Is the World's Greatest Hardware Show Stuck in a Software Era — LAS VEGAS — Thousands of companies will roll out millions of products at CES this week. Lights will blink. Glass will shimmer. Screens will illuminate and speakers will reverberate.

More: Guardian, Quartz, The Verge and InvestorPlace

Tweets: @zpower, @intlces, @joshsternberg and @gartenberg

Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!:

Congressman Demands Investigation of Google FTC Probe Leaks — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, demanded an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission's role in sharing private information about the Commission's Google probe …

More: CNET and Hillicon Valley

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Contends FTC-Google Deal Kills Pending Motorola Patent Cases

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Ryan Tate / Wired:

In Apple's War on Taxes, Surrender Costs $28 Billion — With the U.S. Senate reportedly finishing an investigation into how Apple and others dodge taxes, and with Apple fighting for an officially sanctioned tax holiday, it's worth taking stock of Apple's tax liabilities.

More: Computerworld

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Samsung tries to do it all with new Smart TV interface, lets older sets upgrade with Smart Evolution Kit — Smart TVs universally have horrible interfaces, and it seems like Samsung knows that its prior efforts haven't been up to par. The company has shown off its new user interface …

More: The Verge, The Next Web, The Next Web, GigaOM, Business Insider, Mashable! and Electronista

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

Netgear's NeoTV PRIME with Google TV gets official at CES — We didn't doubt the reality of Netgear's NeoTV PRIME (GTV100) Google TV box after the candid shots of it we saw last month, but as expected, the company has chosen to make it official at CES. In addition to providing access …

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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

ASUS' Qube with Google TV - Update: Hands On

More: The Verge, Gizmodo and Engadget

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Vizio gets back in the phone game with 5-inch 1080p and 4.7-inch 720p handsets... for China — Two of the hottest phones at CES, but you can't have one — Two years ago, Vizio came to CES and announced the Vizio Phone, a skinned Android phone that quietly died at the hands of American carrier politics.

More: Gizmodo, IntoMobile, digitaltrends.com, AndroidGuys, Pocketnow, GadgeTell, Droid Life, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google and PhoneArena

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Dish Hopper Transfers for iPad takes your DVR content offline (hands-on) — There's really no way to encapsulate all of this awesomeness in a headline, so you're gonna want to read on. Sure, there's Dish Anywhere, for realtime streaming of live TV and DVR content, but Hopper with Sling owners …

More: Engadget, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, Engadget and Bloomberg

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

New version of Dish's Hopper DVR likely to rile broadcasters

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Sony Xperia Z / ZL: hands-on with Sony's flagship smartphone for 2013 — Sony has made it a habit to introduce new smartphones at CES each year, and this year's announcement of the new Xperia Z continues that trend. The Xperia Z — and the very similar Xperia ZL — is Sony's flagship mobile device …

More: VentureBeat, Press Articles, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Computerworld, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Electronista and Gotta Be Mobile

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

Nokia Boss: “Today we are with Microsoft, but anything is possible” — Gizmodo es Español reports on some surprising words by Nokia big chief Stephen Elop. Asked about a potential Android phone in Nokia's near future, Elop said that “anything is possible”:

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft determines Windows RT jailbreak poses no security threat, applauds hacker for ingenuity — On Sunday, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications, and Microsoft quickly confirmed it was investigating the claims.

More: On the Surface of Security, BGR, The Register, WinBeta, Naked Security, CNET and Neowin. Thanks:@alex

B.L. Ochman / AdAge:

There Are 181,000 Social Media ‘Gurus,’ ‘Ninjas,’ ‘Masters,’ and ‘Mavens’ on Twitter — A Growth Industry: That's Up From Just 16,000 In 2009 — As a public service, I like to periodically check in on the number of self-proclaimed social media “gurus,” “ninjas,” “masters” and “mavens” on Twitter.

More: The Verge, PandoDaily and The Atlantic Online

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Walmart now lets you convert DVDs to UltraViolet digital copies without leaving home — Walmart first launched its disc-to-digital initiative last year, allowing customers to bring a DVD collection to any of the retailer's stores and pay to receive UltraViolet digital copies of their movies.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Engadget and Gizmodo

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @carlesdijous

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Cisco introduces ‘videoscape unity’ to manage the future of video everywhere — Cisco is the world's networking giant, and today it showed what it is doing to make sure that it can provide the plumbing for the explosion of video on live TV, paid services, and the wide-open Internet.

More: ReadWrite, NYT Bits, PC World, Light Reading, DailyTech and BostInno

Steve Stecklow / Reuters:

Exclusive: U.S. nuclear lab removes Chinese tech over security fears — (Reuters) - A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components because of national security concerns, a document shows.

More: The Register, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget and Gizmodo

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

New Swype keyboard for Android crowd-sources your autocorrections — The market for Android keyboards is remarkably heated and fast moving, with companies cribbing different features from each other seemingly every month. The latest such move comes from Swype, which is adding a feature called …

More: GigaOM, GeekWire, PhoneArena, TechSpot, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Engadget

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Yahoo Mail users hit by widespread hacking, XSS exploit seemingly to blame (Update: Fixed) — Late last night reports started coming in suggesting that Yahoo Mail users have had their accounts hacked. While “hacked” is a very broad term nowadays, it does appear that Yahoo email accounts …

More: AllThingsD, digitaltrends.com, Lifehacker and Electronista

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Republican staffer fired for copyright memo talks to Ars — Derek Khanna with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the outgoing chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Jordan's successor, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), chose not to retain Khanna for the 113th Congress.

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Huawei Officially Reveals The 6.1-Inch Ascend Mate And The 5-Inch Ascend D2, We Go Hands-On — Neither LG's nor AT&T's pre-CES conferences had much to show off in the way of smartphone hardware, but Huawei has just changed all that here at its press event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

More: GigaOM, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Reuters, ZDNet, Engadget, IntoMobile, Inquirer, 9to5Google, Android and Me, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable! and Softpedia News. Thanks:@drizzled

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster — McAfee, now traveling around the Midwest, has a taste for Cracker Barrel. — The craziest story of this last week? It's an easy call—John McAfee's self-told tale of becoming a spymaster in Belize, passing out malware-laden laptops to officials …

More: Help Net Security, PC Magazine, Mashable!, SecurityWeek, Naked Security and Business Insider

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

BitPay Banks $510K In Investment To Become PayPal for Bitcoin, Already Has 2,100 Businesses On Board — Bitcoin, a heavily underground peer-to-peer payment solution, is starting to peek its head above ground. Today, a payment solutions company called BitPay has announced $510K in investment …

More: bizjournals, Business Wire and Forbes. Thanks:@joshconstine

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Ford Launches Open Developer Program To Let Mobile Apps Interface With Its Cars — Our cars have become increasingly connected, but building apps for them has generally involved small private betas and a lot of hand-holding from car manufacturers. The first manufacturer to open up their cars …

More: The Verge, GigaOM, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, digitaltrends.com, Computerworld, PC World, Gizmodo, The Next Web, IntoMobile and USA Today. Thanks:@fredericl

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