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January 14, 2013, 2:30 PM

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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cuts Order for iPhone Parts on Weak Demand — Apple Inc. has cut its component orders for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday. — Apple's orders for screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half …

Tero Kuittinen / BGR:

The strange math of Apple's alleged massive iPhone 5 order cuts — The Sunday evening Wall Street Journal article claiming that Apple (AAPL) had cut its iPhone 5 display orders drastically for the March quarter made quite a splash. The way WSJ wrote its piece seemed to support …

More: Pocketnow and Softpedia News. Tweets: @benedictevans and @benedictevans

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Apple shares slip toward $500 on iPhone 5 demand worries

More: AllThingsD, DailyFinance.com, ZDNet, Digits, 9to5Mac, Forbes, FierceWireless, MacDailyNews and everythingiCafe

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

Exclusive: CBS forced CNET staff to recast vote after Hopper won ‘Best in Show’ at CES — The Dish Network's Hopper wasn't simply in the running: it had actually taken the top prize — On Friday, news broke that CNET had been forced by its parent company CBS to remove the Dish Network's Hopper set-top box …

More: Betabeat, Daring Fireball, Bloomberg Tech Blog, TechCrunch, DSLreports, Ars Technica, Digits, Media Decoder and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

Jim Romenesko:

Greg Sandoval quits CNET over CBS editorial interference … Greg Sandoval, who covered media and digital entertainment for CNET News, writes in follow-up tweets: — “I am not disgruntled. CBS and CNET were great to me. I just want to be known as an honest reporter. ...

More: BuzzFeed. Tweets: @sandocnet, @parislemon and @sandocnet. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist — Just days before he hanged himself, Internet activist Aaron Swartz's hopes for a deal with federal prosecutors fell apart. — Two years ago, the advocate for free information online, who was known to have suffered from depression …

More: The Volokh Conspiracy, digitaltrends.com, Techdirt, Aaron Greenspan, TIME and memeburn. Tweets: @nikcub. See also Mediagazer

Brendan Sasso / The Hill:

Justice Department drops charges against Internet activist Swartz — The Justice Department dropped its charges against Internet activist Aaron Swartz on Monday, citing his death. — Swartz, who was facing computer hacking charges, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment on Friday. He was 26.

More: AllThingsD and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Steven Musil / CNET:

Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide — Hacktivist group defaces university pages after the school promises a full investigation into MIT's role in events leading up to the Internet activist taking his life. — Just hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pledged …

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Examiner, Ars Technica, MIT, Betabeat, The Verge, Geekosystem, Softpedia News, NYT Bits, SlashGear, WebProNews and Neowin. Tweets: @anonymousirc. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Dell Said to Be in Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms — Dell Inc. (DELL), the personal-computer maker that lost almost a third of its value last year, is in buyout talks with private-equity firms, two people with knowledge of the matter said. — Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is discussing …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, BGR, The Verge and DealBook

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Dell Considers Going Private, Again

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation Targeting Governments, Others — An advanced and well-orchestrated computer spy operation that targeted diplomats, governments and research institutions for at least five years has been uncovered by security researchers in Russia.

More: Securelist, Betabeat, Securelist, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Computerworld, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, NYT Bits, Washington Post, Datamation.com, Softpedia News and TechWeekEurope UK

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Netflix Signs Multi-Year Licensing Agreement With Turner Broadcasting And Warner Bros. Television — Netflix isn't all about movies, as you know. The company has been adding more television to its on-demand service and today announced multi-year licensing agreements with both Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros. Television Group.

More: Deadline.com, CNET, AllThingsD, Reuters, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner Says Q4 PC Shipments Down 5% To 90.3M Units, HP Edges Out Lenovo, And Windows 8 Fizzles As Multiscreen Theory Fails To Materialize — If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner …

More: Gartner, AppleInsider, CITEworld, Seattle Times, PC Magazine, ZDNet, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Computerworld, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, The Next Web, GeekWire, iPhone Hacks, Softpedia News, DailyFinance.com, Guardian, Reuters, CNET, DailyTech, iDownloadBlog.com, memeburn, The Loop and SlashGear. Tweets: @asymco

New York Times:

Google Gains From Creating Apps for the Opposition — For many people, smartphone shopping comes down to a choice of Apple's iPhone or one powered by Google's Android software. — But now consumers can get an iPhone and fill it with Google. — Google has become one of the most prolific …

More: iPhone. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

A Look at Samsung's Curved Smartphone Concept and 4.99-Inch 1080p AMOLED Display — I got a chance to look at some of Samsung Displays' new and upcoming products, probably one of the highlights of my CES 2013 experience. There's a bit to go through, but first up are their buzzworthy curved displays and a concept phone or two.

More: Digital Spy, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, Phones Review, digitaltrends.com, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and Pocketnow

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Samsung says Galaxy S III sales hit 40 million units as cumulative Galaxy S series sales top 100 million — After selling more than 30 million Galaxy S III handsets in just 150 days, the numbers were bound to add up fast. Samsung (005930) on Monday confirmed that cumulative Galaxy S smartphone sales have now topped 100 million units.

More: Samsung Mobile Press, Engadget, ZDNet, Examiner, BetaNews, Yonhap News Agency, CNET, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, iClarified, MobileBurn.com, Mashable!, The Verge and Neowin

Laura June / The Verge:

America's first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ — Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while …

More: Mashable!, CNET, PC World, ROUGH TYPE, Engadget, Business Insider, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, WebProNews and T3 News. See also Mediagazer

Pete Norman / Sky News:

TweetDeck: Twitter's UK Firm Risks Closure — TweetDeck is used by Twitter ‘power users’ to utilise multiple accounts — One of Twitter's UK companies is at risk of being struck off over repeated failure to file accounts with the business regulator, Sky News can reveal.

More: TechCrunch, AllTwitter, The Register and The Next Web

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Pulse Gets More Personal, Lets Users Add Their Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr & Tumblr Feeds — Pulse, the popular news-reading app for the web and mobile, just announced that it is going beyond the standard news sources it currently features and adding authenticated personal social feeds …

More: The Next Web, The Verge and VentureBeat

Ben Kersey / The Verge:

BlackBerry 10 sees 15,000 app submissions in less than two days — RIM will be facing an uphill battle when it does eventually launch BlackBerry 10, but the company is making sure it'll have a healthy selection of apps from the get-go by incentivizing developers.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, Electronista, FierceMobileContent News, SlashGear and NerdBerry.net

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

In battle for listeners, Audiobooks.com switches to Audible's pay-by-the-book model — When Audiobooks.com launched last January, the company had high hopes for a cloud-based streaming service that would let users listen to unlimited audiobooks for a monthly charge of $24.95.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, PadGadget and IntoMobile

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