U.S. To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes  —  Proposal Would Allow for Calls Above 10,000 Feet  —  The Federal Communications Commission will propose allowing passengers to use their cellphones on airplanes, people familiar with the matter said.  —  While phone use would still …

Xbox One Teardown  —  After eight years, Microsoft has finally released a proper successor to the Xbox 360—the Xbox One.  Will this be the One Xbox?  Follow us as we journey into the tower of Microsoft's new console—coming to you straight from Mordor New Zealand!  Step 1 — Xbox One Teardown This is the One.

Samsung owes Apple $290M more in damages, jury says  —  (Credit: CBS) SAN JOSE, Calif. — A jury on Thursday ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $290,456,793 in additional damages for patent infringement, slightly less than the $380 million Apple had requested.  —  That brings its total award to about $930 million.

Video Trailers Debut On The App Store With ‘Clumsy Ninja’  —  Apple is featuring Clumsy Ninja, an iOS game that was first announced at the iPhone 5 keynote in 2012, with a custom page on the App Store that, alongside a description, features a 1-minute trailer for the game.

HBO GO now works with Chromecast  —  Grab your favorite snack and get cozy on your Iron Throne, because HBO GO has added Chromecast support to their Android, iOS and web app.  Now you can easily enjoy “Game of Thrones,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Girls” and your favorite movies on your TV by casting from the HBO GO app or website.

NYT #IsKindaClueless — its uncritical Lulu piece sidesteps the controversy surrounding the app  —  NYT #IsKindaClueless  —  Today Lulu makes its New York Times debut, page E1.  —  Lulu lets women review guys.  Specifically their date-worthiness, rated out of 10 …

Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion  —  Swedish music-streaming company Spotify AB has secured nearly $250 million in new financing led by Silicon Valley firm Technology Crossover Ventures, valuing the company somewhere “north” of $4 billion dollars, according to multiple people familiar with the deal.

Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL  —  Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all.  AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through its 1999, $80 million acquisition of Nullsoft in 1999.

Intel Chairman: “We Seemed to Have Lost Our Way”  —  Long a beneficiary of the falling cost of computing power, chipmaker Intel acknowledged Thursday that it was beaten at its own game.  —  Moore's law, the industry term coined by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, suggests that computing …

iPad Mini Retina is a no-show at carriers  —  Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina.  —  (Credit: Apple)  —  Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina with 3G/4G capability, as back orders grow.  —  Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are all back-ordered on the cellular version …

ESPN ScoreCenter App Is a Hit, but It's Getting an Overhaul Anyway: New Name, More Video, More Stuff  —  ESPN's ScoreCenter app isn't broken — it's one of the most successful mobile offerings from a media company that has done a very good job with mobile.  But ESPN is trying to fix it, anyway.

LG promises to stop your Smart TV spying on you  —  In light of accusations that its Smart TVs were sending private data to its servers, LG has admitted that some of its sets are behaving in ways they shouldn't be.  In a statement, the Korean manufacturer conceded that it has been collecting channel …

Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship  —  Protecting Internet traffic with hard-to-crack code may prevent governments from censoring their populations' communications within a decade, Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said.  —  Schmidt described the coming of a …

Nokia's Finland HQ To Become A Microsoft Site Next Year, After Devices & Services Sale  —  The wheel of fortune symbolism is clear: as Apple prepares to break ground on a new UFO-esque HQ, the former kingpin of mobile, Nokia, is quietly preparing to move out of its own headquarters - to make way for Microsoft.

Donna personal assistant app updated for iOS 7, lets meeting attendees know if you're running late  —  If you've ever run late for a meeting but weren't able to tell the other attendees because you're too busy battling traffic, then you might be interested in the latest update to Donna …

Haiku Deck tops 800,000 downloads, rolls out Web-based service to take on PowerPoint's stronghold  —  Haiku Deck co-founders Kevin Leneway and Adam Tratt at their new offices in Fremont.  —  Haiku Deck is one of Seattle's hottest startup companies.  But up until today, I (and millions of other consumers) couldn't use it.

Google refreshes Shopping site with extended previews, 360-degree photos, ‘visually similar’ search  —  It's set to be a holly jolly holiday season, especially if you're keen to do your gift shopping online.  Google's browser-based Shopping tool just scored a pretty comprehensive refresh …

A university in Cyprus is the first in the world to accept tuition fees with Bitcoin  —  This university is the first in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition  —  The Bitcoin craze has made its way to the educational system.  —  The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced today …

Wordpress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor  —  We've talked in the past about the unfortunate situation in which there is almost no real punishment for bogus DMCA notices.  Section 512(f) of the DMCA is supposed to provide a way to get attorneys' fees …

NBCU May Invest in AllThingsD Journalists  —  Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher Will Be Starting New Company Next Year … NBCUniversal is close to a deal to take a minority stake in a new company being started by technology journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, say people familiar with the situation.

Quip unveils new features in latest update, including file importing from Word, Evernote, and Dropbox  —  Quip is releasing a product update today to its word processing application.  Users can now import documents, apply new filters to their app inbox, implement a focus mode, and tweak notifications.

Chrome 32 beta arrives with animated WebP, NPAPI plugins blocked by default, and faster touch input for Android  —  A week after releasing the stable version of Chrome 31, Google has announced more features coming to Chrome 32 beta for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

SkyDrive gets camera backups on iOS, Facebook previews on the web  —  Windows Phone owners have long had the option of backing up their photos to SkyDrive, but Microsoft hasn't extended that courtesy to other platforms so far.  The company must be feeling a little more generous today …

4chan Creator's Drawing App Comes to the iPhone  —  Chris Poole is looking for another image-based hit.  —  The territory isn't foreign to Poole, who founded 4chan — the popular, anonymous online message board community notorious for its crazy photo sharing and meme generation.

HTC One max arrives on Verizon for $299 on contract  —  Following the launch of the HTC One max on Sprint earlier this month, Verizon this morning officially made availability and pricing details available.  As expected from an earlier leak, Verizon is pricing the HTC One max at $299.99 …

Microsoft's Azure Cloud Computing System Hits Bumps, Taking Down Xbox Live And Other Services  —  Reports surfaced recently that Xbox Live had gone dark.  Other Microsoft services have followed.  The problems appear to stem from Microsoft's cloud computing service Azure, which is the brains for many Microsoft services.