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December 14, 2012, 4:40 PM

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Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

The Woman Charged With Making Windows 8 Succeed — The Woman Charged With Making Windows 8 Succeed — In a Q&A, Julie Larson-Green explains why Microsoft felt it was necessary to rethink an operating system used by 1.2 billion people. — Why It Matters

More: ReadWrite, BGR, TechCrunch, DailyTech, GeekWire, Mashable!, Computerworld, PandoDaily, Business Insider, The Tech Report, WinBeta, CNET and Softpedia News

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's new Windows chief discusses Sinofsky, the iPad, and a transition to touch — In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Microsoft's new head of Windows, Julie Larson-Green, has shared some thoughts on Windows 8 after her early experiences leading a post-Sinofsky Windows team.

More: Neowin

Loek Essers / Computerworld:

Google Maps for iPhone violates European data protection law, German watchdog says — The issue is that the option to share location data is on by default, says the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein — When users install Google Maps on their iPhone …

More: Search Engine Land, iPhone Hacks and Computerworld

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

How Google's Maps App for iPhone Hurts Nokia — Apple isn't the only company that should feel nervous about Google's release of a new maps app for the iPhone. Nokia may have lost whatever chance it had to get iPhone owners hooked on its mapping service. — Just hours after the Google Maps app …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Atlantic Online and Tech Europe

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Why Google Just Made iPhone King

More: Daring Fireball, PC Pro and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @ryantate

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Apple Cuts Parts Orders, Analyst Says; Stock At 10-Month Low — The Street continues to shows signs of the jitters over Apple shares, twiddling with their numbers for both this quarter and next, and fretting about demand, component supplies and competition — As I noted earlier …

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, iPhone Hacks and iPhone in Canada Blog

Himank Sharma / Reuters:

Apple falls on lower shipment forecasts, muted China debut

More: BGR, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET and MarketBeat. Tweets: @reuterstech

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Apple kicks off iPhone 5 sales in China

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Google launches 18 new Google+ features focusing on mobile, photos, events and Hangouts — As Google begins to wind down its operations before Christmas, some of its teams have been working hard to get their new features out before the festive season truly begins.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, VatorNews, CNET, Marketing Land, PC World, VentureBeat, BetaNews, PC Magazine, Computerworld, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Marketing Pilgrim, MobileBurn.com, Mashable!, Engadget, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Gizmodo and Electronista

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google+ Didn't Stop With 18 New Features, Updates iOS App With Photo Album Swipes, Conversation Cards And More — Well, Google+ is playing coy at the end of the year, aren't they? Today, Google launched a year-end “blow-out” of features for users of its social layer. Eighteen new features.

More: SocialTimes, The Next Web, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com and Know Your Cell

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google to shut down Calendar features, Google Sync, Google Calendar Sync, Issue Tracker Data API, and Punchd — Google on Friday announced it is shutting down a slew of features and services as part of its winter cleaning. Google Calendar will be losing a few features, Google Sync will be axed …

More: Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Neowin and Lifehacker

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @reckless, @maryjofoley and @charlesarthur

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Dropbox 2.0 brings a crisp new mobile look and refined photo experience on iOS — Dropbox is updating its mobile app today with a fresh new look and a much refined photo browsing experience on iOS. I was at Dropbox HQ this morning and had a look at the new apps for iPhone and iPad …

More: The Dropbox Blog, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacStories and Lifehacker. Thanks:@thekenyeung

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

ITU Director General ‘Surprised’ By U.S. Dissent On New Telecoms Treaty, Says Internet And Content Issues Are Not In There — The director general of the International Telecommunication Union today spoke of his surprise and disappointment with the US, UK and other nations walking out of a vote …

More: ZDNet, Computerworld, Wired, Computerworld and Techdirt

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

UN Telecom Treaty Approved Against U.S. Web-Censorship Concerns

More: ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Computerworld, New York Times, Babbage, dailywireless.org, PC Pro, Inquirer and Techdirt

BBC:

US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN internet treaty

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Head of Google.org Shona Brown leaving to advise nonprofits and startups — Shona Brown, a longtime Google executive who currently runs the humanitarian-focused Google.org project, is moving on. Brown is the Senior Vice President in charge of Google.org, which helps fund nonprofit groups …

More: Mercury News and Fortune. Tweets: @sacca

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Former HP CEO Shifts Blame for Autonomy Deal to Chairman — Ever since Hewlett-Packard said it would write off $5 billion for Autonomy, the British software firm for which it paid north of $11 billion last year, a lot of blame has been cast on Léo Apotheker, the CEO who led HP at the time.

More: Bloomberg, Business Insider and TechEye

Elyse Betters / 9to5Mac:

Walmart now offers iPhone 5 for $127, 4S for $47, and fourth-gen iPad for $399; Target to discount Virgin's Prepaid 4S to $399 — Walmart is continuing to slash price tags on Apple products this holiday season, as the global retailer just announced it is now offering the 16GB iPhone 5 for $127.

More: The Verge, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Mobile Magazine and iClarified

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content — A little over a year ago, a big topic of discussion in the newspaper business — apart from the ongoing cataclysmic decline in print advertising revenue, of course — was how to leverage Facebook as a platform for content …

More: Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Guardian, currybetdotnet, Social News Daily, Dave Winer and BuzzFeed. See also Mediagazer

Chris Rayner / Bing:

Bing Social Results Arrive on iPad Today — Earlier this week, we started rolling out a new streamlined design for our social sidebar feature making it easier to find people who are relevant to your search based on what they've shared, blogged or tweeted about.

More: Search Engine Land, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Neowin

Reuters:

Exclusive: Softbank caps Sprint's Clearwire bid; investors want more — Sprint Nextel Corp's $2.1 billion offer to buy out Clearwire Corp appeared to be running into trouble on Thursday, as some shareholders said they wanted more money while Softbank Corp set a cap on how much Sprint could pay.

More: GigaOM, TMF Associates MSS blog, CNET, Reuters, GeekWire, ZDNet, TechCrunch and Forbes

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Max Levchin Says Marissa Mayer's “Very Ballsy Move” to CEO of Yahoo Was the Reason He Finally Took Board Seat — When I asked him to talk to me about why he decided to finally became a director at Yahoo after what was a very long mulling that started even before former Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO …

More: too long to tweet, GigaOM, CNET, VatorNews, DealBook and Betabeat

Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens — Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to debate a controversial proposal. Counterterrorism officials wanted to create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. citizens—even people suspected of no crime.

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, ACLU, SiliconANGLE, Mashable!, Wired and The Verge

Peter Burrows / Business Week:

Samsung and Apple Duel in Enterprise Tech — Last summer, health-care startup Preventice asked Samsung Electronics if it would create a custom version of its popular Galaxy S II phone. Preventice was putting the finishing touches on a product that used a smartphone to transmit data …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @pburrows

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