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December 14, 2012, 2:25 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: TechCrunch, GeekWire, Computerworld, PandoDaily, CNET, Business Insider, The Tech Report, WinBeta 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

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

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Apple kicks off iPhone 5 sales in China

More: China Real Time Report, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, GigaOM, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, Reuters, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, Know Your Cell, ZDNet, TUAW, Electronista, CNET, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch and PhoneArena

Himank Sharma / Reuters:

Apple falls on lower shipment forecasts, muted China debut

More: BGR, CNET and MarketBeat. Tweets: @reuterstech

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

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

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, Fortune, TechCrunch and The Atlantic Online

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Why Google Just Made iPhone King: Ads — By releasing new versions of Google Maps and Gmail for iOS this month, Google helped make the iPhone the best mobile phone on the planet. Why is Google, the owner of Android and Motorola, helping its ostensible rival? — The answer boils down to advertising.

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

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: Techdirt, Network World, ZDNet and Computerworld

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

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

More: ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Babbage and PC Pro

BBC:

US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN internet treaty

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: CNET, GeekWire, Reuters, ZDNet, TechCrunch and Forbes

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: AllFacebook, currybetdotnet, Guardian, Dave Winer and BuzzFeed. See also Mediagazer

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, VatorNews, CNET, DealBook and Betabeat

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

US Government Targets Torrent Sites, Cyberlockers and Warez Forum — In its latest “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” report the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has listed some of the world's largest file-sharing sites as venues for prolific copyright infringement.

More: Ars Technica

Doug Palmer / Reuters:

U.S. drops China's Taobao website from “notorious” list

More: Office of the United …, Bloomberg, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and ZDNet

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Seattle is the latest city to go around ISPs to get a gigabit network — Seattle has teamed up with Gigabit Squared, a startup that wants to invest $200 million in building gigabit broadband networks in six college towns around the country, to build a gigabit network.

More: seattle.gov, digitaltrends.com, Engadget, dailywireless.org, Ars Technica, WebProNews, SlashGear, KIRO-TV, bizjournals, Electronista, reddit.com, Xconomy and Softpedia News. Thanks:@solv17

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 and ACLU

Mat Smith / Engadget:

EE introduces the UK's first 4G tablet: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE available starting today — Adding to its catalogue of flagship 4G slabs, EE's launched its first tablet for its relatively young network. You can read up our thoughts on how the stylus-friendly tablet handled in our review …

More: SlashGear, Eurodroid, LAPTOP Magazine, T3 News, Softpedia News, Inquirer and Mashable!

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

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

Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:

Web Discussions: Flat by Design — It's been six years since I wrote Discussions: Flat or Threaded? and, despite a bunch of evolution on the web since then, my opinion on this has not fundamentally changed. — If anything, my opinion has strengthened based on the observed data …

Tweets: @qthrul, @aidanfeldman, @davidbgk and @adamhodgkin

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: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Snapchat Releases Video Sharing, Is Prototyping Monetization Features (Oh, And It's Still Not For Sexting) — Snapchat, the popular impermanent photo-sharing mobile app, is rolling out a major new feature: video sharing. Users can now share 10-second videos the same way they share pictures …

More: The Verge, Business Insider, AllThingsD and GigaOM. Thanks:@alexia

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Tote Bag, Anyone? Slate Considers Membership Model as Way to Get Readers' Cash — Would you pay for face time with Farhad? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) — Add Slate to the list of news organizations with a sudden interest in getting online readers to contribute some cash rather than leaving the whole thing to advertisers.

More: Capital New York and PandoDaily. Tweets: @jeffbercovici. See also Mediagazer

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Senate panel approves Franken's location privacy bill — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Sen. Al Franken's (D-Minn.) Location Privacy Protection Act on Thursday. — The bill would require companies to get a customer's consent before collecting or sharing mobile location data.

More: Forbes, Ars Technica, BBC, HOTforSecurity, WebProNews, PhoneArena and The Verge

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