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December 17, 2012, 6:10 PM

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Nielsen:

Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating — Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

The Nielsen Twitter TV Rating just made Twitter the first purely social ranking of US TV program popularity

More: DailyFinance.com and Engadget

Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi:

Introducing the Pi Store — We've been amazed by the variety of software that people have written for, or ported to, the Raspberry Pi. Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we're launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games …

More: Wired, Eurogamer, VentureBeat, Computerworld, SlashGear, CNET, digitaltrends.com, ITProPortal, Inquirer, PC Magazine and BetaNews

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Raspberry Pi Gets Own App Store: One-Stop-Shop To Make It Even Easier For Kids To Get Coding …

More: Wired

Reed Morse / YouTube Blog:

Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch — Life moves fast. To speed up recording, enhancing and sharing videos with your friends or the whole world, you can now use the YouTube Capture app on your iPhone or iPod touch. — Making sharing fast and easy

More: CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Engadget, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, GigaOM, MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, AppleTell, GadgeTell, Lifehacker, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, Off On A Tangent and parislemon. Thanks:@hunterwalk

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Said to Halt Larger Windows Phone on Display Resolution — HTC Corp. (2498) scrapped plans to produce a large-screen smartphone using Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s operating system because the screen would have had lower resolution than competing models, according to a person familiar with the project.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, digitaltrends.com, Engadget, WinBeta, LAPTOP Magazine, My Nokia Blog, TechCrunch, InfoWorld and GadgeTell

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat Competitor App — Facebook is currently testing its own built-in-house version of a “Snapchat-like” application, a messaging app that allows users to send impermanent photo messages to one another, according to sources familiar with the matter.

More: BuzzFeed, The Verge, digitaltrends.com, PandoDaily, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times, Mashable!, GadgeTell, SlashGear, Social News Daily, Forbes, VatorNews, Betabeat, nbcnews.com and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mattbuchanan and @brady

Sprint Newsroom:

Sprint to Acquire 100 Percent Ownership of Clearwire for $2.97 per Share — Transaction strengthens Sprint's position and increases competitiveness in the U.S. wireless industry — Interim funding allows Clearwire to continue LTE build-out and complement Sprint's LTE deployment

More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, Xconomy, AndroidGuys and IntoMobile

Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:

Sprint Reaches Deal to Buy Out Clearwire

More: GigaOM, Quartz and DSLreports

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare — Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location. Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook's Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google Maps for iOS downloaded 10M times in under 48 hours — Google's Jeff Huber has just announced via Google+ that Google Maps for iOS was downloaded 10 million times in under 48 hours from its release last week. — “We're excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” writes Huber.

John Davidson / Financial Review:

Microsoft urged to ditch Windows brand by Dell — Top Dell executives warned Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer against sticking with the Windows brand for its new tablet operating system Reuters — A top Dell executive warned Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer not to call its new tablet operating system …

More: Electronista, PandoDaily, GeekWire, WinBeta, Neowin and The Verge

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Hulu's 2012: Revenue up 65% to $695M, subscribers double to 3M, 28% more advertisers — Hulu had a bang-up 2012, and they've rounded it up in a blog post today. We combed through the figures and found the most eyebrow-raising statistics. Revenue for the streaming site was up 65% in 2012 …

More: Hulu Blog, CNET, TechCrunch, DailyFinance.com, Forbes, AllThingsD, The Verge, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, GigaOM and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Sencha Blog:

The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story — When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn't need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand …

More: The Verge, Computerworld and PandoDaily

CrackBerry.com:

New BlackBerry 10 UI images show off Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and more! — With an L-Series device in the hands of the folks over at Tinhte there has been plenty of hands-on time with BlackBerry 10 spread around. It's safe to say that what we're seeing is certainly not the shipping version …

More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and The Verge

NYT Bits:

What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You — Instagram released an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service on Monday, and they include lengthy stipulations on how photographs uploaded by users may be used by Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.

More: Wired, Inside Facebook and BuzzFeed

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Instagram debuts new privacy policy, set to share user data with Facebook beginning January 16

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Atlantic Online, Betabeat and Macgasm

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Have Apple's iPhone and iPad saturated the U.S. market? — A new Morgan Stanley survey suggests there is still room to grow — FORTUNE — “Despite concerns to the contrary,” writes Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty reporting the results of a proprietary survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers, “iPhone and iPad demand remain strong.

More: VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Mobile Marketing Watch

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 920 camera fuzziness getting fixed in PR1.1 update — We're not going to lie. After spending some quality time with several Lumia 920 prototypes in Finland last September, we came away extremely impressed with the PureView-branded camera aboard Nokia's Windows Phone 8 flagship.

More: The Verge, My Nokia Blog, IntoMobile, The Nokia Blog and Nokiapoweruser

evleaks / Unwired View:

HTC M7, successor to the One X, detailed: 4.7-inch 1080p, Sense 5, much more — HTC is once again preparing the launch of a flagship Android handset, according to a previously reliable source, among whose cutting-edge components will reportedly be several industry firsts.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Pocketables, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Android Community and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@uvstaska

Anthony McCartney / Associated Press:

Hollywood hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a hacker to 10 years in prison after he broke into the personal online accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera and other women and posted revealing photos and other material on the Internet.

More: The Verge and Associated Press

Evelyn Rusli / Digits:

U.S. Mobile-Ad Sales Expected to Nearly Triple This Year — Advertisers are warming up to mobile advertising faster than expected, according to a new report released on Monday by eMarketer. — The research firm says it now expects U.S. mobile advertising to nearly triple this year to more than $4 billion …

More: eMarketer Newsroom, Los Angeles Times, NYT Bits, Reuters, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Bloomberg and AdAge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft left ‘surprised’ by Google's Exchange ActiveSync announcement — Google announced last week that it plans to drop Exchange ActiveSync support for new devices on personal Gmail accounts from January 30th. While Microsoft has remained quiet on the issue affecting Windows 8 …

More: The Next Web and The Microsoft Office Blog

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Whitman: One Write-Off Too Far — Meg Whitman's efforts to turn HP around follow a proven script. But, in her efforts to frame future results against a background of past misdeeds, she might have gone one excuse too far and engaged in a potentially embarrassing fight against Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder.

Tweets: @qthrul

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

Amazon, Advertising's Sleeping Giant, to Awaken in 2013 — Amazon made a splash during October's Advertising Week while previewing its advertising business, but that was merely a ripple compared to the waves the e-commerce behemoth has coming for 2013 and beyond.

More: The Verge, PandoDaily and Wired

New York Times:

E.U. and Google to Discuss Antitrust Issues — BRUSSELS — The European Union's top antitrust regulator is expected to meet with Google executives early this week as settlement talks between the search giant and the U.S. authorities gain momentum. — The Europeans have been seeking …

More: The Verge

Steve Dent / Engadget:

French reporters infiltrate Foxconn iPhone 5 factory, find few of the vaunted changes (updated) — Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2, went undercover at the Zhengzhou iPhone 5 Foxconn factory recently (within the past two months) …

More: Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, The Register and TechEye

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Rhapsody finally debuts music streaming app for iPad months after Spotify and Rdio — It may come as a surprise that Rhapsody has gone this long without a presence on Apple's iPad, but the company has finally rolled out a music streaming app tailored for the iOS tablet.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, The Rhapsody Blog, Ars Technica and iPhone Hacks

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