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December 21, 2012, 1:50 AM

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Kevin Systrom / Instagram:

Updated Terms of Service Based on Your Feedback — Earlier this week, we introduced a set of updates to our privacy policy and terms of service to help our users better understand our service. In the days since, it became clear that we failed to fulfill what I consider …

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Tweets: @reckless, @antderosa and @tim

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Instagram rolls back advertising section of Terms of Service to original, in place since 2010

More: BuzzFeed and SocialTimes

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Instagram Walks Back Ad Language, but Leaves the Door Open

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Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

RIM Falls 10%, Worries Shift To BlackBerry Service Fees — TORONTO—Research In Motion Ltd. swung back to profitability in its fiscal third quarter, but the BlackBerry maker fell short of resolving some of its biggest challenges as it gears up to introduce its new line of smartphones next month.

More: MarketBeat, Digits and The CIO Report

Ian Austen / New York Times:

A Million Users Desert BlackBerry, and Revenue Falls 48% — OTTAWA — Research in Motion said on Thursday that it lost a million BlackBerry owners worldwide during the company's last financial quarter, the first such decline in the device's history. — It reported other bad news as well …

More: PhoneArena

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

RIM beats street by losing less than expected in Q3 with EPS of -$0.22, revenue of $2.7B

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Tweets: @sammywalrusiv, @m4tt, @reckless and @asymco

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

RIM's CIO Will Retire At The End Of The Year

More: GigaOM, AllThingsD, Reuters and Reuters

Bloomberg:

HTC Said to Plan Windows Tablets to Challenge Apple-Led Market — HTC Corp. (2498) plans to make tablets based on the Windows operating system, giving Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) another ally in its challenge to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) in the $63.2 billion market, people familiar with the matter said.

More: The Verge, Engadget, NextBigWhat, Neowin, WinBeta and PhoneArena

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers — Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device.

More: GigaOM, The Verge, Wired, CNET, ZDNet, Macgasm, Electronista, Pocketnow, MacRumors and Forbes

evleaks / Unwired View:

BlackBerry Z10: first BlackBerry 10 handset pictured in black, white — As the January 30th launch draws closer, more details are coming to light regarding the upcoming BlackBerry 10-powered handsets Research in Motion plans to announce. Both a Torch-like full-touch device …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneArena and CNET

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Tries Letting You Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery, Changes Messaging Privacy Settings — Sometimes you need to message a non-friend, and today Facebook starts testing if it can make a little money and cut spam by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees that message.

More: Facebook Newsroom, CNET, GigaOM, The Verge, Gizmodo, Mashable!, VatorNews, Forbes, Electronista, WebProNews, Betabeat, Neowin, Softpedia News, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Computerworld, bizjournals, Los Angeles Times, digitaltrends.com, nbcnews.com, Inside Facebook and The Next Web

Tweets: @stevekovach, @dangillmor, @mathewi, @semil and @mathewi

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Facebook Tests Pay-For-Delivery Messaging; Brands May Get Access Later

More: AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, The Atlantic Online, Digits, Business Insider, SlashGear, AllFacebook and Engadget

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Facebook Sharing Bill Clears Senate, Waiting For Obama's OK — Want to tell your Facebook pals what you're watching on Netflix? Netflix wants to help you do that. — And it's now very close to doing that for American users: The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would give …

More: CNET, Bloomberg, TechCrunch and The Verge

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Instagram rolls out new updates, notes temporary privacy display error — Instagram is currently in the process of rolling out a few minor updates to the app Thursday night, including a new pink-ish filter called Mayfair, iOS6 integration allowing for easier Facebook sign-ups to the app …

More: The Verge and TechCrunch

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Instagram for iOS gets new Mayfair filter and returns ability to share photos from any album

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft offers patches to WebKit to aid touch compatibility — In a move that has raised eyebrows, Microsoft has submitted a patch to the WebKit project to extend the open source rendering engine with a prototype implementation of the Pointer Events specification that the company is also working …

More: Neowin

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Senator introduces bill to regulate data caps — Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced Thursday's legislation. — Flickr user Sam Craig — Earlier this week we covered a new white paper from the New America Foundation arguing the recent proliferation of data caps instituted by broadband providers …

More: Senator Wyden's Press Feed, Techdirt, Net Competition, DSLreports, The Verge, Technology Liberation Front, Broadcasting & Cable and Wired

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft killing off Expression suite of Web and design tools — Microsoft has quietly announced that its Expression suite of Web and design-oriented tools is being killed off and phased out. — Vector graphics drawing tool Expression Design 4 has been end-of-lifed.

More: ZDNet and WinBeta

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Home-Automation Startup R2 Studios in Acquisition Talks — A secretive startup founded by the man who popularized the Slingbox has been in talks with companies considering buying it, people close to the company say, with Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Apple Inc. cited as participants.

More: The Verge, PhoneArena, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, Techie Buzz, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Electronista. Tweets: @jessicalessin

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu's Fork in the Road — As Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc. battle it out for dominance in online video, owners of the much smaller Hulu LLC, Hollywood's own online video service, are under pressure to decide which direction to go. — Jason Kilar, chief executive of Hulu …

Tweets: @pkafka

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Acquires Social Portfolio Platform Behance To Power Its Creative Cloud Community Features — Adobe just announced that it has acquired Behance, a New York-based online platform where creative professionals can showcase their portfolios and where businesses can find talent.

More: Behance, Adobe Blogs, Adobe, GigaOM, The Next Web, GigaOM, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Mashable!, The Verge, SocialTimes, PetaPixel, Electronista, John Nack on Adobe and AllThingsD. Thanks:@fredericl

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

SoundTracking 2.0 Rocks Android-Only Features To Bake In YouTube And A Music ID Lock Screen Widget — There's some cool things you can only do on Android, and today music moment sharing app SoundTracking starts takes advantage of them. You can watch YouTube music videos …

More: The SoundTrack of Our Lives and Billboard.Biz

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Verizon responds to AT&T, adds 29 LTE markets — Verizon customers in Selma, Al. and Port Angeles, Wa. are among the cities getting access to the company's 4G LTE network. — Verizon has added 29 new LTE markets to its service. — The company announced today that Selma, Al. and Port Angeles …

More: Verizon Wireless, digitaltrends.com, BGR, TechSpot, PadGadget, PC Magazine, SlashGear, App Advice, PandoDaily and iPhone Hacks

Sven Grundberg / Wall Street Journal:

Spotify Rival Deezer Eyes U.S. — Online music streaming company Deezer stepped up pressure on its peers on Thursday with the launch of a free streaming service in more than 150 countries and said it is looking for a partner to enter the U.S. market. — The Paris-based company …

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, Music Ally, SlashGear and Pocket-lint

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Facebook adds drag-and-drop bulk photo uploads, tests Timeline changes — In a win for interface efficiency, Facebook's publisher box is going to start letting users upload multiple of photos at once by dragging and dropping. As reported by Inside Facebook, The change will make it a lot easier …

More: ABCNEWS, Inside Facebook, Engadget, Electronista, Ubergizmo, AllFacebook, AllFacebook and Mashable!

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

The Hacker Way: Facebook reveals its top hacks of 2012 — The culture at Facebook has always been known to be about The Hacker Way. Through this philosophy, the company has periodically held and participated in numerous hackathons on its campus. Today, it has shared what it says are the top hacks from the past year.

More: Facebook, WebProNews and VentureBeat

Dan Havlik / The Imaging Resource:

Polaroid confirms plans to intro interchangeable lens camera that runs Android at CES 2013 — Polaroid confirmed to Imaging Resource that it will soon unveil a new interchangeable lens camera that will run Google's Android operating system. The company offered few other details about the forthcoming camera.

More: SlashGear, The Verge, Android Community, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Google and Engadget

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Snapguide Comes To The iPad Because The Future Of The How-To Is On The Tablet — I wouldn't have an iPad if I didn't have to do two things: Do interviews and cook. The first I have to do for work but the second I do for fun. Which is why I think that Snapguide's bold and stylish move …

More: iPhone Hacks, TUAW, GigaOM, Snapguide and Macgasm

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Chitika: iOS 6 Spike Likely Due To iPhone In China, Not Google Maps, As U.S. Growth Remains Flat — While a study this week from MoPub suggested that iOS 6 adoption indeed did see a spike coinciding with the introduction of Google Maps, Chitika has a new, longer-term look at adoption in the U.S …

More: iPhone Hacks

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