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December 26, 2012, 9:40 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
Startups Adjust to Web's Down Cycle  —  Prominent venture capitalist John Doerr coined the phrase “SoLoMo” in 2010 to describe how three technology trends—social, local and mobile—were fueling a new Internet boom.  —  But now that Facebook Inc., Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc. have fizzled …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google's music matching reportedly replacing explicit songs with clean versions  —  Some users of Google Music's new scan-and-match functionality, recently rolled out in the US, are complaining of problems when it comes to explicit content in their library.  Explicit songs are reportedly …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Strategically Important Micro SIM Patent  —  In April of this year we first reported on Apple's patent application for a Micro SIM connector.  The timing of Apple's new micro SIM connector patent couldn't have been more perfect in light of the battle between Nokia and Apple …
Daniela Hernandez / Wired:
Facebook?!  Twitter?!  Instagram?!  We Did That 40 Years Ago  —  It all feels so new, doesn't it?  Facebook.  FaceTime.  Google+ hangouts.  Hashtagging your memories on Twitter and Instagram.  —  But this holiday season, as you and your enormous collection of Apple gadgets spend …
More: The Verge
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
The music industry dropped DRM years ago.  So why does it persist on e-books?  —  The American e-book market is about 100 times smaller than the digital music market.  —  shiftstigma  —  So maybe you were lucky enough to get an e-reader for the holidays.  In fact, maybe you're reading this article on one right now!
Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Bravo's ‘Start-Ups’ gets quiet send-off, but one cast member pronounces it a success.  —  When Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley” roared into the tech world's consciousness last month, some hailed it as further proof geeks have become — in the words of one cast member — “the new rock stars.”
Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:
Test Run: Facebook's Poke App Is a Head-Scratcher  —  A photo of my friend Peter's dog pops up on my phone for three seconds, then disappears.  I respond with a picture of an enormous pile of nachos I'm working on at a Brooklyn bar.  —  Later in the night, I send my colleague Jenna a video …
AllGov:
Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email  —  The federal government will continue to access Americans' emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval.
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime  —  Updated: Oh to be a fly on the wall for the conversations that must be going on between Netflix and Amazon engineers this holiday season.  —  If you're not a Netflix subscriber, you may not yet know that issues …
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Iran Suggests Attacks on Computer Systems Came From the U.S. and Israel  —  Iran reported a number of new cyberattacks on Tuesday, saying foreign enemy hackers tried in recent months to disrupt computer systems at a power plant and other industries in a strategically important southern coastal province …

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