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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

iOS 6's ‘Do Not Disturb’ Not Shutting Off Automatically on New Year's Day — iOS 6 users who use Apple's scheduled “Do Not Disturb” feature may find that their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch hasn't automatically disabled the feature on New Year's morning. — The issue was reported on Whirlpool forums as well as our own MacRumors forums.

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple airs unfortunately-timed ‘Do Not Disturb’ ad with Venus and Serena Williams [video] — You can't make this up. — As many iPhone owners wake up New Years Day and realize their Do Not Disturb is stuck on, they might also catch a glimpse of Apple's new iPhone 5 commercial.

More: CNET, MacRumors, MacStories, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, iPhone Hacks and App Advice

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Inside Intel's TV service: No CES announcement, but plenty of juicy details — Both Forbes and TechCrunch reported this past weekend that Intel may announce its much-rumored TV service at CES next week. I've been told by a knowledgeable source that this is inaccurate …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Neowin, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, dailywireless.org, Mobile Marketing Watch, iClarified, VentureBeat, The Tech Report and PC Magazine

Devorah Lauter / Telegraph:

Apple's Paris store hit by New Year's Eve raid — The Apple shop in Paris's Opera district was robbed by armed, masked men on New Year's Eve, under the noses of riot police patrolling the nearby Champs Elysées. — The Apple store in Paris — Reports claimed the thieves …

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Zach Honig / Engadget:

Ubuntu teaser counts down to January 2nd launch, hints at touch-based OS — “So close, you can almost touch it.” The Ubuntu home page is currently dominated by a banner with that teaser, along with a clock counting down to 8AM ET on Wednesday, January 2nd.

More: Manila Standard Today, ZDNet, Mobile Magazine, SlashGear, Electronista, The Verge and Softpedia News

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

New services bypass Apple DRM to allow pirated iOS app installs without jailbreaking on iPhone, iPad — Late last year, the closure of the uber-popular Installous marked the end of a promiscuous era in iOS app piracy. Now, several new services are on the rise that are filling the gap …

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Google Is Attacking Apple From The Inside Out—And It's Working — After years of hammering away at Apple's share of the smartphone market with cheap-to-free Android phones, Google has lately adopted a new tactic to win mobile. — Call it “the worm strategy”—because Google is attacking Apple from the inside out.

More: TheStreet.com, Forbes, PalmAddict, ValueWalk, T3 News and SlashGear. Tweets: @getwired

Elise Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum:

Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux — Babak Parviz, head of the Google Glass project, hints at what to expect next … IEEE Spectrum: What is Google trying to accomplish with Google Glass? — Babak Parviz: We wanted to have a device that would do two things that we think would be useful for a lot of people.

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, BGR and IEEE Spectrum

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Sayonara, netbooks: Asus (and the rest) won't make any more in 2013 — A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing — Sayonara, netbooks.

More: TIME, Neowin, TechEye, Daring Fireball and GigaOM. Tweets: @tmaslen

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Hewlett-Packard Says It May Dispose of Units Not Meeting Targets — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) said it's evaluating the disposition of businesses that don't meet goals more than a year after Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman said she didn't plan to spin off the personal-computer division.

More: SiliconANGLE and AllThingsD. Tweets: @qthrul

Zach Honig / Engadget:

Sony Xperia Z ‘Yuga’ and ZL ‘Odin’ make a press shot debut on New Year's Day — Are you ready to welcome in 2013? It's sure to be another hot year for handsets, and if this pair of leaked Xperia smartphones is any indication, Sony is likely to be off to a solid start come CES.

More: TechCrunch, Unwired View, Know Your Cell, Softpedia News, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, BGR, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, Xperia Blog and AndroidOS.in

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Apple to Launch iBookstore in Japan in January 2013 — The Nikkei reported today that Apple will be expanding their ebookstore soon. Some time in the near future, possibly as early as next month, Apple will start selling ebooks in Japan. They have reportedly already signed a number …

More: Macgasm, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, The Verge and App Advice

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