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January 1, 2013, 10:30 PM

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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.

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Developers begin seeing new Apple iPhone hardware and iOS 7 in usage logs — Currently under development, traces of Apple's new iPhone and iOS software have begun surfacing in app usage logs. Developers have contacted The Next Web to share references to a new iPhone identifier …

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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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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: CNET, The Verge, 9to5Google, BGR and IEEE Spectrum. Tweets: @jowyang

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 …

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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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BBC:

Sony stops production of PlayStation 2 — Sony's PlayStation 2 gaming console first went on sale in 2000 — Sony has ended Japanese production of its best-selling PlayStation 2 (PS2). — The hardware first went on sale in March 2000 in Japan and since then more than 150 million PS2 consoles have been sold.

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Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Techmeme's biggest (i.e. tallest) stories of 2012 — Now that we've examined the year's trending terms, our final retrospectacular tour of 2012 examines the stories themselves. On Techmeme, the biggest stories usually become the tallest stories as different angles of reporting and analysis pile up …

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @mathewi and @theromit

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

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

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