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January 9, 2013, 12:50 PM

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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
T-Mobile USA to soon sell iPhones, cut subsidies: CEO  —  (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE) unit T-Mobile USA will start selling the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone in about three to four months and will enforce its plan to get rid of cellphone subsidies in a similar timeframe, according to Chief Executive John Legere.
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone  —  Apple Inc. is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped.  —  While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Microsoft confirms Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15  —  Microsoft on Tuesday mass emailed its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013.  On that date, all users will be migrated to Skype …
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming  —  A rare and candid talk with Valve's boss  —  We just sat down for a rare and wide-ranging interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell, who opened up to The Verge with details about the company's upcoming …
Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Samsung's big push for 2013: content, corporates  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the global leader in consumer smartphones, is planning two major thrusts in 2013: bulking up mobile content and moving faster into the corporate market dominated by Research in Motion.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft  —  Google today filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video-compression technology on the Xbox.  —  Microsoft wants to license two standards-essential patents for H.264 that Google controls …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
It's official: 3D is dead  —  The tech industry's annual hot air balloon show is dead, and the world's better for it  —  There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade.  You might not realize it immediately …
David Kravets / Wired:
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit  —  A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the “Mark of the Beast” because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip has lost her federal court bid Tuesday challenging her suspension …
More: Mashable!
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Dropbox to be included on all Samsung flagship phones and camera  —  Users get 50GB of cloud capacity for two years for free  —  LAS VEGAS — Dropbox on Wednesday announced tighter integration of its cloud storage and file-sharing service with Samsung products, from smartphones to televisions.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Hits 200 Million Users Worldwide — Adding New Users At Rate Of Two Per Second  —  LinkedIn has announced it has reached 200 million user registrations worldwide — with new users being added at an average rate of two per second (or 172,800 per day).
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Justice Department against most sales bans for infringing key patents  —  (Reuters) - Companies that own a key patent, such as those that ensure mobile and other electronic devices work together, should be allowed to win sales bans as a punishment for infringement only in rare, very specific cases …
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Baseball Dumping Dugout-to-Bullpen Landlines  —  The reserve clause is dead.  And so are wool uniforms.  There are no longer eight teams in each league.  And the Houston Astros have departed the National League.  —  Major League Baseball is now about to disconnect the landlines that link dugouts to bullpens.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook Removes Instagram User Counts From Developer API After Holiday Traffic Confusion  —  In the aftermath of a controversial story claiming Instagram's traffic numbers were down, the data that was the source of the story has now disappeared altogether.  —  Instagram was in the spotlight …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Verizon: 9.8 million activations during Q4  —  Summary: In its latest regulatory filing, Verizon says it will see record activations during the fourth quarter, driven mostly by the iPhone.  —  Zack Whittaker  —  Following AT&T's move yesterday to dish out the latest details on the state of its affairs …
James Trew / Engadget:
Samsung announces eight-core Exynos 5 ‘Octa’ chip at CES  —  Samsung's second keynote, and the news keeps coming.  The mobile giant has just annouced a new Exynos 5 Octa chip, based on the ARM big.LITTLE / Cortex A15 architecture.  Designed to be a low powered, high performance mobile processor.
More: The Verge, BGR and Gizmodo
Ryan Gallagher / Slate:
U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report  —  Participants work at their laptops at the annual Chaos Computer Club computer hackers' congress in Hamburg, Germany.  They probably would not be pleased with FISA.  —  Europeans, take note: The U.S. government …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Certified BitTorrent Box Brings uTorrent to Your TV  —  With a quarter billion active users a month BitTorrent is without a doubt the most used file-sharing platform.  —  The vast majority of these BitTorrent users download video files, but despite these staggering statistics it can still …

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