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December 27, 2013, 3:10 PM

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack — Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitted that card numbers …

More: Target Pressroom, NYT Bits, BGR, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, USA Today, BestTechie, Guardian, Mashable and SlashGear

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Nokia pulls Here Maps from the App Store, blames iOS 7 — In the wake of Maps-gate, Nokia was one of several outfits that rushed to Apple's aid with a navigation app of its very own. A year later, however, and that same offering has been yanked from the App Store before it could send a note to its neighbors.

Om Malik / Gigaom:

Dear Quartz, maybe it's you that needs new glasses and a map. 2013 was not a lost year for tech — If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes and righteous founders to lament the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley.

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @eldon and @katiefehren. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

2013: mobiles stagnated, wearables a letdown, arrogance of tech's ruling class increased — 2013 was a lost year for tech — All in, 2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley. Innovation was replaced by financial engineering …

More: Nextgov and bloc note. Tweets: @coryhaik, @jayrosen_nyu, @rr, @karaswisher, @alexia, @ktbenner, @jeffturner, @jennydeluxe, @samfbiddle and @nytimesbits

Guardian:

NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules — Judge William Pauley noted the dragnet program was ‘controversial but lawful’ and dismissed lawsuit brought by ACLU — A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone data is legal …

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Google Play is giving away ‘Yeezus’ and top singles from 2013 — Google's making it easy to catch up on some of the best music of the year. As part of what it's calling Play Picks 2013, it's offering Kanye West's Yeezus and Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe free for a limited time …

More: Betabeat, Gigaom, Business Insider, Phandroid, Electronista and hypebot. Tweets: @caseynewton

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Rdio closes Vdio: 'We weren't able to deliver the differentiated customer experience we had hoped for' — Rdio has shuttered Vdio, its on-demand service for buying and renting movies and TV shows. — “We have decided to discontinue the Vdio beta service,” the company said in an email.

More: Vdio Help Center, CNET, AllThingsD, Gigaom, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge and App Advice. See also Mediagazer

Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom:

Nintendo to close eShop temporarily due to high traffic, merger woes — Nintendo is experiencing some serious hiccups in its newly unified eShop platform, and the system is scheduled to go offline for 12 hours starting at 4pm EST/1pm PT, according to The Next Web.

More: Nintendo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Engadget, DSLreports, Ars Technica, destructoid, Siliconera, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Kotaku, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Joystiq, Polygon, Kotaku and Polygon

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Christmas shoppers on iOS outspent Android users by more than 5 to 1, according to IBM — Apple's iOS Completely Blew Away Google's Android For Shopping On Christmas — Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, continues to blow away Google's Android in mobile commerce, according to IBM analytics.

More: IBM, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, AllThingsD, iMore, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Marketing Land, BGR, VoIP Watch, Benzinga, MacDailyNews, Tux Reports Network …, App Advice, AppleTell, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, PhoneArena, MacNN and MobileBurn.com

Tweets: @monkbent, @stevesi and @john_frankel

Grant Gross / PC World:

CTIA website shows mobile app data usage — A new website launched by mobile trade group CTIA shows smartphone and tablet users how much data is used by popular apps. — KnowMyApp.org, unveiled by CTIA Thursday, allows mobile device owners to estimate an app's data usage before it's downloaded.

More: iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, BGR, AppleInsider, Engadget, Light Reading, MacNN, DSLreports, eWeek, MacRumors, Gigaom, Business Insider, App Advice, Android Community and Broadcasting & Cable

Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal:

Former HTC Executive Is Charged With Leaking Company Secrets — Taiwan Prosecutors Indict Five Others for Taking Kickbacks and Falsifying Expenses — TAIPEI—Taiwan prosecutors indicted a former HTC Corp. executive for allegedly leaking company secrets, as well as five other employees …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, Gigaom and The Verge

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You — SAN FRANCISCO — Before the Internet, books were written — and published — blindly, hopefully. Sometimes they sold, usually they did not, but no one had a clue what readers did when they opened them up. Did they skip or skim?

More: Mediashift and TechEye. See also Mediagazer

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