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Peter Farago / Flurry Blog:
iOS & Android Shatter Records on Christmas Day — Historically, more iOS and Android apps are downloaded on Christmas than on any other day of the year. This is due to a massive influx of smartphones and tablets given as gifts. As fast as loved-ones can unwrap their shiny, new Galaxy IIs …
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Brian Suthoff / Localytics:
Holiday Gifts Drive Apple iOS 12x Higher; Android Leads in More Countries — Apple iOS and Android devices were apparently popular gifts worldwide over the holiday weekend, with the number of new devices seen by Localytics over 12 times higher than previous weekends.
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Paul Allen / Google+:
Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012. — Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012.
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Rafe Blandford / All About Windows Phone:
Windows Phone Marketplace passes 50,000 apps — The Windows Phone Marketplace has now passed the 50,000 app and games submission mark. Content is being added at the rate of 265 items per day. At the time of writing, 50,126 items have been published. Of these, 17,276 were added …
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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Dropbox Adds Auto-Import From Your Camera — DropBox is getting into the Photo Stream game in a new experimental beta — Dropbox is trying out a neat new feature that will give it magical Photo Stream-like abilities. Everybody's favorite cloud-storage app has added photo and video import.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Planning Completely Redesigned iPhone for Fall 2012 Launch? — BGR reports that Apple is planning to launch a completely redesigned iPhone in the fall of next year, following the trend set by the iPhone 4S of new hardware being released later in the year as opposed to the mid-year timeframe used previously.
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Phishing e-mail targets new Apple customers, steals billing information — Just got a new Macbook, iPad or other Apple gizmo for Christmas? A new e-mail scam is targeting you. — Cyber criminals are sending around a very official looking e-mail asking Apple users to update billing information …
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
LCD makers in $539 million price-fixing accord — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, Sharp Corp and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to pay $539 million to settle claims they conspired to fix prices and stifle competition for LCD panels in televisions, notebook computers and monitors, according to a court filing.
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Intel's 32nm Medfield SoC specs and benchmarks leak — Intel's Medfield may still be a ways from breaking into the smartphone and tablet market, but we're finally starting to get some concrete details on its specs and capabilities. VR-Zone got the bitty gritty on Chipzilla's first true SoC …
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Airtight brings Airplay support to GoogleTV, minus mirroring, DRM, and music — A new application in the Android Market available for GoogleTVs running 3.0 and up will allow users to stream content from the iPad or iPhone using Airplay, Apple's wireless streaming feature built into iOS.
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Cody Lee / iDownloadBlog.com:
Functioning and Legal Siri Port Finally Released in Cydia — Since Apple unveiled Siri as an iPhone 4S-exclusive feature back in October, the entire jailbreak community has been waiting for it to be ported to older devices. We've seen videos of hackers running the digital assistant on non-4S hardware, but never a public release.
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
YouTube Slam pits viral videos against each other — Google is attempting to remedy the dispute between which viral videos are the most entertaining with a new experiment called YouTube Slam. — According to the YouTube official blog, YouTube Slam is a video discovery experiment it created in partnership with Google Research.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
buySAFE Sues Google Over “Trusted Stores” Service, Fears Annihilation — Google was hit with yet another patent lawsuit last week, but this one at least makes for some very, very interesting reading. — A company called buySAFE, which offers a safe-shopping service to online retailers and their customers …
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Go Daddy is no longer on the U.S. Congressional list of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) supporters — Here is the link to SOPA supporters: http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/ Rogue%20Websites/List%20of%20SOPA%20Sup porters.pdf List of Supporters: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act 60 Plus …
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Namecheap cashes in on SOPA with MoveYourDomainDay
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
People Spend Twice As Much Time On Netflix Than On Hulu — Netflix and Hulu are the two leading video streaming services on the Web when it comes to mainstream TV shows and movies. More people watch Netflix online than Hulu, and have since about 18 months ago.
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Samsung May Upgrade Galaxy S Phones To Ice Cream Sandwich After All — After causing an uproar over its decision not to upgrade its year-old Galaxy S line of Android phones to Ice Cream Sandwich, Samsung may be backtracking on the decision. — According to a report on MSN Korea …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google+ Launches 3 New TV Ads Featuring Muppets, Bill Walton & Some Engaged Chick — What do you do when your viral growth starts to taper off? Advertise! That strategy has seemingly been working well for the Google Chrome web browser (now with a quarter of worldwide browser market share) …
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Pentagon approves Android device for Department of Defense networks without Market access — The Pentagon officially certified an Android device alongside Android 2.2 for use on Defense Department networks, which would be the first smartphone -other than RIM's BlackBerry- to receive approval.
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Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:
Research in Motion Directors Pressed to Exert Control Over Blackberry Maker — TORONTO—After a disastrous year at Research in Motion Ltd., Wall Street and a wide swath of corporate Canada are now asking: Where's the board? — RIM shares hit a series of multiyear lows after warning …
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