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Charlie Kindel / cek.log:
Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn't it Taken Off? — People ask me all the time why, if I think Windows Phone is such an excellent product, sales appear so lackluster. My belief is Microsoft's approach with WP7 has a impedance mismatch with the carriers & device manufacturers …
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WinRumors, All About Windows Phone, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, eWeek, Computerworld, Daring Fireball, Windows Phone Daily, Softpedia News, Mark Damon Hughes, @loic, Business Insider, Electronista, Pulse2, WMPoweruser, @ckindel, LiveSide.net and GeekWire, Thanks:theromit
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Oh, Charlie, you should have been here for Christmas — Oh, Charlie. Charlie Kindel, that is. He used to work at Microsoft. He still has Microsoft in his blood as he tries to explain why Windows Phone 7 hasn't taken off. — I thought about posting this over on Google+ or Facebook or Twitter …
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
The Windows Phone Problem In Three Words: Way Too Late. — Earlier today, Charlie Kindel, a former Windows Phone GM, posted some thoughts on why Windows Phone hasn't taken off. Essentially, he blames Microsoft's model pressuring both OEMs and carriers — so much so that neither really wants to push the platform.
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Technologizer, Daring Fireball, All About Windows Phone, Between the Lines Blog and @manan
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Why Android updates are a mess: it's the business model
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, @asymco, Daring Fireball, ZDNet, parislemon and The Verge
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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Agence France Presse:
Italy fines Apple for misleading consumers — ROME — Italy's anti-trust authority said Tuesday it was imposing a 900,000-euro ($1.2-million) fine on US tech giant Apple for misleading consumers on assistance services and guarantees for its products. — “Sanctions of a total of 900,000 euros …
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Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
Google's Travel Push Angers Web Rivals — Flight Searches, Which Place Google at Top, Anger Web Rivals — Google Inc.'s newest push into online travel has begun to roil the industry, the latest example of the company extending its market power into increasingly diverse aspects of economic life.
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Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus shun HTML, causing the infographic plague. — By choosing images over links, and by restricting markup, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are hostile to HTML. This is leading to the plague of infographics crowding out text, and of video used to convey minimal information.
Thanks:kevinmarks
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Apple iTV will arrive in 32- and 37-inch sizes this summer, says DigiTimes — Rumors of an Apple television have resurfaced with supply chain sources telling DigiTimes that they're starting to prepare components for 32- and 37-inch “iTV” sets launching in Q2 or Q3 of 2012.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak available now, iPhone 4S and iPad 2 still in development — Hackers on Tuesday released an untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak solution for all iOS devices but the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. In a post on his blog, iOS hacker pod2g announced that the Chronic Dev Team …
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Malia Wollan / New York Times:
For Start-Ups That Aim at Giants, Sorting the Data Cloud Is the Next Big Thing — SAN FRANCISCO — The idea of big data goes something like this: In a world of ever-increasing digital connectivity, ever larger mountains of data are produced by our cellphones, computers, digital cameras, RFID readers, smart meters and GPS devices.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, SiliconANGLE, confused of calcutta and Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Namecheap cashes in on SOPA with MoveYourDomainDay — SOPA has caused an uproar in the tech industry, and rightly so. Go Daddy, which supported SOPA and then abandoned its stance after customer outrage, has taken a hit and Namecheap stepped in for the kill. So far, Go Daddy has lost over 21,000 domains.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block
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BBC:
China GPS rival Beidou starts offering navigation data — China plans to launch a further 25 satellites to extend the reach of its navigation service — China's satellite navigation system has become operational, according to an official. — Beidou now offered location …
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Élyse Betters / 9to5Google:
USPTO rejects Oracle's patent claim on Google Android — The United States Patent and Trademark office delivered a final rejection to Google at the expense of Oracle. — According to Groklaw, the USPTO issued the rejection Dec. 20 in the reexamination of Oracle's U.S. Patent No. 6,192,476.
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