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Surur / WMPoweruser:
Leaked Windows Phone Roadmap gives us a peek into the future — For those who wonder what Microsoft's game plan with Windows Phone is, this leaked roadmap should at least provide some pointers, up to date as of October 2011. — It lays the foundation with the release of Windows Phone 7 as a high end, differentiated product.
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Online Retailers Home In on a New Demographic: The Drunken Consumer — After enjoying a few drinks, some people go dancing. Others order food. And for some, it's time to shop online. — “I have my account linked to my phone, so it's really easy,” said Tiffany Whitten, of Dayton, Ohio …
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Betabeat, TechFlash, Digital Trends and Marketing Pilgrim
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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Dear Google+ — Earlier today I noticed something funny. My Google profile picture — the picture associated with my Gmail account, my GChat account, my Google+ account, etc — had vanished. A bug? Nope. — It turns out, Google — without telling me — went into my account and deleted my profile picture.
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WebProNews and @counternotions
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not? — There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can't fully grok. One of them is profitability. — I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) …
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Venture Capital Dispatch and A VC
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Insights on the writing of Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson shares new information on his best-selling biography of the Apple founder. — FORTUNE — Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs has topped The New York Times bestseller's list for eight consecutive weeks now.
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MacNN
Fred Wilson / A VC:
Mocked And Misunderstood — When people ask me, “how do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest successes?”, I usually tell them to look for the companies and services that are mocked and misunderstood. For some reason, that correlates highly with the biggest breakout successes.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon, Apple Soar In Customer Satisfaction In 2011; Netflix Plummets — According to customer experience analytics company ForeSee, e-commerce giant Amazon once again topped consumer satisfaction in online retail after taking the top spot in 2010. However, Netflix, which had a dismal year, plummeted in customer satisfaction.
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Vlad Savov / The Verge:
3.7 million Android devices activated over Christmas weekend — Andy Rubin continues to use his Twitter account as the broadcasting platform for Android's latest statistical achievements. This time, he's letting us know that a magnificent 3.7 million new Android devices were activated over the holiday weekend.
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Peter Farago / Flurry Blog:
iOS & Android Shatter Records on Christmas Day
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Asana Launches iPhone Version Of Its Group Task Manager — Group task manager startup Asana launched its first native mobile app last week. It's mostly a straight port of its existing mobile web app, so the main benefit at present is that switching back and forth with other apps is much faster than dealing with Safari.
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Business Insider and Lifehacker
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Patents for Photo Booth and a Major Fitness Center App — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of eighteen newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our first patent report of the day we mainly cover two of these patents.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Kindle case maker calls Amazon.com a corporate bully in federal lawsuit — M-Edge Accessories, a 50-person Maryland maker of sleeves and protective cases for electronic reading devices, is suing Amazon.com for patent infringement, unfair competition, intentional interference with contracts and false advertising.
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Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Geek.com, Gear Diary, Electronista and Pocket-lint
John Cook / GeekWire:
Amazon.com quietly acquires the social shopping whizzes at Quorus — A few weeks ago, we reported that Quorus co-founder Logan Bowers had left the upstart to become a senior software engineer at Amazon.com. Well, as it turns out, the former Zillow and Expedia developer will have some familiar faces hanging around the Amazon offices.
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WebProNews and AllThingsD, Thanks:toddbishop
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Eric Schmidt discusses Google's competitors, China, acquisitions and more — Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, discussed Google's work and activies during an interview at an event held by The Economic Club of Washington's event earlier this month, broadcast by C-Span yesterday.
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Dennis Fisher:
WiFi Protected Setup Flaw Can Lead to Compromise of Router PINs — The US-CERT is warning about a vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup standard that reduces the number of attempts it would take an attacker to brute-force the PIN for a wireless router's setup process.
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The Verge, Softpedia News, Electronista and Slashdot
