Top Stories of the Day // December 28, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Dec 28, 2012 Darrell Etherington Early Apple Computer And Tablet Designs Reveal The iMac And iPad That Might Have Been Apple worked closely with Frogdesign during the eighties, creating Apple's early design language and charting the visual path of Apple computers from the Apple... read more Matt Burns Kim Dotcom To Host Mega's Launch Event At His New Mega Zealand Mansion Next Month Kim Dotcom doesn't do things small. The man behind the Megaupload empire is about to launch his next service dubbed simply Mega. But don't expect a simple press... read more Darrell Etherington OUYA Ships 1,200 Development Consoles, Shows Off Its Pre-Release Android Gaming Hardware On Video OUYA, the Android-based affordable gaming console that inspired a wide range of reaction from tech watchers and gamers alike when it debuted on Kickstarter back... read more Ingrid Lunden Apple's $160K Copyright Fine In China Is A Pittance, But Could It Open The Door For Further Claims? read more Darrell Etherington Raspberry Pi Hack Turns The Ultra-Affordable Computer Into An AirPlay Receiver What can't the Raspberry Pi do? Well, it definitely can operate as an AirPlay receiver for Apple's Wi-Fi audio streaming protocol, it turns out. Cambridge... read more Ingrid Lunden Instagram Sees Drop Of 4M Daily Facebook Connected Users Over Christmas, But TOS Kerfuffle May Not Be To Blame Sure, it's not unlike the New York Post to be sensationalist. But in this case in misinterpreted data to suggest Instagram was hit harder by backlash to its... read more Darrell Etherington When Kickstarter Delivers: Thanks To Simple, Effective Design, Supr's Slim Wallet Exceeds Expectations I've backed an embarrassing amount of Kickstarter projects, almost all of them in the hardware/gadget categories, and I've been disappointed more than I've been... read more Natasha Starkell The Social Gift-Giving Wars — Which One Looked Best For The Holiday Season? With the holiday season upon us, let's take a look at some of the gift-giving services and how well they work, writes contributor Natasha Starkell.... read more Catherine Shu Silvercar Launches Its Simplified Vehicle Rental Service At Dallas/Fort Worth Silvercar has announced that its airport-based car rental service will debut on January 14, 2013 for travelers visiting Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,... read more Catherine Shu HP Confirms Federal Investigation Of Autonomy's Alleged Fraud In Its Annual Report HP has confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation stemming from the Palo Alto company's allegations that it uncovered widespread... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // December 27, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Dec 27, 2012 Jordan Crook Rumor: Apple Building Bluetooth Smart Watch According to Chinese gadget news site Tech.163, Apple may be in the process of developing its own smart watch that connects to your Apple devices via Bluetooth.... read more Darrell Etherington Apple CEO Tim Cook Receives Just $4.17M In Compensation In 2012, Versus $378M In 2011 Apple has filed a preliminary proxy statement with the SEC today ahead of its annual shareholder meeting for 2013, and it reveals executive compensation metrics... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Reportedly Looking To Bring Mac Mini Production To U.S. Shores Apple is said to be considering a move that will bring Mac mini production to the U.S., through manufacturing partner Foxconn, according to supply chain sources... read more Catherine Shu Samsung Unveils ChatON 2.0, Gives Sneak Peeks Of Its Smart TV, Smart Hub Ahead Of CES Samsung is keeping its fans entertained during the lull between Christmas and New Years with a several announcements and teasers:  a CES 2013 Smart TV teaser... read more Alex Williams Botched Software Update To Networking Gear Caused One Of GitHub's All-Time Worst Outages A botched software update to networking gear caused one of GitHub's all-time worst outages last weekend, the second major disruption that customers of the the... read more Jordan Crook The Woz Uses Cycloramic And An iPhone 5 To Street View His Kitchen There are only two excuses for using the term "amazeballs!": you're Zooey Deschanel and you star in the hit TV sitcom New Girl, or you've just witnessed the... read more John Biggs In Praise Of Dangerous Toys When I was growing up, my dad taught me that potassium nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal made gunpowder. He told me that you could add iron to the mix to get a red... read more Darrell Etherington Toshiba Building A Lytro-Style Camera Sensor For Smartphones And Tablets, Planned For 2013 Launch Toshiba is intent on making a camera sensor for smartphones and tablets that borrows a trick from Lytro and allows users to select a focus area in their photos... read more Ingrid Lunden One In Four Americans Owns A Tablet, Overtaking E-Readers, As Printed Book Consumption Continues To Decline: Pew We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non-)numbers on how well their Kindle line of devices has sold over this... read more Anthony Ha There Are Now 1,000 Members Listing Their Homes Through 'Unhotel' Service Onefinestay If you owned a swanky apartment or house, would you really want to rent it out to strangers? Well, startup onefinestay seems to have found an audience for its... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // December 26, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Dec 26, 2012 Alexia Tsotsis That Instagram Taco Bell Commercial Isn't Part Of Its Business Model Beloved phone camera app Instagram sure had a tumultuous week before Christmas, when a change in the wording of its terms of service caused the Internet to... read more Ryan Lawler Twitter Is Already Winning The Social TV War, But It Will Soon Do More Twitter is reaching out to TV producers and showrunners to find out ways that it can further integrate with the TV experience. That could mean Twitter-based... read more Jordan Crook Inside Snapchat, The Little Photo-Sharing App That Launched A Sexting Scare It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011... read more Alex Williams Developing That Connected Space Between The Cloud And Everything Else read more John Biggs Amazon Pulls Self-Published Memoir About Star Wars Because It References "Star Wars" After months of selling a self-published memoir about the effect Star Wars has had on his life, author Gib Van Ert found that Amazon has pulled the title... read more Sara Inés Calderón In Mexico, Tech Is Used To Help Combat Narco Violence, Insecurity Google has been used for many ends, but in the hands of researcher Viridiana Rios, the search engine has become a tool to fight Mexican drug cartels and help... read more Catherine Shu Samsung Seeks U.S. Sales Ban On Some Ericsson Products As The Two Continue Wrangling Over Patents The patents war between Samsung Electronics and Ericsson rolls on. The Korean electronics company has announced that it filed a complaint last week against the... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // December 25, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Dec 25, 2012 Catherine Shu Netflix Crippled On Christmas Eve By AWS Outages 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were planning to... read more James Altucher I Am A Neanderthal, And You Probably Are, Too Editor's note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur.... read more Mike Butcher 15 Things European Startups Might Want For Christmas What do European startups want for Christmas? We've come up with a list of ideas. Feel free to ad your own in the comments.... read more Yvo Schaap TechCrunch Crunched: Exposing The Latest Tech Trends Editor's note: Yvo Schaap is a 27-year-old entrepreneur from Amsterdam who loves data and code.... read more Catherine Shu Instagram Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Related To Last Week's Change Of Service Terms Instagram just got a lump of coal in its stocking: a class action lawsuit, which was filed in response to its change of service terms last week. Reuters... read more Catherine Shu China Now Has 1.104B Mobile Users, While Mobile Communications Revenue Totaled $116.26B Over First 11 Months of 2012 Statistics released yesterday (link via Google Translate) by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) show that as of the end of November... read more Sara Inés Calderón Ret.io, A Crowdsourced Answer To Corruption In Mexico Three years ago Mario Romero Zavala and José Antonio Bolio decided to create a Twitter account in Mexico City to alert people to cumbersome police checkpoints... read more Anthony Ha Amazon Says Its Customer Review Guidelines Haven't Changed, But It Is Cracking Down On 'Promotional Content' Good news, everyone! We can totally start trusting Amazon reviews again.... read more Hugh MacLeod A Holiday Gift From Gapingvoid: "I'm Not Delusional, I'm An Entrepreneur" Gapingvoid's unique style of visual communication has long been popular among successful and aspiring entrepreneurs. They decorate their offices with prints of... read more Catherine Shu Uber Rival Hailo Reportedly Set To Close $30M Funding Round As It Expands In The U.S. London-based mobile taxi network Hailo is set to close a $30 million round of funding as it sets its sights on the U.S. market, reports AllThingsD. The Series... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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