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Update: Wikipedia Is Dark, But Mobile Site/Apps Stay Bright In SOPA Protest

A small loophole for Wikipedia’s SOPA and PIPA protest, in which the English-language version of the site has gone dark for 24 hours: the mobile site and apps are still working.

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Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013

The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will make money in years ahead.

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Updated: RIM Said To Court Samsung’s Bid After Pushing Others Away

It’s hard to see Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) making it through 2012 without some sort of massive change, but could that really involve a sale of the company to Samsung? That’s what a new report claims, flying in the face of earlier reports that RIM’s management and board of directors were leaning against a sale.

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Sprint, HTC Hatch Plan To Remove Carrier IQ Software From Handsets

Sprint (NYSE: S) will no longer require the companies who make phones for its network to install Carrier IQ’s software, which prompted an uproar after the software was thought to be logging keystrokes. Although the software itself appears legit, Sprint’s desire for that much information about its users raised further questions.

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@ CES: One Laptop Per Child Group Launching $100 Android Tablet

Nick Neogroponte’s dream of bringing low-cost laptops to children around the world is ready for its mobile version. The XO-3 is launching at CES this weekend as a ruggedized tablet running Android that costs just $100.

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What To Expect At CES: Tablets, TVs, And Transition

The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. Next week’s show will set expectations for 2012: can anyone catch the iPad? Are Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) capable of providing the third leg of the mobile operating system stool? And are we finally ready to embrace Internet TVs en masse? Here’s a look what we expect will be the major themes of the week:

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The Razr Ain’t Cutting It: Motorola Mobility To Fall Short On Q4

Not brilliant news for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility and its would-be buyer, Google: the handset maker today issued preliminary Q4 results that will fall short of market expectations, citing competition from other handset makers and costs related to patent litigation.

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Report: Sony’s Hirai Promoted To President, Stringer Still Chairman And CEO

In a move that further sets up Kazuo Hirai as the heir apparent at Sony (NYSE: SNE), the company has promoted him to president, taking that title away from Howard Stringer but keeping Stringer in place as CEO and chairman of the board, according to a report.

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Updated: Exclusive: AP Branches Out, Adds Pulse To Its Digital Mix

Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating there, too. Today it is announcing a deal with one of the bigger tablet news-reading apps, Pulse, to run AP text, video and photographic coverage via Pulse. It will be the first time the AP will appear within the service.

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Samsung/HTC: Two Sides Of An Android Coin. Why’s Samsung Winning The Toss?

Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market—over half of all smartphones being used today—but that rising tide is not lifting all boats. Sales figures out today from the two largest Android device makers, Samsung and HTC, present two different pictures, with Samsung posting record profits and HTC’s declining. Here’s a few thoughts on why that might be the case.

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