A summary of the links we shared throughout the day to our Twitter account @WinObs
- Windows 8.x breaks 10 percent, Internet Explorer 11 makes a splash | Ars Technica
- Cybersecurity forces align as FireEye acquires Mandiant | Security & Privacy – CNET News
- 80 Percent Of World Leaders Are On Twitter – AllTwitter
- Samsung Galaxy S5 rumored to launch at MWC 2014 – Neowin
- Facebook sued for allegedly making private messages into public “likes” | Ars Technica
- Techmeme: Snapchat Says It's Improving Its App, Service To Prevent Future User Data Leaks (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
- Techmeme: Groupon Finalizes $260 Million Deal for Ticket Monster, LivingSocial's Korean Business (Jason Del Rey/Re/code)
- Mediagazer: How Netflix uses the 76,897 micro-genres it assigns to videos (Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic Online)
- Prepare for Changes to Your MPN Membership in February – TechNet Blogs
- AT&T to offer $200 credit to T-Mobile switchers, in preemptive jab at rival – GeekWire
- Snapchat responds to hack by promising app update to let you opt out of its Find Friends feature – The Next Web
- Notable apps in 2013 – Part 1 of 3 – MSDN Blogs
- Some Comcast customers can't connect their Xbox One to the Internet via Wi-Fi – Neowin
- New emulators available for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3
- Mediagazer: Mossberg and Swisher of Re/code discuss competition and “old” vs. “new” journalism (John Paczkowski/Re/code)
- ASUS posts online manual for unannounced Windows 8.1 8-inch tablet – Neowin
- PopCap CEO Dave Roberts retiring, co-founder John Vechey taking over – GeekWire
- Kindle Fire and Surface gain market share post-Christmas, but iPad rules the roost – GeekWire
- Quadrantid meteor shower to set night skies ablaze | Crave – CNET
- Techmeme: Replacement and new Surface Pro 2 devices being sent out with upgraded specs, includes newer CPU (Ron/WinBeta)
- Another Nokia "Normandy" Android phone image leaked – Neowin
- Skype blogs still down a day after defacement by hackers – Neowin
- Global Creative Director No More: Singer Alicia Keys Leaves BlackBerry
- New problem for Target: Gift cards – Puget Sound Business Journal
- Backdoor in wireless DSL routers lets attacker reset router, get admin | Ars Technica
- Techmeme: Surface, Kindle Fire are likely holiday winners, but iPad still rules the web surfing roost (Kevin C. Tofel/Gigaom)
- Top tech stocks of 2013: Here's where you could have made (and lost) a lot of cash – GeekWire
- Weekly Windows Store sale doubles choices to six apps, indie games and Xbox titles – The Fire Hose – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
- 2014: The year mobile subscriptions exceed number of people on Earth – Puget Sound Business Journal
- Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 gets stealth silicon upgrade | Microsoft – CNET News
- City councilman pens resignation letter in Klingon | Crave – CNET
- Trends of cloud computing in 2014! – MSDN Blogs
- Is desktop computing dead? – MSDN Blogs
- CBS, NBC live streaming NFL playoffs for free, but Fox makes things tougher for Seahawks fans – GeekWire
- Mediagazer: Amazon Decides to Stop Hiding Its Web Video Service (Peter Kafka/Re/code)
- Council Spotlight: Who are the TechNet Wiki Community Council members? – Wiki Ninjas – Official Blog of TechNet Wiki – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
- Tweeting sharks forestall 'Jaws'-like doom | Crave – CNET