The Briefing 17: Week Ending December 1, 2012

This is The Briefing, a ten-minute-or-less podcast of tech news, for the week ending December 1, 2012. In this edition: The Australian Government implements the first steps of the Convergence Review, Nintendo Wii U sells out in America and the Xbox 360 tops Nintendo, but when will a new Xbox come out?

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Host: Terence Huynh
Length: 6:03

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57554183-235/nintendo-400k-wii-u-units-sold-1.2m-devices-total/

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/27/3698428/microsoft-xbox-360-black-friday-sales-figures-2012

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-29/microsoft-said-to-plan-next-xbox-console-for-2013-holiday-season.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/29/us-groupon-ceo-idUSBRE8AS1EQ20121129

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/apples-ipad-mini-4th-gen-ipad-arrives-in-china-december-7-iphone-5-follows-december-14/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20556775

http://gigaom.com/2012/11/29/judge-says-no-fundamental-right-to-use-facebook-tosses-anti-trust-case/

https://techgeek.com.au/2012/11/27/twitter-users-soon-able-to-download-entire-archive-will-talk-to-china-but-no-compromises/

https://techgeek.com.au/2012/11/29/kaching-goes-native-for-android-will-launch-facebook-payment-service-in-2013/

https://techgeek.com.au/2012/11/30/conroy-quotas-no-new-fta-network/

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/29/scott-forstall-deserved-to-be-ousted-from-apple-says-former-apple-exec/