The Briefing 21: For The Week Ending January 26, 2013

This is The Briefing, a ten-minute-or-less podcast of tech news, for the week ending January 26, 2013. In this edition: State-sponsored copyright piracy from the Caribbean, Financial earning season and Twitter launches its “Instagram for Video” service.

Also, I hope you enjoyed your Australia Day yesterday – and I do hope you enjoy your public holiday. I know I will.

For those who missed out what The Briefing is, here’s a blog post explaining the show. Feel free to offer any suggestions, improvements and constructive criticism for our new show.

Host: Terence Huynh
Length: 9:55

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/us-logitech-results-idusbre90n03z20130124

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/01/24/nokias-q4-2012-754-million-operating-loss-9-49-billion-in-net-sales-2-9-million-lumia-phones-sold/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/22/google-announces-q4-2012-earnings/

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-earnings-cheat-sheet-windows-is-back-to-cash-cow-number-one-7000010301/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/24/samsung-q4-2012-earnings/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/technology/apple-earnings.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/21/3832838/windows-phone-carddav-caldav-support

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/01/apple-removed-a-photo-app-from-the-app-store-because-artistic-nudity-is-bad/

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/01/24/twitter-introduces-vine-for-ios-an-app-for-sharing-six-second-looping-videos-on-the-service/

http://allthingsd.com/20130124/facebook-cuts-off-friend-finding-access-to-vine-twitters-new-video-app/

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/24/microsoft-cheaper-surface-tablets-coming/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/intel-makes-its-mobile-push-into-africa-partners-with-safaricom-to-release-the-android-powered-yolo-smartphone/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-24/lenovo-says-rim-bid-among-options-to-boost-mobile-unit.html

http://torrentfreak.com/antigua-government-set-to-launch-pirate-website-to-punish-united-states-130124/

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/aleqm5gmdgdu3hd4fgrjd9ycbz-amqvb-w

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/unbonjuif-twitter_n_1971676.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/french-government-hashtag-new-term-twitter_n_2544848.html