We are joined by rstevens of Diesel Sweeties to discuss a mail app called Mailbox, Apple working on a less expensive iPhone, Windows announces selling 60 million Windows 8 licenses to date, Target will now match competitors prices year-round, a Panasonic 20-inch Windows 8 tablet, Kickstarter had 2.2 million backers in 2012, Firefox 18 is 25% faster, Monopoly is getting all new token pieces, T-Mobile CEO mocks AT&T and Verizon at CES, LinkedIn hits 200 million users, Google UK celebrates 150 years of the London Underground, and the presidents get a Justice League makeover on US currency.

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• Mailbox - Put Email In It's Place
  We redesigned the inbox to make email light, fast, and mobile-friendly. Quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash. Scan an entire conversation at once with chat-like organization. Snooze emails until later with the tap of a button.
• Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone - WSJ.com
  While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing and a less expensive version of its flagship device could launch as soon as later this year, one of the people said.
• Microsoft: 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold to date | ZDNet
  Microsoft has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to PC makers and those upgrading as of early January, officials said at the Consumer Electronics Show.
• Target will now price-match Amazon, other retailers year-round | The Verge
  Target today announced it plans to continue the practice on a year-round basis.
• Improved sharing & new HTML5 features for SkyDrive.com
  You now have a single, unified view into how each of your files is shared so you can more easily control who has access to your files. We’ve also added more HTML5 features for touch devices making the SkyDrive experience faster and more fluid across devices and we’ve introduced more drag-and-drop capabilities to make it easier to manage your files, photos and documents.
• Panasonic shows off 20-inch Windows 8 tablet with insane 4K resolution | The Verge
  There aren't many details about the tablet just yet, save for stylus input support and a sort of real-time cloud-based collaboration tool. We've seen these display specs from Panasonic before, of course, but this is the first time we've seen it on a real product. With such a pixel-dense display, you'd get incredibly detailed control using a stylus, and most of the company's on-stage demos showed how much you can do with so many pixels.
• Kickstarter’s best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded | VentureBeat
  Kickstarter released its “best of” list for 2012, and the numbers are impressive: 2.4 million people funded at least one project and pledged a total of $319 million. That’s more than $600 per minute over the course of the year, with 18,109 projects successfully funded.
• “The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco | Ars Technica
  Two months ago, AT
• Firefox 18 gets up to 25% faster JavaScript with IonMonkey, Retina and preliminary WebRTC support - The Next Web
  Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 18 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a new JavaScript compiler, preliminary WebRTC as well as Retina support (on Macs).
• Mozilla's Firefox OS demoed, coming to emerging markets later this year (hands-on) | The Verge
  Mozilla is at CES showing off its upcoming Firefox mobile OS on a prototype device. It's come a long way since we saw it as "Boot to Gecko" back at MWC last February, and now looks a bit more like a fully-fledged operating system — Mozilla say it's two weeks from being completed.
• Dish Network Makes $5.15 Billion Offer for Clearwire - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD
  Satellite TV player Dish Network has made an unsolicited offer to buy out Clearwire, the wireless broadband service that’s mostly owned by Sprint, for $3.30 a share, or about $5.15 billion.
• 10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year Altucher Confidential
  
• Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming | The Verge
  
• Token change for Monopoly to replace an iconic piece | Lifestyles | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
  Hasbro has launched a "Save Your Token" campaign to retireeither the race car, iron, Scottie dog, wheelbarrow, shoe, top hat, thimble or battleship. The company is letting fans vote until Feb. 5 for the one they want to keep via the Monopoly Facebook page. The one with the lowest total goes directly ? and permanently ? to jail.
• T-Mobile CEO pokes the bears, calls AT&T's network 'crap' and mocks Verizon | The Verge
  T-Mobile's CEO John Legere, who took the helm back in September, pulled no punches in his remarks during the carrier's press conference here at CES tonight.
• LinkedIn Tops 200 Million Users
  LinkedIn on Wednesday announced it had passed an important milestone: 200 million members.
• To Make a More Efficient LED, Scientists Look to Fireflies | Wired Design | Wired.com
  The LED may be the future of lighting, and they’re already pretty efficient, but they’ve got nothing on nature. A really close (scanning-electron-microscope close) look at some fireflies led scientists to a new refractive design that could dramatically increase efficiency in LEDs.
• Google Doodle in U.K. Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the London Underground
  Web surfers in the U.K. were treated Wednesday morning to a Google Doodle celebrating the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, that city's subway transit system.
• Presidents on US Money Reimagined as Justice League Comic Heroes
  Justice League Of America, a series of defaced US currency by German artist and designer Aslan Malik, shows Presidents on the $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills reimagined as Justice League comic book heroes.
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• Token change for 'Monopoly' to replace an iconic piece
  Hasbro is retiring one of its classic Monopoly playing pieces, but is replacing it with one of five new ones up for fan voting. Here are Hasbro's "Token Facts" about what you might find near Boardwalk and Park Place soon.
• Qualcomm's insane CES 2013 keynote in pictures and tweets | The Verge
  A night of cringeworthy conversations, product demos, and music
• diesel sweeties : robot webcomic & geeky music t-shirts
  
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• rstevens 3.01 (rstevens) on Twitter
  
• How RCA Lost the LCD - IEEE Spectrum
  
• Tina Roth Eisenberg to Keynote SXSW Interactive March 10 | SXSW 2013
  

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