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There’s no need for Microsoft to build its own Windows Phone 8 devices because partners are already offering a great hardware experience. That’s according to Terry Myerson, who leads Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, and who spoke at the D: Dive into Mobile conference on Tuesday. Myerson specifically gave Nokia and HTC a shout-out as two of the hardware partners that provide compelling Windows Phone 8 handsets.

The smartphone situation is the complete opposite of the PC and tablet markets where Microsoft surprised many with the Surface RT and Surface Pro computers it announced last June. These machines compete directly against Microsoft’s long-time licensing partners such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, to name a few. It also may be why some of these companies are trying to break away from from Windows. HP introduced an inexpensive Android tablet in February while Lenovo now offers a Google Chromebook for the education market, for example.

Myerson’s comments don’t surprise me, even though we’ve heard rumors of a Surface phone for months. I don’t see what Microsoft can offer from a hardware perspective that its Windows Phone 8 partners aren’t already offering.

In particular, Nokia is building a wide range of superb hardware for the mobile platform; the direct result of a huge partnership with Microsoft it began in February of 2011. The flagship Nokia handsets meet nearly all, if not all, of Microsoft’s current Windows Phone 8 hardware requirements. There’s simply no reason for Microsoft to build a Surface phone at this point; it may make sense in the future if the company plans a vertical product design strategy.

Because of that, Myerson’s comments raise a different question in my mind: If the available Windows Phone 8 hardware is already good enough to keep Microsoft from designing its own, is the software simply not resonating with enough people at this point? The operating system is intuitive and fresh, but outside of Microsoft’s own horn-tooting, very little independent data shows that Windows Phone 8 is a raging success.

As Microsoft likes to say, however, its phone effort is a marathon, not a sprint. Perhaps later in the race the company will design and sell its own phone hardware. For now, there’s no need to wait for a Surface phone.

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Google announced a couple of updates to its mobile search results today. One is for expandable site links like these:

“When you’re searching for information on the go, speed matters,” write software engineers Hiroshi Mizuno and Alex Fischer on Google’s Inside Search blog. “If you want to check out Rotten Tomatoes for a new movie to go see with your friends, you might not want to navigate through the Rotten Tomatoes homepage to find the list of top movies while your friends are anxiously waiting. Now, there’s a faster way to get to the Rotten Tomatoes page with just the info you need most — just look for a new quick link for “In Theaters” underneath the main Rotten Tomatoes link when you search on your mobile phone. You’ll see these expandable sitelinks appear for many sites to help you get to a specific section quickly.”

The other new feature is the addition of “quick view” badges next to some results.

“Say you’re new to poker or need a quick refresh on hands — just search for ‘poker hands’, and you can now click the blue badge and see a quick view of the Wikipedia page listing out the poker hands immediately,” the engineers say.

This is considered an experimental feature, and currently just works with Wikipedia results, but Google says it will expand this in time.

In what is pretty big news for Google Fiber customers, future Google Fiber customers, and, most importantly, competing cable companies, Google has just patched a glaring hole in their cable offerings by adding HBO to the mix.

“Jon Snow. Hannah Horvath. Sookie Stackhouse. If any of these names ring a bell for you, then you’re going to be very happy to hear that we’ve just added HBO to our TV lineup. Starting today, our Google Fiber TV customers will be able to add on our new HBO package to their plan for $20/month (plus tax). The plan will include HBO, HBO2, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Latino, HBO Comedy, and HBO Zone,” says Product Head Larry Yang on the Google Fiber blog.

Not only HBO, but Google Fiber is now offering Cinemax (Max, MoreMax, ActionMax, ThrillerMax, WMax, @Max, 5-StarMax, and OuterMax) for $10 a month.

Google Fiber already offered Showtime and Starz for $10 a month, and now if you want to get all four premium channels you can do so for $40. If you were planning to get all four anyway, this saves you $10 a month on the HBO.

In all, this means that you can get Google’s 1 Gbps internet + TV and 4 premium channels (including HBO) for $160 a month in Kansas City (and soon, Austin). Talk to plenty of cable subscribers and you’ll find that that’s not a bad deal, comparatively.

Google hopes to start construction on Fiber in Austin in 2014, and should have their first customers up and running by the middle of that year.

On Monday, the citizens of North Korea celebrated the 101st birthday of Kim Il-Sung, the first leader of the country and the grandfather of its current leader, Kim Jong-un. Today, North Korea has issued more threats, continuing the rhetoric that has been sparking tensions on the Korean peninsula for weeks.

According to a report from Reuters, the new threats are related to South Korean protests that took place during the North’s celebration. Portraits of North Korean leaders were reportedly burned during the protests, and North Korea is now demanding an apology from South Korea. According to the report, North Korea has threatened “sledge-hammer blows” if it does not receive such an apology.

North Korea has been releasing inflammatory statements for weeks, criticizing joint U.S/South Korean military exercises near the border between the Koreas. The rhetoric has included the statements that North Korea now considers itself in a state of war and that it has rejected the Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953. The country has also cut off all communication with South Korea, including hotlines meant to stave off war. The U.S. has responded by deploying a greater military presence to the region, including F-22 stealth fighter jets.

In other North Korea news, former NBA star Dennis Rodman has stated that he will be returning to North Korea in August to “hang and have some fun.”

Late last week, the ACLU reported that the IRS probably obtained emails without a warrant. The group came to this conclusion after an agency handbook from 2009 said that Internet users “do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.” Now the agency is firing back saying it does no such thing.

The Hill reports that IRS Commissioner Steven Miller was present at a congressional hearing today where Sen. Chuck Grassley grilled the commissioner on the agency’s email policy. Miller said that his agency obtains a search warrant before requesting emails, and even went further by saying that the agency never requests emails during civil investigations.

Miller also said that his agency follows the ruling set in United States v. Warshak, a Sixth Circuit Court decision that said the government must obtain a warrant before requesting emails from a service provider. The decision is only binding in the Sixth Circuit, but the IRS says it applies the ruling to operations nationwide.

What’s interesting here is that the documents obtained by the ACLU suggests the IRS does the exact opposite. The documents never explicitly state that the IRS snooped through emails without a warrant, but everything points to this conclusion. Even when taking United States v. Warshak into account, the IRS reportedly said that it only needed to worry about a warrant in the Sixth Circuit.

Of course, senators brought up this disparity during the hearing. Miller said that his agency will work on clarifying its procedures, but still insisted that it obtained a warrant when snooping through emails. Unfortunately, Miller said that he couldn’t say the same thing for other online communications like Facebook messages, but that’s only because he didn’t know the agency’s specific warrant requirements for these new types of communications.

Today’s hearing precedes the Senate Judiciary Committee’s planned markup of the decades old ECPA law on Thursday. Currently, the ECPA lets law enforcement obtain emails with only a subpoena if the email in question is over 180 days old. The bill going before Committee on Thursday will require law enforcement to obtain a warrant when obtaining emails and other online communications regardless of its age.

Newspapers are still better at engaging audiences than any other form of media, according to a new Newspaper Association of America (NAA) survey conducted by Nielsen, and print newspaper advertising remains effective. With newspaper ad revenue plunging, though, the picture isn’t as rosy as this survey makes it appear — and newspapers can do more, especially when it comes to social networking and mobile.

The NAA-Nielsen study surveyed 5,000 adults on “11 different metrics for engagement, including trust and ethics, how connected media makes people feel, the value or inspiration it adds to life, and the effectiveness of advertising.” On that measure, print and online newspapers came out on top:

Advertising in print newspapers and on their websites is also effective. The survey asked respondents about different metrics of advertising effectiveness, like “usually notice ads,” “likely to purchase” and “best place for Black Friday shopping.” The average score across all media was 35 percent, with newspapers a bit higher:

The NAA study, however, doesn’t address the fact that newspapers’ ad revenues are plunging. As my colleague Mathew Ingram reported recently, a different NAA survey showed that the U.S. newspaper industry has lost over $40 billion in print ad revenue over the last decade, and while papers’ digital ad sales rose slightly, it wasn’t nearly enough to compensate for the lost ad revenue. By that measure, the fact that audiences find newspaper advertising effective is only a small consolation.

It’s time to do more on mobile

The study suggests that “content publishers of all sorts should move as quickly as possible to connecting with users on mobile devices.” National newspapers are already doing this, with 43 percent of respondents checking a national newspaper on a mobile phone daily. Local papers, however, have a lot to make up in that area:

Tablets performed better: “Fully 44 percent of tablet owners said they accessed content from a national newspaper in the last week and 41 percent from a local newspaper, though here, too, social media ranked first (57 percent).”

Luckily, this appears to be an area where newspapers know they have to improve: A December 2012 survey from the Alliance of Audited Media found that 63 percent of newspaper and magazine publishers agree that “tablets are the most important digital channel for their publication’s future.”

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Digital marketing agency BlueGlass has apparently happened upon some troublesome times.

Patrick Price, managing director of BlueGlass EMEA, tweeted out this YouTube video addressing the situation:

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“I know all of you have been hearing rumors about BlueGlass collapsing, folding, winding up, etc., the conference not taking place, or whatever,” says Price. “As of right now, the situation is as follows: BlueGlass USA is low on cash, and has a high amount of outstanding debt – the exact amount in either case I cannot disclose because I’m not employed by the company, and we are desperately seeking for a solution to the current problem.”

He continues, “Kevin Gibbons, the managing director of BlueGlass UK, and I, have stepped up towards all the current stock owners of BlueGlass USA, and have provided them with an offer to take over their stocks, and to restructure BlueGlass USA in order to fulfill as much as possible of clients’ expectations and demands, trying to find new solutions for each and every one of the employees, and ensuring the continuance of the BlueGlass X conference.”

“As of right now, we do not have any answers of the current BlueGlass stock owners yet,” says Price. “We are confident that we are very close to a solution, and that BlueGlass USA will continue in either form or another. So will the conference, and any ongoing client project work is subject to further negotiation, and approval of stock owners, and finding new solutions.”

BlueGlass was formed back in 2010, when a group of big names in the online marketing world joined forces to form a “new agency concept that combines proven online marketing strategies and results with a suite of proprietary technologies.”

Some of those names have quietly left the company in recent months, perhaps a hint at things to come.

Hat tip to ShoeMoney, who shares a Facebook post from Benjamin Cook, who says the company lost its CMO and CEO last week.

Well guys, it’s 4/16, April 16th, which means its officially Foursquare Day (four, squared). It’s the fourth annual celebration of Foursquare, an event that was first begun as a grassroots effort and has morphed into a much larger-scale app-holiday that finds businesses everywhere offering deals and specials in celebration.

For instance this year, Foursquare gave small businesses an incentive to offer specials today. They offered to feature any and all businesses who participated in the search results on foursquare.com.

“From checking in, to uploading tips, photos, and addresses, to telling friends about the app, the 33 million people on Foursquare have brought us to where we are today. Four years and over 3.5 billion check-ins since we launched, our community-created map of the world is more complete than ever,” says Foursquare.

In celebration of the 4th Foursquare Day, Foursquare has created a new interactive visualization that lets you look at your past year of check-ins in a few interesting ways.

First, you can organize them linearly by time, and then you can randomize them.

But the coolest ways to look at the past year of data is by category (food, nightlife, professional, shops, travel, etc):

And by connections, which will show you an awesome map of how you traveled between your check-ins:

You can check out your own visualization here.

It’s been a big year for Foursquare, complete with a bunch of core changes to the service that put more emphasis on search and recommendations than the app has ever done before. No bigger, though, than the recent update to version 6.0. Foursquare also announced $41 million in funding.

Also, remember to check-in today to receive your special 4sqDay 2013 badge. Foursuare may not be putting as much of an emphasis on the gamification aspect of the service, but that doesn’t mean that users still don’t love their badges.

At her funeral ceremony tomorrow, we will remember Margaret Thatcher as much for her leadership style as for her polarizing politics — in fact, the two are almost identical. The essence of Thatcher’s leadership was her steadfast, tenacious, and determined style which is more often associated with revolutionaries than conservatives. As the head of the Conservative party, she attacked the status quo and stuck to her guns in driving her agenda through opposition. It is precisely those qualities that made her the most influential British politician since Winston Churchill.

However, just as we’ve found in our decades of experience consulting to senior leaders — including CEO’s of major companies — Thatcher’s greatest strengths were also her biggest weaknesses.

Leadership is often defined in terms of opposites — autocratic vs. democratic, task-oriented vs. people-oriented, short-term vs. long-term. One fundamental duality — most evident in Prime Minister Thatcher’s case — concerns a leader’s interpersonal style: the assertive, forceful approach vs. a participative, enabling approach.

Most leaders intellectually understand the complementary nature of forceful and enabling leadership. Nonetheless, we find over and over again that few leaders are able to integrate both sets of behaviors in their own repertoire. Instead, they gravitate to one side or the other and risk taking that approach to such an extreme that it reduces the complementary approach to a void. We have all seen hard-charging, forceful leaders who come on too strong and diminish the ability of other people to contribute. And we have all seen the flipside, when a supportive people-person seems unable to make the tough calls and drive for results.

It’s a scary proposition for most leaders that the very qualities that have been central to their success can turn out to be the biggest threats to their careers, as we explain in Fear Your Strengths. This raises a choice every leader must make, even if most don’t give it much thought: Should you keep playing to your strength and risk overdoing it, or build up other capabilities where the odds of success are uncertain? Let’s take Thatcher’s story as a case study:

Margaret Thatcher was, as HBR senior editor David Champion put it, a fighter. It was her trademark grit, determination, ideological certainty, and scorn for consensus politics that drove her political achievements — privatization and the revitalization of the British economy, full repudiation of the socialist experiment, standing up to the tyranny of the Soviet Union. She gained so much respect on the world stage that Britain was able to exert great influence around the globe, winning over none other than U.S. President Ronald Reagan as a vocal advocate.

But it was overdoing those strengths that made Thatcher so divisive. She could be obstinate, stubborn, uncompromising; what The Economist called “a prim control freak.” Her fighting spirit left her with a cabinet that had learned its lesson too many a time: It was pointless to contradict or challenge her. She denied herself a loyal opposition — a counterforce to keep her honest, to challenge thinking, to test out ideas, and elevate understanding. Thatcher dealt with healthy opposition within her camp the same as she dealt with opposition from rivals: She came out swinging.

“I must say the adrenaline flows when they really come out fighting at me and I fight back,” she once said, “I stand there, and I say ‘Now come on Maggie, you are wholly on your own; no one can help you.’ And I love it.”

It was her unwillingness to consider other opinions and refusal to back down on what seemed a relatively minor domestic issue — a new system of local taxation called the poll tax — that led to her political downfall. Even when key cabinet ministers warned her that the measure would backfire, she fought on, crossing the line between conviction and rigidity. Shortly after, violent public protests erupted and her approval rating plummeted to 20 percent, the lowest in British history. By the end of the year, she was forced to step down. John Major, her successor, promptly eliminated the poll tax in favor of the council tax that still exists today.

Now, the straightforward advice for forceful leaders like Margaret Thatcher is that they have two options: They can ease up at times on their great ability to take strong stands and hold their ground — that is, choose their battles more selectively. They can also do the opposite of what they’re good at — allow a trusted advisor or group of advisors to influence them — to help keep their worst tendencies in check. Admittedly, for self-made types like Thatcher whose life experience has taught them that they can only count on themselves, that’s counterintuitive. Still, we’ve seen it done. Tigers can change their stripes, at least enough to stay out of trouble.

But here’s our question for you: What if Prime Minister Thatcher had learned to be more open to influence and selective in choosing her battles — could she still have had the tremendous impact that she undeniably had, but with a perhaps more graceful exit from office? Would her legacy have been remembered differently — more firm than rigid, more strong than stubborn, less polarizing and divisive?

Microsoft’s relentless push for Outlook.com brings an app update to the enemy camp, today — big move given that Android now represents a large portion of today’s mobile market. Two weeks ago, Microsoft unleashed a major calendaring service overhaul.

The interface has been completely revamped and new features come along for the ride. As you may know, Google has pulled support for Exchange ActiveSync, but Microsoft now works around that.

According to Steven Kafka, who works on Outlook.com program management: “We believe that the best mobile experience is enabled through Exchange ActiveSync– which provides a rich, powerful, network-optimized experience for Windows Phone, iOS and other mobile devices. However, native support for Exchange ActiveSync on Android devices varies significantly and so we build a separate app to ensure as many people as possible can have a great Outlook.com experience across all their devices”.

The new mobile app not only provides the same look as its web counterpart, but also adds new features including conversation threading, filters for unread and flagged mail, and also the ability to mark messages as spam.

While the updates are welcome and should benefit many customers, it seems this also partially is a shot in the escalating war between Google and Microsoft that has resulted in the above mentioned Exchange ActiveSync cutoff and the whacky Scroogled campaign. The result, in this case at least, is good for consumers.

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Now here’s a head-scratcher for your coffee break. Today, Google released a new tool that allows businesses to make Chrome their default while launching legacy browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer) for apps that need them. Strange thing: Chrome is outdated every 12 weeks.

As a marketing ploy to move IT organizations that have applications demanding some version of IE, Google exacts brilliance. But the Legacy Browser Support add-on defies one of the major reasons many businesses prefer Internet Explorer: Stable releases for long periods.

In June 2011, Google came out all high and mighty with a startling lifecycle change, starting August 1 that year: Support for the two current browser versions only. Given that new stable Chrome builds arrive about every six weeks, the change was unprecedented, particularly for businesses used to adopting one Internet Explorer version for years.

“Why does Microsoft have such incredibly long support cycles?” my former colleague (but still one helluva guy) Larry Seltzer asked two years ago. “Because enterprises demand them. They want stability and predictability so that they can plan. It’s the exact opposite of the strategy chosen by Google”.

Cyrus Mistry, Google senior product manager, explains the loft-sided benefits: “When companies use browsers that are two or more versions old, employees and developers are unable to benefit from the incredible web innovations of the past four, or even ten years. Deploying a modern browser can help IT bolster security, reduce support costs, and improve browser speed and usability for employees”.

Right, but Chrome 24, which released in January, already is outdated. Meanwhile, the oldest-supported IE version released in 2009. Perhaps that’s a circumstance lost on Google, which sees opportunity getting these businesses on Chrome now while providing them lifeline to IE-dependent apps. Well, they best be running Google’s browser now, since current version 26 could be outdated by the time they test and deploy it.

Regarding the benefits, “with Legacy Browser Support, employees on Chrome are automatically switched to a legacy browser when they begin using an older app”, Mistry explains. “IT managers simply define which sites should launch from Chrome into an alternate browser, and then set this Chrome policy for all employees. And while Chrome Frame helps developers build apps for older browsers, Legacy Browser Support lets IT admins of organizations embrace the modern web”.

Well that does seem simple enough.

Besides the new legacy-browser-app-supporting extension, Google also released a tool to help business and educational users better define workspaces. One of the contextual cloud computing era‘s big benefits is access to personal or professional data and content anytime, anywhere and on anything. But the practice also encourages people to commingle behavior, data user experience. Google has a solution. Mistry explains:

We’re also introducing cloud-based management of Chrome for Google Apps for Business and Education customers. Now, whether employees are working from the company’s desktop or their personal laptop, they will be able to access default applications, custom themes, or a curated app web store when they sign-in to Chrome with their work account. With cloud-based management, IT administrators can customize more than 100 Chrome policies and preferences for their employees from the Google Admin panel.

Both new IT tools are contextual, just in different ways. Back to legacy browser support, perhaps Google defines up-to-date, presuming Chrome always is, differently than I do or many IT organizations. Your definition?

For some, mastering the art of the burnout is simple. You simply rev the engine to around 5k, dump the clutch and PRESTO! Tire smoke galore. However trying to perform a brake stand with in a car equipped with a manual transmission can be a bit tricky. Most of the time you simply side-step the clutch and you’re done. However do this incorrectly and shit can go wrong VERY quickly, a lesson that the owner of this late model Mustang found out as he was leaving a local car show. No joke, this is literally painful to watch…

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In what would be an inevitable push for the company building toward a TV-centric future, Twitter is reportedly in talks to add live video to its platform through deals with Viacom and NBC, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Such a move would make perfect sense considering Twitter’s current trajectory, as the company has worked to build up support for visual media and partnerships with companies in the television industry. Twitter has clearly realized that television and live broadcast events give the company a unique opportunity to harness online conversations happening at a particular moment and then serve up advertising based around those events. So while it’s unclear exactly what a Twitter/TV parternship would look like, it’s easy to see why Twitter would be interested.

Twitter has talked with Viacom (which owns MTV and Nickelodeon) about hosting video clips on the site along with advertising, as well ast NBC, the reports stated. But this wouldn’t be the first time Twitter has worked with television networks to host content to engage viewers — and more importantly for the company, advertise around that content.

A good example of what a Twitter/TV partnership might look like is the relationship it formed with Turner Broadcasting and a startup called SnappyTV back in March for the NCAA basketball tournament. Turner provided short highlight clips from the tournament, which were then edited through SnappyTV’s service and displayed on Twitter, which were presented along with ads paid for by AT&T and Coke Zero. The clips didn’t substitute for actually watching any of the games, but were fun to view and re-tweet for people using Twitter as a “second screen” device. And if you weren’t watching the games at all, perhaps a re-tweet of an exciting clip from a friend would encourage you to tune in.

Twitter officially declined to comment on the reports, but every indicator points to Twitter building up partnerships and advertising around TV. The company paired up with Nielsen in December to create a new rating to measure the social activity around particular television shows. In February Twitter also acquired Bluefin Labs, a company that works to understand how people are responding to television through social media, and updated its Cards technology to allow for tweets to display different kinds of visual media.

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