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• In Pictures: Top photo and video gift ideas for Holiday 2013

  Check out these devices and gift ideas.

• Instagram, finally, debuts on Windows phones

  Instagram is now available for Windows phones, some three years after the photo-sharing app's launch, the company announced Wednesday.

• YouTube returns after a short, widely seen outage

  A brief YouTube outage on Monday was the one of the biggest recent glitches for the popular video site, according to a company that uses complaints on Twitter and other sources to measure the impact of online outages.

• When it comes to driving, Google may not be OK with Glass

  Google has acknowledged that the best time to be on your computer might not be while you're driving.

• China's Baidu faces lawsuit from rivals, MPAA over video piracy

  Chinese search giant Baidu is facing a chorus of complaints for allegedly stealing online video content from rivals, resulting in a 300 million yuan (US$48.9 million) lawsuit against the Internet company.

• Netflix, YouTube traffic on the rise, while peer-to-peer file sharing nears extinction, Sandvine finds

  In a testament to the rise of on-demand entertainment, Netflix and YouTube now consume just over half of all downstream traffic in North America, while peer-to-peer file-sharing services continue to plummet, according to a new study.

• YouTube cleans up its comments with help from Google+

  YouTube is overhauling comments on videos to highlight the ones that actually mean something to viewers, the site said Wednesday.

• Instagram wants to use photos to keep people informed about world events

  Although Instagram users do not commonly turn to the site to find out what's happening in the world, CEO Kevin Systrom hopes that will change.

• The first ad debuts on Instagram, courtesy of Michael Kors

  It's official: Instagram now has ads, and the first one appeared Friday courtesy of fashion designer Michael Kors.

• Cisco to release free standard software to boost Web videoconferencing

  Web videoconferencing may get easier after a decision by Cisco Systems that should help bring widely used technology into browsers.

• Twitter gets more visual with photo, video previews

  Twitter became an Internet phenomenon as a tool for posting short text messages, but now it also wants to feature multimedia content more prominently.

• Twitter hires NBC's Vivian Schiller to boost its news cred

  Twitter has hired a top digital executive at NBC News, Vivian Schiller, to help boost its partnerships with news organizations.

• Vine mimes Instagram with new editing features

  Twitter's Vine video sharing app and Instagram now share a useful feature: editing.

• More than 40 percent of YouTube traffic is now from mobile

  YouTube's presence on mobile devices has exploded in the past couple of years, Google said on Thursday.

• Isohunt.com to shut down in settlement with movie studios

  BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com will shut down operations next week in a settlement with U.S. movie studios that have long accused the website of copyright infringement, the studios said Thursday.