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it's Friday December 14 2012 I'm Alice hamburger this is 90 seconds on the bridge part 1 of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy is now in theaters the first film subtitled an unexpected journey has so far received mixed reviews critics generally agreed if a movie is gorgeous and the performance is strong but the length and overall pacing seem to hurt the story The Hobbit is the first major film to be shown in theaters at 48 frames per second at least for some theaters and the reaction is fully mixed our own brian bishop likened it to watching a live-action video game still we're pretty excited to watch it in fact there's actually a pretty good chance I'm in the theater right now Google is dropping support for exchange activesync for gmail contacts and calendars this means there's no longer one way to connect your iPhone to all Google services the company will continue to support imap for email caldav for calendars and carddav for contacts but Google would probably prefer you just use its own gmail app existing users can continue to use google sync for the known future but new signups close on january thirtieth finally the US has blocked a United Nations treaty over fear of internet regulation move isn't surprising an ambassador said the US was fighting to maintain a quote open Internet joined by 20 other countries and refusing to sign the treaty including Canada and the United Kingdom the world conference on international telecommunications wraps up today there's very clearly still no consensus on who should control the world wide web and that's it for today's tech stories tune in tomorrow and take care of this weekend