BetterWorks is a company that is currently in stealth mode. BetterWorks plans on allowing “business owners to create rewarding work environments quickly, easily and affordably.” What makes BetterWorks interesting is the team that co-founded the company.

The hype around mobile photo editing and blogging services Instagram has overshadowed Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) subsidiary Flickr.com. Instagram hit 3 million mobile users in less than 3 months. One of the biggest reasons why Yahoo! let these two services surpass Flickr on mobile devices is because of “Innovator’s dilemma” according to Kellan Elliott-McCrea. Kellan was a former Architect at Flickr, but now he works as the VP of Engineering at Etsy.

Ross Anderson of the Security Research team at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab has written a blog post about how the university refused to take a research paper written by Omar Choudary offline. Choudary’s paper pointed out a flaw in the chip-and-PIN system in ATMs. Below is a letter that Anderson sent to the UK banking trade association:

After WikiLeaks uploaded a massive amount of confidential government cable documents, there was some confusion about how to handle the support of the website’s operations. WikiLeaks was hit with a DDoS attack so they moved their website to Amazon.com’s cloud. Amazon.com kicked out WikiLeaks from their servers and then the banks started to freeze the and shut down the WikiLeaks accounts.

AllThingsD.com co-founder Walt Mossberg has named the Apple iPad the best reviewed device of the year. This does not surprise me because I think Mossberg comes off as a huge Apple fan. He said that Apple has taken a leap “into a new kind of device. There have been many tablets in the past, but not tablets like this that are multi touch control, and have their own body of apps.” Mossberg named high-speed 4G networks in the U.S. as the second best reviewed product for 2010. He named the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy Tab in a tie for third place. The worst reviewed products are the Dell Streak, Google TV, and the TiVo Premiere. [Mossblog]

Fortune’s Seth Weintraub has written a lengthy article about how 2011 will be an explosive year for the Android operating system.  He also pointed out that about 269.9 million smartphones were sold this year compared to the 173.5 million shipped in 2009.  In 2011 we could see a shipment of about 500 million smartphones across the world.  I’ve pulled up a couple of charts from previous reports I have written about in regards to smartphone market share to make a prediction myself.  The chart in the top left is Smartphone Market Share from Q1 2010 by Nielsen (Exhibit A).  The second chart is smartphone OS mix Q3 2010 put together by Millenial Media, a mobile advertising analytics company (Exhibit B).

Mobile company HTC said that they believe that they will be able to eventually be able to import the Sense user interface into the Windows Phone 7 operating system according to HTC head of User Experience Drew Bamford. “We have a good relationship with Microsoft so we’re continuing to work with them to figure out how to enable a Sense experience without breaking their model,” said Bamford in an interview with Forbes. “Our expectation is that we will be able to do more over time.” [Forbes]

Zynga has just beat their own record with the launch of CityVille. CityVille has beat FarmVille as the world’s biggest game. And it only took 22 days. CityVille has 61.7 million monthly active users and FarmVille has 56.8 million. Zynga’s total traffic on Facebook is now 261.6 million monthly active users. As of this past November, Zynga was hitting about 198 million monthly active users.