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12:30 PM ET, December 13, 2006

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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Skype 3.0 Goes Live, New Cheaper Disruptive Calling Plans Announced for USA  —  Skype users received an early holiday present, at least those in the USA and Canada, with a new year long pricing scheme that provides twelve months of unlimited calls from the USA and Canada to numbers in the USA …
USA Today:
Skype expands calling options  —  NEW YORK — Skype, which helped make free PC-to-PC calling a global phenomenon, will announce Wednesday a $29.95-a-year service offering unlimited calls to wireless and traditional landline phones.  —  Skype's Unlimited Calling subscription moves …
Scott Martin / Red Herring:
Yahoo Dethroned By MySpace  —  Fox Interactive Media, largely thanks to MySpace, has edged into No. 1 for Internet page views.  —  Yahoo is getting good at being No. 2.  News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media has now edged the search giant out of its long-held perch at the top position for Internet page views.
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
ComScore: MySpace tops Yahoo in November  —  NEW YORK — The online hangout MySpace got even more popular in November, beating Yahoo (YHOO) in Web traffic for the first time, a research company said Tuesday.  —  News Corp.'s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views last month …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Is MySpace Now the the Biggest?  —  There's no offical comScore release …
Discussion: ClickZ News Blog
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
When Numbers Mean Anything And Nothing: iTunes Sales; FIM-YHOO
BBC:
Apple denies download sales fall  —  Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006.  —  Research group Forrester said it was too soon to say whether its findings showed that buyers were "reaching their saturation level for digital music".
Discussion: Techdirt, Gizmodo and Macsimum News
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Apple ITunes Sales Slid in First Half, Forrester Says (Update4)  —  Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music store suffered a 65 percent slump in sales during the first six months of the year, reversing almost two years of gains, according to a Forrester Research Inc. report.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google unveils unorthodox stock option auction  —  Google plans to start an unorthodox stock options program in April that will allow employees to sell their vested options in an online auction, the search giant announced late Tuesday.  —  Traditionally, employees have two ways to deal with stock options …
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Karl / Techdirt:
People Slowly Notice Second Life Hype And Actual Users Aren't To Scale  —  from the foamy-mouthed-adoration dept  —  The on-line virtual world of Second Life has long been a mainstream technology media darling, thanks in large part to their public relations team, who masterfully convince reporters …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Answers Birthday: One Year Old  —  Yahoo Answers, arguably one of Yahoo's most successful products of the year, has turned one today.  Yahoo has listed The Best of Answers 2006 showing off some of the best user generated questions and answers for the year.  You can get a free gift from Yahoo for their birthday over here.
Discussion: Heather Hopkins
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Gareth Jones Marketing / brandrepublic.com:   Yahoo! hunts brand licensees for Answers service
Sprint:
Sprint Powers Up Faster Mobile Broadband Network in 10 More Markets, Upgraded Coverage Reaches 60 Million People  —  Users in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Detroit, Denver, Baltimore, Providence and New Jersey now have the power of significantly faster upload speeds …
Annie Sullivan / Official Google Blog:
Nifty Toolbar upgrades for Firefox  —  Ever since the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE came out, Firefox users have been asking when they'll see the same new features in their favorite browser.  Well, we've been hard at work on a new version of the Toolbar for Firefox …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
More Journalists Join Political News Venture  —  Mike Allen, a reporter who covers the White House for Time magazine, and Roger Simon, the chief political correspondent for Bloomberg News, are joining the new multimedia political news venture being overseen by two former Washington Post journalists.
Discussion: PaidContent
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A first look at Firefox 3.0  —  Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0.  Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which leverages the open-source Cairo rendering framework and features heavily refactored reflow algorithms …
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Craig and Wall Street — universes apart  —  It was a few days ago now, but the New York Times' DealBook blog had a great little item about Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster meeting with Wall Street types at the UBS global media conference.  Naturally, the analysts wanted to hear a bit …
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Legs everywhere rejoice as dog humps USB port silly  —  The outrage — how could they?  One of those USB ports in the video is clearly exposed for the world and his wife to ogle.  Filth.  —  Fume over here for the Animal Farm muck in living color.  —  Shock and horror aside …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Rex Hammock's weblog
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta to drop this friday  —  Exclusive: Adobe Systems Inc. on friday will make available for download an early public beta of its next-generation graphics editor, Photoshop CS3, but will otherwise abstain from delivering pre-release copies of other Creative Suite 3.0 applications.
Discussion: Apple Gazette and digg
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Iniquities of the Selfish  —  On Monday, MacHeist1 released the software bundle at the heart of their promotion, under the guise of "The Week of the Independent Mac Developer": … First, there's something silly about calling these apps "hidden gems" in one paragraph …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Search 2.0 - What's Next?  —  Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus  —  You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN.  Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half of the 1990's.
Discussion: Don Dodge on The Next … and digg
 
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Microsoft unveils public robotics software
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Search Marketing Platform Opens Online Sign-up for New Customers
Discussion: PaidContent
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
WHAT WOULD RADICAL TRANSPARENCY MEAN FOR WIRED? (PART 2)
Heather Champ / FlickrBlog:
Ho ho ho! Flickr Gifts and Upload Limit Changes
New York Times:
Family With Big Stake Seeks Part of Tribune
Google Blogoscoped:
Does Google Allow Cloaking When They Like the Site?
Discussion: digg
Allen Salkin / New York Times:
Web Site Hunts Pedophiles, and TV Goes Along
Discussion: Kevin Maney
Chris Pirillo:
A Tablet PC Wedding
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube.tv, anyone?  —  Will the rise of online video spark …
Zach's Journal:
google's own cornershop
newsroom.ucla.edu:
UCLA Warns of Unauthorized Access to Restricted Database
Hilary Goldstein / IGN:
Halo 3 Beta Signup Success
Discussion: Opposable Thumbs, You NEWB and digg
Forbes:
Mac Envy  —  Are Apple computers better than Windows PCs?
Janus Friis:
Venice is live (sort of)...
Discussion: Lost Remote and GigaOM
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Out the social news scammers (and take a C note off the table)
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple:
Who Says Macs Aren't Used In Businesses?