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5:00 PM ET, December 6, 2007

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USA Today:
AT&T flings cellphone network wide open  —  NEW YORK — Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker — think smartphones, e-mail and music downloading.  And they don't have to sign a contract.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
AT&T Does Nothing, Convinces Reporter It Has Now 'Opened' Its Network  —  When Verizon Wireless announced last month its plans to "open" its network some people noticed very quickly that what Verizon Wireless was announcing didn't sound any different from what GSM operators, like AT&T and T-Mobile already had.
Discussion: Joe Duck and The Last Podcast
Ryan Block / Engadget:
AT&T claims completely open network, too — "the most open," even!
Discussion: Computerworld
Om Malik / GigaOM:   AT&T, Verizon...We Are All Open  —  Ever since Verizon announced …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple sub-notebook to retail for $1500, 3G iPhone by June - report  —  In a just-aired broadcast on CNBC, the network's Jim Goldman reported that a source close to Apple's manufacturing facilities has confirmed that the company will launch its much rumored sub-notebook at Macworld in January …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget, CrunchGear and ParisLemon
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Dell to sell PCs at Best Buy  —  Beginning in the next few weeks, Dell notebooks and desktops will be for sale at Best Buy, the companies announced Thursday.  —  Several models of XPS and Inspiron PCs will be available at 900 Best Buy locations, including the XPS M1330 in white …
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Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:   Dell and Best Buy Forge New Retail Alliance
Electronista:
iPhone 1.1.3 to bring voice capture, disk mode?  —  Apple may be preparing a significant update for the iPhone as early as this weekend that will have some heavily requested features, according to a claim from CNET France.  The site points to multiple reports that a 1.1.3 upgrade for the iPhone …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact.  —  Dear Facebook: Thank You.  Thank You.  Thank You.  —  In August Facebook opened up their messaging system to allow people to add normal email addresses.  I wrote a post praising the change, but I specifically asked for more:
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2007  —  Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 6, 2007  —  Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 11, 2007  —  This is an advance notification of seven security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on December 11, 2007.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Releases Chart Image Generator  —  Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API.  Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added)  —  http://chart.apis.google.com/ chart?  cht=
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Google Code Blog:
Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet
Discussion: Ajaxian
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites  —  The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings—or face fines of up to $300,000.
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George Ou:   We need to calm down over the SAFE act
Nancy Gohring / PC World:
Microsoft to Try Windows XP Out on OLPC in January  —  Microsoft field trials of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop will take place next month.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Microsoft said it plans to conduct field trials in January of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop.
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BBC:
Microsoft trials XP on XO laptop
Discussion: CrunchGear, p2pnet and Inside UP
InfoWorld:
IBM researchers build supercomputer-on-a-chip  —  San Francisco - Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster.
Kevin Allison / Financial Times:
Apple's rising popularity lures hackers  —  After years of relative safety, the Apple Mac is becoming an increasingly tempting target for malicious computer hackers, according to a new report published this week.  —  Security researchers have been aware of the threat to Apple since last year …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Mobile Updater for Blackberry  —  Google Mobile Updater.  What could that be?  After all, Google doesn't have too many mobile apps.  Maybe there's some connection with the desktop updater included in Google Pack.  Let's see.  —  "Google Mobile Updater is a free download …
Discussion: eWEEK.com, WebProNews and Mashable!
Tom Simonite / New Scientist:
Flexible-jointed robot is no pushover  —  If robots are going to work alongside humans, then they will need to stand up to accidental bumps and shoves, not to mention the occasional deliberate kick.  —  That is why researchers in Japan have developed software that allows a life-size humanoid robot …
Discussion: DVICE, The Raw Feed and Slashdot
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Small New Features Make Gmail Better  —  It seems that Gmail 2.0 is all about small new features.  There may be small, but you'll find plenty of minor updates and there are more to come.  —  Contact tooltips  —  The tooltip that showed up when you hovered over the name of a contact …
Discussion: Lifehacker, CyberNet and Mark Evans
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple Store 14th Street press preview  —  We got a chance to preview the new Manhattan Apple Store this morning before the official unveiling tomorrow at 6PM.  The store is nicely situated on W. 14th St. and 9th Ave., and while Apple did its best to blend into the existing early 20th century architecture …
Discussion: Apple 2.0, Gizmodo and CNET News.com
J.A. Watson / ZDNet:
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?  —  I am writing this as a follow-up to yesterday's Tech Talk about Skype.  I mentioned this issue then, and I have received a number of requests for additional information about it.  There have been some new developments today, as well.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Major copyright bill boosts penalties, creates new agency  —  In the aftermath of the $222,000 jury verdict that the Recording Industry Association of America recently won against a Minnesota woman who shared 24 songs on Kazaa, the U.S. Congress is preparing to amend copyright law.
Discussion: NewTeeVee, TorrentFreak and Techdirt
 
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Xbox 360 DVD Player Still Sucks After Update, HD DVD Not Great Either [Xbox 360]
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Google Lunar X Prize's race to the moon has begun
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Free in-flight Wi-Fi on JetBlue with a catch, of course
Discussion: WebProNews and Gizmodo
Business Wire:
Sharp Introduces 2nd Generation Full HD 1080p AQUOS® LCD TV Optimized for Gaming
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
EBAY: Time For CEO Meg Whitman to Go?
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Nick / Rough Type:
Through the Kindle window
Johnnie L. Roberts / Newsweek:
Shakeup at Dow Jones
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft releases final version of HD Photo plug-in for Photoshop
 Earlier Items: 
One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft gears up for the biggest enterprise launch in its history
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Turns On Its Own News Feeds (in Beta)
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
YouTube users prefer lousy science over the real deal
Cade Metz / The Register:
French high court thumps Google Video
Discussion: Techdirt and Mashable!
Bobby White / Wall Street Journal:
Watching What You See on the Web  —  New Gear Lets ISPs Track
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Sony finally gets it right with the latest PS3 commercial
Discussion: Gizmodo
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
SourceForge Opens Online Marketplace
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