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7:40 AM ET, December 7, 2007

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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Apple Future Headline: New Products Including Super Laptop?  —  A very good source of mine with good connections to Apple's  —  [AAPL Loading...  (%) ] Asian manufacturing partners called me this morning with some news: Seems like Apple will be making headlines in the next few weeks …
Discussion: Mark Evans, CNET News.com and Gizmodo
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Will new Blog Council help big companies get small conversations?
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Free in-flight Wi-Fi on JetBlue with a catch, of course  —  This isn't exactly what we expected in terms of in-flight Wi-Fi, but beggars can't be choosers and something is better than nothing.  JetBlue, Yahoo! and RIM have announced free in-flight Wi-Fi services starting on the 11th of this month.
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bookofjoe:
Amazon Kindle a Fraud?  —  That's essentially what bookofjoe reader Steve Saroff contends.  —  Below is his comment, received last night at 10:40:12 p.m., on my recent "Kindle Blogs" post.  —  Personally, I believe Steve's letting Amazon off the hook far too easily: how about a no-questions …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Mashable! and Tech_Space
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
A note to Nancy Pelosi regarding the PRO IP act  —  This morning I read about Chairman Conyers' proposed PRO IP act, and as others in the technology industry have, I lowered my head sadly.  While I only recently became an American citizen, it seems quite clear to me that this is yet another sad sign …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Edgeio To Shut Down - In The DeadPool  —  Edgeio, a company I co-founded in 2005, had a final board meeting this evening and made the decision to shut down operations of the company.  We are putting it into the TechCrunch DeadPool.  —  Edgieo first launched in February 2006 after a beta period.
Discussion: The Last Podcast
Google Code Blog:
Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet  —  Today we're launching the Google Chart API, a really simple tool for creating charts and graphs that are perfect for websites.  —  Let's get straight in with an example.  This URL:  —  http://chart.apis.google.com/ chart?
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Releases Chart Image Generator
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Beacon Inflating Facebook's Visitor Numbers?  —  While Facebook's Beacon program has been drawing the ire of many people because of the privacy issues surrounding it, advertisers might be equally concerned about whether Beacon is inflating Facebook's overall visitor and traffic numbers.
David Pogue / New York Times:
The Dr. Seuss Jumble: Naming Web Sites  —  Could it possibly be true?  Has all wit and cleverness already dried up in the naming of Web sites, less than 15 years after the Internet was opened to the public?  —  In the beginning, Web sites announced their own names.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
SmugMug Automatically Scales Photos and Video, Supports High Definition Video  —  SmugMug has released a set of new features that further cements itself as a first-rate photo sharing website.  —  The first of these constitutes just a user interface upgrade, but a very attractive one at that.
Benny Goldman / Gizmodo:
Jajah Gives iPhone International Callers a VoIP Alternative [VoIP]  —  VoIP provider Jajah has released a web app today that helps you make international calls on an iPhone without going totally broke.  The Jajah web app looks like the iPhone's dial pad, and like the iPhone it uses an address book to store contacts.
Libby Purves / Times of London:
Hackers force mass website closures  —  Hundreds of websites have been shut down temporarily by one of the largest web hosting companies in Britain after the personal details of customers were stolen by computer hackers.  —  The hackers managed to access the "master database" …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
Jane Wakefield / BBC:
Sign of the times  —  As broadband speeds get faster and the appetite for video services grows apace, bandwidth becomes an ever more precious commodity.  —  Already people are seeing the amount of bandwidth they can use limited by monthly caps and, in the US, operators have just won the right …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
There's One Thing That Can Slow Apple's iPhone Growth  —  As I start to look at getting a mobile device, I have watched the pros and cons for each with great interest.  Today was the coldest day of the year in NYC so far — with the windchill -4C.  Will we see a slowdown in Apple (AAPL) iPhone growth during the winter months?
Discussion: It's Rishi
 
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Murdoch Said to Have Plan for Shake-Up at Dow Jones
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Best Windows Error Ever May Rip Time-Space Continuum, Destroy Reality …
Discussion: blog.pmarca.com, Tech Blog and Digg
Alistair Coleman / BBC:
Students 'should use Wikipedia'
Federal Trade Commission:
Adult-Oriented Online Social Networking Operation Settles FTC …
Discussion: The Register and InfoWorld
Om Malik / GigaOM:
EchoStar Now DISH Network Spins Off SlingBox, Set-Top Biz
Discussion: Engadget
Tanya Irwin / MediaPost Publications:
Downloading Videos On The Rise Among High-Speed Internet Users
Discussion: last100, GigaOM and NewTeeVee
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
SAFE Act won't turn mom-and-pop shops into WiFi cops
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Quicksilver's Creator on the Future of QS [Exclusive Lifehacker Interview]
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Seagate buys document analysis firm
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Meebo + Platform + VideoEgg Ads Suddenly Makes Business Sense
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Start-up creates flexible sheets of light
Discussion: Gizmodo
Andrew Farrell / Forbes:
Consumers Crave Apple's Macs
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
OpenSocial Still "Not Open for Business"
Discussion: FactoryCity and All Facebook
Nick / Rough Type:
Through the Kindle window
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple Store 14th Street press preview
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition

Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Matt Cooper / University of Oregon:
A group of researchers say Twitch is increasingly becoming a news source, and traditional news outlets could use it for added income and audience engagement

 
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