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4:05 AM ET, December 8, 2007

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Associated Press:
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores  —  The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the holidays to get rid of inventory.  —  DALLAS (AP) — Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday it will close its stores after the holidays following sale of the company …
OSDir.com:
Rails 2.0  —  Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making.  This is a fantastic release that's absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish.  We've even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean.
Discussion: InfoWorld
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Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Ruby on Rails 2.0 released for Web apps  —  San Francisco - Version 2.0 of Ruby on Rails, the popular open source Web application development framework, was released this morning, said the developer of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, on Friday.  —  Key to this release is its reliance on REST …
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Louise Story / Bits:
Facebook Members Sell Their Own Ads  —  More than 1,500 Facebook users have started placing advertisements on their own profile pages-despite the social networking site's rule against such ads.  —  They are posting them with the help of a Montreal-based company called Weblo …
InfoWorld:
First Passport, now fraud: ex-MS employee charged  —  The former Microsoft employee associated with the company's notorious December 1999 Hotmail outage has been charged with fraud.  —  Carolyn Gudmundson was indicted Thursday on charges that she raked in more than $1 million during …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Kindling  —  When I started writing this column in the spring of 1997 Apple was on the skids.  It was the era of Gil Amelio, still several months before the return of Steve Jobs.  Apple's products were a confused mish-mash, with product planning coming more from CompUSA than from Cupertino.
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Who should Apple buy?  —  Just three days ago, American Technology Research upgraded projections for Apple for the holiday quarter, suggesting as many as 2.3 million Macs and 25 million iPods would be sold.  Today, AppleInsider has a research note from Andrew Neff of Bear Sterns suggesting Apple's inventory …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Verizon hit with GPL copyright lawsuit over router software  —  Open source software is very attractive for companies looking to expand their services or quickly get new offerings to market, in part because it's free.  Unfortunately, some companies tend to overlook the software license commonly attached …
Discussion: Engadget and Digg
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Venture Summit: Has the Internet Jumped the Shark?  —  So I moderated a panel yesterday at AlwaysOn's Venture Summit West, held at the Ritz Carlton at Half Moon Bay, Calif., with the title "Is There Still an Upside to the Internet?"  —  Of course, I redubbed it: "Has the Internet Jumped the Shark?"
Nick / Rough Type:
Sun guru foresees data center disaster in '08  —  One of the top engineers at Sun Microsystems this week predicted that a large data center would suffer a "massive failure" during the next twelve months, causing "major national effects," including possible "national security issues," …
Discussion: Storage Soup
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Novell, Red Hat and Gartner war with Facebook for PR flop award  —  Save the fear leader.  Save the hurled  —  Radio Reg Is there a PR professional decent enough to join the Open Season crew?  Like you, we thought "no." But, as it turns out, Lonn Johnston from Page One PR is all class and just as full of vitriol as the rest of us.
Discussion: The Open Road
PC World:
Hackers Launch Major Attack on US Military Labs  —  Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the U.S.' most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.  —  John E. Dunn, Techworld  —  Recommend this story?
The Boy Genius Report:
Windows Mobile 6.1 video walkthrough!  —  You waited, and waited for it, so we're finally bringing it to you!  Check out our hands-on video of Windows Mobile 6.1, where we take you through all the new features we've found so far.  In case you forgot them, we've got 'em below!
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Local Search Ads To $5 Billion In '08  —  Borrell Associates predicted a big gain in the overall local online ad market, with local search representing a big slice of the market share.  —  We'll tell the yellow pages firms and local papers why they are doomed in a moment.
Business Week:
Next-Gen DVDs: Advantage, Sony  —  Sony-led backers of Blu-ray seem to have pulled ahead of rivals in the race for a single high-def DVD standard  —  It's a fight with more plot twists and intrigue than a Hollywood thriller.  For two years now, rival camps have been battling over which new DVD format …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
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Patrick J. Lyons / The Lede:
Has Facebook Worn Out Its Welcome?
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Crapgadget: nano knockoff (with a camera), Millennium Falcon joystick, Fly Bar pogo
Discussion: Shiny Shiny, DVICE and The Raw Feed
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Missing product ruins Palm's Christmas
Alastair Taylor / The Sun:
My bird Billy is polly phonic
Discussion: Gizmodo and ringtonia.com
Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
UNICEF, OLPC, Google Start "Our Stories"
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL (TWX): Update on Next Week's Firings
Discussion: WebProNews
UMPCPortal feed.:
Shift by name, Shift by nature.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Gemstar-TV Guide Sold; Murdoch's Nightmare Over
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
Nintendo mulls pulling Wii TV ads
Discussion: CrunchGear and I4U News
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Firefox 3 beta goes portable
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Western Digital 1TB MyBook Drives Infested With DRM? [Peripherals]
Discussion: Bits, The Register and CrunchGear
Associated Press:
Syria blocks access to Facebook
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT
Discussion: BetaNews
Peggy Mihelich / CNN:
Commodore 64 still loved after all these years
Discussion: Techlog, DSLreports and Digg
Julie Kent / Search Engine Journal:
Research Firm Says Yahoo, MSN, & Google Have Major Page-Caching Flaw
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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