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5:40 PM ET, December 18, 2007

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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Majority Of Americans On Google Docs: "What You Talkin Bout Willis?"  —  A new survey by NPD has found that the 73% of Americans have never heard of Google Docs and other online office applications, but perhaps worst still only 0.5% of respondents have abandoned desktop office applications for an online alternative.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google may have finally figured out what to do with Google Apps  —  Om writes that Google has inked a deal with satellite ISP, WildBlue, that puts Google's "Office Suite" in the hands of average users — the right place for it.  There are many reasons Google Apps works much better for personal use …
Discussion: WebProNews and WildBlue
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite
Om Malik / GigaOM:   Google Taking Apps In The Sky
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit  —  In a potentially severe blow to fans of peer-to-peer networks, a federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com on grounds that its operators engaged in "willful" deletion of important evidence.
Discussion: TorrentFreak and Ars Technica
George Ou / Zero Day:
Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007  —  The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).  But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems …
Discussion: CyberNet and Micronet's blog
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
Q&A: Peter Norvig  —  The evolution of Web search.  —  As director of research at Google, Peter Norvig is intimately involved in the attempt to manage the world's information.  He's a good match for the job, having spent much of his life thinking about how computers think and making them do it more efficiently.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Inside iPod Touch  —  The Touch will probably set the standard for iPod iterations to come, and our teardown reveals it's more than just an iPhone you can't make calls on  —  At first glance, Apple's iPod Touch looks almost exactly like its sibling the iPhone.
John Tierney / New York Times:
Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine  —  At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Donald Norman was previewing a scene about to be re-enacted in living rooms around the world.  —  He was playing with one of this year's hot Christmas gifts, a digital photo frame from Kodak.
Discussion: Smart Mobs and Gawker
Google News Blog:
New Advanced News search  —  Want to find articles from a specific news source?  You may not know of some tricks to make Google News do the work for you.  —  Try using our site operator along with a keyword, like this: [site:iht.com Paris].  Or you can also use our advanced news search page.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Introducing Video Sitemaps  —  In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Meets with DoCoMo, Softbank On Launching iPhone in Japan  —  After signing deals with U.S. and European operators to sell its iPhone earlier this year, Apple Inc. now is making plans to enter Japan, one of the biggest and most sophisticated mobile-phone markets in the world.
Clint Boulton / eWEEK.com:
Visualize Social Networks with IBM's Atlas  —  New relationship visualization tools ratchet up IBM's social networking push for the enterprise.  —  Determined to lead the market in creating social networking tools for the enterprise, IBM introduced a new set of social networking visualization and analysis tools for businesses.
Associated Press:
Facebook settles text-messaging suit  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Pressured by a lawsuit, Internet social network Facebook Inc. will adopt new measures to prevent its 58 million members from sending text messages to recycled cell phone numbers.  —  The settlement was announced Tuesday by attorneys …
Discussion: mocoNews.net
InfoWorld:
Microprocessor giants settle with Patriot Scientific  —  Patriot Scientific and TPL Group, co-holders of the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio [MMPP], announced today that they have settled their suit for patent infringement with JVC, NEC Electronics, Panasonic, and Toshiba.
Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog:
Follow your Favorite Freeway  —  Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, us insiders know that the difference between Hwy 101 and Hwy 280 is like the difference between the mall ring-road on the Saturday before Christmas and the Autobahn.  Some of us will go through some awfully long detours …
Discussion: Screenwerk and Search Engine Land
 
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Staska / Unwired View:
TOSHIBA PORTEGE SMARTPHONE ROADMAP FOR 2008 TURNS UP
Discussion: CrunchGear, Ubergizmo and Engadget
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Pumping DC power to the data center
Discussion: Xconomy
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Facebook Faces Off Against Sex Site
Discussion: DailyTech, Digital Trends and 901am
Xoanon / Hobbit Movie News and Rumors:
PETER JACKSON AND NEW LINE CINEMA JOIN WITH MGM TO PRODUCE "THE HOBBIT"
PC World:
Apple TV Leads Internet Video Delivery Market
Discussion: WebProNews
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
How much online video advertising costs
Tom Lee / Techdirt:
The Language Indicator: If You Want To Stay On Top Of Technology …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Privacy groups ramp up Google-DoubleClick attacks
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Ex-Jane Editor Lands at Yahoo
USA Today:
'Guitar Hero,' 'Rock Band' strum up big sales
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Matt / Signal vs. Noise:
Ask 37signals: 10 ways to "get ink"
Louis Hau / Forbes:
McClatchy's Fall From Grace
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Amazon partners with fans' online record label
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Don't DVR Owners Skip Commercials?
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Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...
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The Depth of EBay's Problems 2: Angry Sellers
 

 
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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”

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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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