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3:05 PM ET, December 20, 2007

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Think Secret:
Apple, Think Secret settle lawsuit  —  PRESS RELEASE: Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides.  As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Apple Forces Rumors Site To Shut Down  —  For a few years now, there's been a legal battle going on between Apple and Think Secret, a very popular Apple rumors site for publishing certain rumors.  The lawsuit had many people up in arms, as they pointed out that Think Secret should be protected …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Oh My God!  Apple Killed Think Secret!  Those Bastards!  —  Apple and Apple blog Think Secret have settled their long running legal dispute over leaked Apple secrets, and under the deal Think Secret will cease operation.  —  According to a statement from ThinkSecret (via CrunchGear)
Discussion: Profy.Com and p2pnet
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Think Secret: Damn you, Steve Jobs  —  The Apple rumour site Think Secret has posted a note saying that it has reached a settlement with Apple over the lawsuit the computer company filed against it for leaking company secrets, and that it is “a positive solution for both sides.”
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple shuts down Think Secret?
Discussion: DailyTech and Gadget Lab
Federal Trade Commission:
Federal Trade Commission Closes Google/DoubleClick Investigation  —  Proposed Acquisition “Unlikely to Substantially Lessen Competition"  —  The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will not seek to block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Internet advertising …
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Reuters:
Yahoo in Huge Mobile Search Deal  —  Yahoo nets a 16-country Web services pact with America Movil.  —  NEW YORK (Reuters)—Internet company Yahoo and Latin America's top mobile phone company America Movil said on Thursday they have struck a deal to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Reality mining and your cell phone  —  If you'd like to know why companies like Google and Yahoo are so intent on gaining access to your mobile phone, take a look at the research on “reality mining” that's being undertaken by an MIT team led by Sandy Pentland.
Discussion: Technology Review
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
7 pictures of the Nokia N96 leak!  This isn't a render folks, this is real hardware  —  All 7 images can be found on my Flickr account here, the images came from Mobile Review.  Immediate thoughts are it looks like an N81, but even larger.  No specifications are known, but people say it is an N95 in a new shell.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Nokia's N96 spotted in the wild?
Mikek / Hacking NetFlix:
Blockbuster Raises Prices Again: 3-Out Unlimited Plan Now $34.99  —  Many readers wrote in to complain about the latest Blockbuster price increase, effective December 27th.  —  Some of the price increases were modest: $9.99 to $11.99, $14.99 to $16.99, $17.99 to $19.99, and even $21.99 to $29.99 …
Discussion: Gizmodo and ParisLemon
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Blockbuster grinches Total Access customers with price hike
Discussion: Gadget Lab
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Making sense of sharing video with iPod and iPhone  —  As the iPod evolved, so did its features for sharing pictures and video out via various ports.  With the introduction of the iPhone and iPod touch this year, Apple upped the ante with new capabilities, some requiring new accessories.
Discussion: PC World
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem  —  The furor surrounding the now infamous Bubble video (embedded above) is not over.  To recap: the parody video was watched more than one million times on YouTube, then taken down because photographer Lane Hartwell objected …
BBC:
BitTorrent search site loses case  —  A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case.  —  TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association of America.  —  A judge made a default ruling in favour …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and TECH.BLORGE.com
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
First In-Flight Calling Finally Launched by Air France  —  The first production in-flight mobile system is now airborne: After years of setting dates and pushing them back, OnAir has its first bird aloft.  The satellite-based mobile phone and data service is installed in a test mode on an Airbus 318 …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement  —  After being hounded by the IFPI since April 2006, Yahoo! China - partly owned by one the world's most prominent internet businesses, Yahoo! - today had its music search (via deep linking) deemed illegal by a Beijing Court …
Discussion: Techdirt and WinBeta
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Cyber Crime 2.0  —  In 2007, Online Fraud Got More Targeted and Sophisticated  —  The year 2007 may go down in the annals of Internet crime as the year when organized cyber criminals finally got serious about their marketing strategies — crafting cyber schemes that were significantly more sophisticated and stealthy.
 
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Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
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Business Wire:
Local.com Announces Strategic Relationship with Citysearch
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Michael Gartenberg / JupiterResearch:
CES and Macworld 2008
Greg Tarr / TWICE:
Sony Dumps Rear Projection TV
Reuters:
Microsoft signs rare open-source deal, under EU orders
Discussion: WinBeta
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Social Media Can Lead To Better Companies
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 Earlier Items: 
usdoj.gov:
MICROSOFT, GOOGLE AND YAHOO! PAY MILLIONS TO U.S. FOR THEIR PAST …
Chana R. Schoenberger / Forbes:
How To Make Friends, Japanese-Style
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Discontinues Inline Gadgets
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Trojan bumps Google ads from Web pages
Discussion: The Tech Report and eWEEK.com
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Vaporware 2007: Long Live the King
Discussion: Techdirt, Blue's News and Slashdot
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Nokia wins hearts, minds with breakthrough mobile
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Digital music: Go legal, get screwed
Bill Ray / The Register:
N95 struggles to find itself
Discussion: Mobilewhack and mocoNews.net
 

 
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