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5:55 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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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Settlement shutters ThinkSecret; EFF: it's for the best  —  A ripple was felt through the Mac community early this morning, as one of its oldest and best-known rumor sites announced that it would be closing its doors.  ThinkSecret announced that it had settled a three-year-old lawsuit with Apple …
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.”
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!
Discussion: p2pnet and Profy.Com
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:   Apple makes the messenger kill himself
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Nick Ciarelli, I Salute You For Your Guts and Stamina
Discussion: HipMojo.com 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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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.
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
Discussion: Technology Review
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 …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Blockbuster grinches Total Access customers with price hike  —  A handful of disgruntled (and in a couple of of cases, soon-to-be-ex-) Blockbuster customers wrote in this morning to point out that the video rental giant has hiked the prices for its Total Access mail order rental plan.
Discussion: Gadget Lab and Mashable!
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Mikek / Hacking NetFlix:
Blockbuster Raises Prices Again: 3-Out Unlimited Plan Now $34.99
Discussion: Gizmodo and ParisLemon
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 …
Market Wire:
Research In Motion Reports Third Quarter Results  —  Research In Motion Limited (RIM)(NasdaqGS:RIMM - News)(Toronto:RIM.TO - News), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported third quarter results for the three months ended December 1, 2007 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP).
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Who Will Be The First Tech President?  Help Us Endorse A Candidate  —  Our series of podcasts and interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates continue - so far we've spoken to Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel.  We are in active scheduling discussions with all of the remaining candidates.
MacNN:
Apple designs next generation iPod Boombox  —  A new patent filed by Apple describes a next generation digital device called the iPod Boombox, or simply the Boombox.  Proof of the Cupertino-based company's plans surfaced today in a patent published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting  —  It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues.  —  Screenshots relayed this week by two Reg readers say it better than we ever could.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Sexy Librarians of the Future Will Help You Upload Your Videos to YouTube  —  A new poll from Harris Interactive was released this morning, finding that US respondents are more excited about watching mainstream, commercial content like full length TV shows and movies online …
Discussion: Business Wire
 
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Charles Babcock / EE Times:
Irate Unix administrator admits trying to sabotage California power grid
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Todd Woody / Techland:
NetSuite's sweet IPO
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Customers Can Rock Out With The Guitar Hero III Mobile Game
Telegraph:
Drivers who use mobile phones face jail
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Downtime On the Upswing
InfoWorld:
IBM unveils ‘smart’ e-mail search engine
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
IEEE survey: Microsoft is software industry's leading innovator
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Cyber Crime 2.0  —  In 2007, Online Fraud Got More Targeted and Sophisticated
 Earlier Items: 
Business Wire:
Local.com Announces Strategic Relationship with Citysearch
Discussion: Kelsey Group Blogs and 901am
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
First In-Flight Calling Finally Launched by Air France
Michael Gartenberg / JupiterResearch:
CES and Macworld 2008
Reuters:
Microsoft signs rare open-source deal, under EU orders
Discussion: WinBeta
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
Social Media Can Lead To Better Companies
Chana R. Schoenberger / Forbes:
How To Make Friends, Japanese-Style
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Discontinues Inline Gadgets
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Vaporware 2007: Long Live the King
Discussion: Techdirt, Blue's News and Slashdot
 

 
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