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12:55 PM ET, December 26, 2007

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Felipe Hoffa / Felipe Hoffa's Journal:
Google Reader shares private data, ruins Christmas  —  Update 2007-12-25: Got posted to /. homepage.  The discussion continues there.  —  Update 2007-12-26: Reactions from Scoble, Mashable, ParisLemon, more.  —  As each day Google hoards more of your data there is an implicit deal …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Reader needs GPC  —  Oh, man, is the Google Reader team under attack for its new social networking features.  —  There's a few ways I could take this.  —  1. I could call people idiots for not understanding the meaning of the word “public."  —  2. I could call the Google Reader team idiots …
Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10.  On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Mac Os / PC World:
Apple's Record Breaking Year  —  Year in review: Apple started 2007 with a name change, and proceeded to firmly establish itself as a consumer electronics company.  —  Karen Haslam, Macworld UK  —  Recommend this story?  —  In January 2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that his company …
CNN:
Nokia says door open for cooperation with Apple on web portal Ovi - Vanjoki  —  Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) doors are open for Apple Inc to sell its music via the company's planned Ovi web portal, management board member Anssi Vanjoki told Berliner Zeitung.
Discussion: Electronista and Macsimum News
Daimaou / Akihabaranews.com:
New wooden earphones from JVC  —  Rate this News:  —  Looking for a fancy yet very high quality earphone?  Take a look at this wooden version from JVC dubbed the HP-FX500.  —  JVC says that the use of wood offers enhanced audio quality and the weight of 7.5 grams is pretty nice too.
P2P Blog:
IFPI wants ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, filter P2P traffic  —  The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) wants European ISPs to build the copyright equivalent to the Chinese firewall, and its counting on the help of European lawmakers to achieve this goal.
Discussion: TorrentFreak and DSLreports
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay: Torrents and Peers Double in 2007
Discussion: Digg
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
What Would Paul Allen Do With Spectrum?  Who Knows!  —  Among the applicants to bid in next month's FCC wireless spectrum auction: Vulcan Spectrum LLC, a firm controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.  Allen already owns some 700 megahertz spectrum — the same flavor being auctioned off next year — in Washington and Oregon.
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Maggie Reardon / CNET News.com:
Apple and Google, telecom's new stars
Discussion: ParisLemon and Slashdot
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining:
IceRocket Relaunch?  —  I'm sure I'm very late in noticing this, but just after I saw Technorati's relaunch as a memetracker, I noticed that IceRocket is starting to look different, with a new (to me) looking front page, ranked video, movies and news.  According to Compete …
Reuters:
Russia launches final satellites for its own GPS  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS.  —  The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected …
Tamar Weinberg / techipedia:
Internet Marketing Best Blog Posts of 2007  —  Last year, I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing.  This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007 …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First look: Qt 4.4.0 with Phonon and WebKit  —  Trolltech has released the Qt 4.4.0 technical preview, a pre-release that allows software developers to begin experimenting with the new features that the company has implemented for the next version.  Qt is an open source development toolkit …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too  —  Earlier this year we wrote about Gaboogie, a web-based conference call service started by Erik Lagerway.  The service didn't quite work out, and the company reconfigured its business focus to offering instant group calls from mobiles, and is now called Lypp.
Discussion: WeBreakStuff
Peter Sciretta / /Film:
Cool Stuff: Batcave Home Theater  —  Last month we featured a custom home theater designed to model the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation.  We return in December to show you the home theater set-up of a retired naturalist who thought that her cellar would be a great Batcave.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Slashdot and Digg
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
HTC denies that operations in 1Q08 will be affected by Qualcomm chipset shortages  —  High Tech Computer (HTC) on December 24 rebuked a media report stating that company revenues for the first quarter of 2008 would be affected by shortages in the supply of chipsets from Qualcomm.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and IntoMobile
 
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
ModBook- soon to leave vaporware status?
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Laptop project enlivens Peruvian hamlet
Discussion: TechSpot News and Digg
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
CTO Session: Nortel's Roese Speaks Out
Discussion: All About Nortel
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Christmas lights synced with Guitar Hero axe
Stewart Maclean / Mirror.co.uk:
Worker runs up £27k mobile bill
 Earlier Items: 
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
HoHoHo: Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank
Discussion: Mashable!
Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
iPhone take-up the key as O2 targets Europe
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Send email attachments up to 5GB with AOL's Xdrive
Discussion: ParisLemon and Mashable!
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Quiet year for tech on Capitol Hill
Mark Walsh / MediaPost Publications:
Consumers Who Watch TV Online More Engaged Than TV-Set Watchers, Simmons Finds
Discussion: Podcasting News and TechCrunch
 

 
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