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3:50 AM ET, December 26, 2007

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Felipe Hoffa / Felipe Hoffa's Journal:
Google Reader shares private data, ruins Christmas  —  Update: Got posted to /. homepage.  The discussion continues there.  —  As each day Google hoards more of your data there is an implicit deal that makes this possible: You give Google your private data, while they keep it private.
Discussion: Scobleizer, Mashable! and ParisLemon
Maggie Reardon / CNET News.com:
Apple and Google, telecom's new stars  —  It was Apple and Google—not the traditional phone companies AT&T and Verizon Communications—that took center stage in the telephony market in 2007.  —  In January, Apple announced the iPhone and named AT&T its exclusive carrier in the U.S. For almost six months …
Discussion: ParisLemon and Slashdot
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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.
Discussion: FCC and Wall Street Journal
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Facebook is so last year - welcome to the hit websites of 2008  —  Virtual pets, video diaries and travellers' logs could be the next stars of cyberspace  —  For many in the dotcom world, 2007 was dominated by one story: the rise of Facebook.  The success of the social networking service …
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 …
Stewart Maclean / Mirror.co.uk:
Worker runs up £27k mobile bill  —  EXCLUSIVE: Factory worker runs up £27,000 mobile bill in a month  —  It's good to talk... unless you fail to read the smallprint on your new mobile phone contract and end up with a bill for £27,322.  —  Ian Simpson, 29 …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay: Torrents and Peers Double in 2007  —  The Pirate Bay now tracks nearly 1 million torrents and over 8 million peers at any given point in time.  This is quite a change compared to last year, and there is no sign that this trend will stop anytime soon.  —  December 2006
Discussion: Digg
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
HoHoHo: Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank  —  Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well.  —  A sort of translation of what Techtear is saying
Discussion: Mashable!
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Send email attachments up to 5GB with AOL's Xdrive  —  While most web-based email services have file attachment size limits, there are plenty of ways around those limitations.  MailBigFile, YouSendIt, Driveway, and other services all let you “park” large files temporarily online and send …
Discussion: ParisLemon and Mashable!
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
A focused family business  —  Picture this: an online photo-sharing site with a loyal customer base and no corporate ties run by a close-knit clan out of Silicon Valley.  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Ever the proud father, Chris MacAskill screens 20-year-old home movies of his sons …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Christmas lights synced with Guitar Hero axe  —  While we already knew Sony's mysterious Rolly got down to holiday tunes, this installation managed to capture our attention just a wee bit more.  Rivaled only by the famed TSO project from 2005, this guitar-controlled setup transforms …
Discussion: The Register, Go Nintendo, Slashdot and Digg
Mark Walsh / MediaPost Publications:
Consumers Who Watch TV Online More Engaged Than TV-Set Watchers, Simmons Finds  —  CONSUMERS ARE 47% MORE ENGAGED in ads that run with television programs that they view online than those watched on a TV set, according to new research findings.  —  A cross-media study by Simmons …
Discussion: Podcasting News and TechCrunch
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Best Buy Still Using Secret In-Store Website With Higher Pricing  —  Even after being slapped in the face with a suit by a Connecticut attorney general, Best Buy is still having an internal bestbuy.com website that offers higher prices than the actual bestbuy.com.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
2008 Web Predictions  —  What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008?  In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us.  Topics include Google, semantic web, online advertising, recommendation systems …
 
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Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
iPhone take-up the key as O2 targets Europe
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Quoted in the News? Post a Comment, Please
Discussion: Valleywag
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Quiet year for tech on Capitol Hill
Paul Sims / Daily Mail:
Apple to launch iPod with automatic volume control that can protect your hearing
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
2007: The Year in RSS  —  This past year was a big one for RSS.
 Earlier Items: 
Todd R. Weiss / Computerworld:
Q&A: Craig Newmark, of ‘Craigslist’ fame, looks back — and ahead
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Airborne Internet might bring turbulence
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Christmas Present For Apple Bulls: Mac Cleared for Takeoff
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Toshiba and Sharp to join forces on LCD panels
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Europe's startup culture gets the Business Week treatment