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8:35 AM ET, December 15, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web  —  The celebrated openness of the Internet — network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic — is quietly losing powerful defenders.  —  Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic …
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Lessig Blog:
The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal  —  I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal.  To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal after you read what follows.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google NOT Turning Its Back on Network Neutrality  —  Updated @ 9:30 pm: In response to an earlier story in The Wall Street Journal, Google offered a clarification and reaffirmed its stance on network neutrality and pointed out that it is not backing away from it.  It has dismissed the WSJ story as confused.
Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Net neutrality and the benefits of caching  —  One of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer tried to define what we at Google mean when we talk about the concept of net neutrality.  —  Broadband providers — the on-ramps to the Internet — should not be allowed to prioritize traffic based …
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Palm Pins Its Hopes on Nova  —  The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January's CES.  Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap  —  Jon Rubinstein got the call in mid-2007 while he was living on the Pacific Coast of Mexico …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service?  Mahalo Answers.  —  Mahalo is now answering your questions.  The human-curated search engine/ condensed wiki guide is adding a Q&A service called Mahalo Answers to its mix.  It is a combination of Yahoo Answers …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Nano Rumors Revived in Otherwise Quiet Lead-in to Macworld  —  Questionably reliable iDealsChina publishes information and renderings of what it claims to be an “iPhone nano”.  —  It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
News About News, in 140 Characters  —  With staff changes and reductions across the media industry, even a blog post can be too time-consuming a way to announce who is in and out of a job.  That is why a public relations employee turned to the instant-blogging platform Twitter to create The Media Is Dying …
Discussion: textually.org, Gawker and Beet.TV
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Ways to Monetize Twitter  —  Plus Ways to Waste Time on the Web  —  1. CHARGE FOR IT  —  Of course, companies can already use the service for free, so what, exactly, would be new?  Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus, has some ideas: more-customizable profile pages, a dashboard to manage followers and tech support.
Discussion: Twitterrati and CostPerNews
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
OpenX Shows Impressive Growth, Ramps Up Revenue Streams  —  OpenX (which used to be called Openads), provider of an open-source ad serving solution for web publishers - we use it at TechCrunch -, is growing like weed under the leadership of former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, who is the company's chairman …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and CNET News
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Stickam API Lets You Build Your Own Live Video Site  —  Stickam, a live video streaming service that competes with the likes of Justin.tv and Ustream.tv, is releasing a new API that effectively allows anyone to build their own streaming video startup with a minimal amount of effort.
Discussion: Mashable!
Bill Ray / The Register:
ADSL - the VoIP killer  —  Weak link in reliability chain  —  Over half of UK businesses are avoid VoIP 'cos their ADSL broadband connections to branch offices aren't up to scratch, according to research coming out of Enterprise-VoIP specialists Viatel.  —  Viatel hired Omniboss to talk …
Discussion: VoIP Watch
Andrew Ramadge / NEWS.com.au:
Digital Liberty Coalition protests against web filter held across Australia  —  Digital divide ... hundreds attended rallies across Australia today to oppose the Government's web filtering plan.  —  HUNDREDS of people attended rallies in Australian capital cities yesterday to voice …
Discussion: The Register
 
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DigiTimes:
Taiwan iPhone 3Gs are SIM unlocked out-of-the-box
Discussion: SlashGear and Unwired View
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
NetShelter raises $11.1 million for online media network
Discussion: paidContent.org
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Zannel brings media-rich microblogging to iPhone
Discussion: Social Media
Ajesh Patalay / Guardian:
All smiles as web shows come of age
comScore:
Week After Cyber Monday Brings Slight Lull in E-Commerce Sales …
BBC:
Virgin unveils next-gen broadband
Discussion: Working Anywhere
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Interview: New NYT.com GM Denise Warren: Tip-toeing Into Aggregation …
Discussion: ReveNews
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Kumo gets a trademark
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Alejandro Lazo / Washington Post:
In First Step, Delta to Offer WiFi on Selected Flights
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nokia patent app suggests N97's form factor isn't complicated enough
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BitTorrent Recapitalizes: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuation Plummets
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
How Casual Game Startups Can Survive Recession
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Change.gov iPhone App Now Available
Markcuban / blog maverick:
What Yahoo Should Do  —  In this economic day and age, cash is king.
Discussion: BoomTown and Susan Mernit's Blog