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7:05 PM ET, November 20, 2010

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole  —  See Updates at bottom of post.  —  Facebook would probably just consider this a feature, but the rest of us will definitely consider this a big security hole.  The creator of http://guntada.blogspot.com (don't visit that site just yet) emailed us this morning to explain.
Discussion: Examiner and Techie Buzz
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Gmail Call Recording Appears To Be Rolling Out Widely  —  Back in August, Gmail launched what is perhaps my favorite new feature ever: integration with Google Voice, which lets you make and receive calls directly from your computer.  —  Earlier this month, there were some initial reports …
Discussion: Examiner
Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story:
Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill  —  It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet.  —  A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet  —  This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill — despite a bunch of law professors explaining …
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
Congress's latest awful tech-policy idea: the Net-censorship bill
Discussion: PlagiarismToday and Music Ally
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple to Offer Free MobileMe Service to Some iOS Users?  —  Earlier this month, we noted that the original golden master version of iOS 4.2 appeared to be preparing to allow users to sign in to MobileMe using their Apple IDs and even offer users the ability create a free Apple ID right from the MobileMe settings page in iOS.
cdixon's posterous:
The anti-bubble of 2001-2004  —  Us old timers remember 2001-2004 when anything related to the internet was ridiculed as a ponzi scheme.  The conventional wisdom was no internet company would ever make money and all the ideas of the dot-com boom were stupid.
Joel Evans / The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog:
Verizon Wireless really screwed up the Samsung Tab with pricing and policy  —  I've been playing with a Samsung Tab from Verizon Wireless since November 11th.  I will share my impressions of the device in the coming days but in the interim, I wanted to let the world know about how crazy Verizon Wireless …
Discussion: displayblog and Geek.com
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
New Facebook Messaging Continues to Block Some Links  —  Facebook's “modern messaging system” may make it convenient to seamlessly move between instant messaging and a Facebook.com e-mail account, but not if you are sharing a link to a file sharing site.  —  Facebook began blocking BitTorrent …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Iran Worm Can Deal Double Blow to Nuclear Program  —  The German software engineer who in September was the first to report that a computer worm was apparently designed to sabotage targets in Iran said Friday that the program contained two separate “digital warheads.”
Discussion: Haaretz and Langner
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Low Volume and No Retweets: Ping Is Not Going Viral on Twitter  —  Last week, Apple launched a partnership with Twitter that allows the users of its Ping social network to send their likes to their Twitter streams.  Using Microsoft's Archivist, we tapped into the Twitter firehose …
Thanks:fredericl
Ty McMahan / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Zemanta's CEO Has The Funding - Now How About A Visa?  —  Bostjan Spetic's problem isn't running a U.S. business.  It's running a business while in the U.S.  —  His company Zemanta Ltd. is experiencing success here, having recently raised an additional $3 million to grow its New York-based team.
Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:
Palm Mansion To Come With 5″ Touchscreen Display; Launching In Q1 2011?  —  Palm is known to be working on at least two new devices - Palm Mansion and PalmPad - that are likely to be launched early next year.  While not much information is available about these devices as yet …
 
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 More Items: 
Ben Rooney / Wall Street Journal:
High-Tech Buzz: All of a Sudden Everyone Wants to Love a Eurogeek
Discussion: Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
‘The Office’ Spoofs Silicon Valley
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Cybersecurity bill gives DHS power to punish tech firms
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Where Are the Android Killer Apps?
Discussion: Scobleizer, Gizmodo, displayblog and Joystiq, Thanks:rawmeet
 Earlier Items: 
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its Service
Discussion: Gawker, TechCrunch and Inside Facebook
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Accel Sold Big Chunk Of Facebook Stock At $35 Billion Valuation
Discussion: Softpedia News, VentureBeat and SAI
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding

Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times:
LAist initiates a voluntary buyout program for staff to avoid layoffs as it faces a “significant budget shortfall” ranging from $4M-$5M in the next two years

A.J. Perez / Front Office Sports:
Lineup Publishing says it plans to relaunch Deadspin next week; it appears the new Deadspin will focus on sports betting

 
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