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10:20 AM ET, December 18, 2007

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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Meets with DoCoMo, Softbank On Launching iPhone in Japan  —  After signing deals with U.S. and European operators to sell its iPhone earlier this year, Apple Inc. now is making plans to enter Japan, one of the biggest and most sophisticated mobile-phone markets in the world.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone coming to Japan's NTT DoCoMo?  —  According to the Wall Street Journal Asia, Jobs and Co are in Japan working out the details for a domestic iPhone launch.  It's no surprise then that Jobs was rumored to have just met with NTT DoCoMo's president, Masao Nakamur, to discuss the deal …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Yes, There Can Be Life After Word  —  AS the clerk at Circuit City rang up my purchase of a new notebook computer last month, she started her up-selling.  —  Padded bag?  No. Security lock?  No. Windows Office?  —  For someone who processes words for a living, Microsoft's software would seem to be an indispensable tool.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
NPD: Leopard latest in chain of "blow-out" Apple OS launches
Discussion: Epicenter and Insanely Great Mac
Electronista:   NPD: Leopard Apple's best OS launch yet
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Introducing Video Sitemaps  —  In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search.
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Google Android Prototype In the Wild  —  Here's the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild.  It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator.  Our source, a Giz reader …
Martin Roscheisen / Nanosolar Blog:
Nanosolar Ships First Panels  —  After five years of product development - including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction - we now have shipped …
Discussion: CNET News.com
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google's co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Howard Lindzon
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
The Depth of EBay's Problems 2: Angry Sellers  —  Here's another angle on what's wrong at eBay: Sellers increasingly find eBay too expensive and are becoming successful finding buyers on Amazon.com or on their own sites.  I wrote Friday about why Amazon should buy eBay.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Source: Digg hires bank, hoping to sell for $300 million or more  —  It's been a little more than a month since the last rumors surfaced about social news site Digg trying to sell itself for at least $300 million.  —  A reliable source just confirmed the company's plans …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
For Sale: Used Social Voting Site, Asking Price $300 Million …
Discussion: Shoemoney, Insider Chatter and Digg
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Bloglines Gets A Triple Dose Of New Features  —  Bloglines has added three new features to its RSS reading service.  —  First up is the ability to save posts including text and graphics from within Bloglines to a "Saved" folder.  This allows users to have quick access to previously read posts at a later date.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Ingram Micro's $459 24-inch V7 monitor is an HDMI oddity  —  Ingram Micro just kicked out an oddball, budget monitor under their V7 brand.  How budget?  Very.  The 24-inch D24W33 has an MSRP of $459.  That takes home a 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, 1,000:1 reported contrast, 250cd/m2 brightness …
Discussion: Electronista
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian Unlimited:
Facebook whales: 800 is 'too many friends'  —  After my story this weekend on Facebook 'whales' - those inveterate social networkers who have gathered more than 1,000 friends on the site - the New York Times is running a number about how researchers are digging into Facebook.
Discussion: Scobleizer
Jason Schultz / LawGeek:
Copyright, fair use and the struggle against online image misappropriation  —  Lane Hartwell is an exceptionally talented freelance photographer and a friend of mine.  She's one of a new generation of phototakers who are attempting to embrace the Internet and online photo-sharing sites like Flickr …
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uk.playstation.com:
Update features (ver 2.10)  —  Find out what features are included in PS3 system software update 2.10.  —  An update to the PS3 system software was released on December 18, 2007.  If you update your PS3 system, the system software version will be 2.10 and the following features will be updated.
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Local Papers' Web Scramble  —  With Web companies now beginning to dominate the market for local ads online, newspaper publishers are scrambling to change the way they sell ads, hiring sales teams that specialize in the digital market and creating new editorial packages to sell.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Getting Millions Of People Listening To Your Music, With Many Giving You Money Voluntarily, Is Dumb?  —  Karl writes in to point out that on Fortune/CNN's somewhat bizarre list of 101 Dumbest Moments in Business, number 59 is about Radiohead's decision to offer a name-your-own-price offering for its downloaded music.
 
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
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A French Twist in Silicon Valley
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Former Russian Spies Are Now Prominent in Business
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Former NYT investigative reporter David Burnham, whose work uncovering corruption in the NYPD during the 1970s inspired the movie Serpico, dies at the age of 91

Matthew Jordan / The Conversation:
As Congress tries to force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest, it should push licensed stations to abide by public interest standards

Victoria Gomelsky / New York Times:
Watches of Switzerland Group, one of the world's largest watch retailers, acquires the watch enthusiast website Hodinkee, says coverage will remain independent

 
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