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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Exec Souders To Google; Yahoo to Zero? — Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo, is jumping to Google as of Jan. 7. From the outside, hard to see this as anything other than yet another long-term exec (2000) fleeing a sinking ship. Any insights appreciated. Steve's bio below.
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
BlackBerry 9000 revealed, major disappointment? — It appears the rumored touchscreen BB is just a myth if you believe what first time poster Cooper over at BB Forums has to say. This photo was purportedly taken in Waterloo at the RIM campus. The 9xxx line won't see a touchscreen for a long …
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Reuters:
Vonage and Nortel settle patent dispute — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet-based calling company Vonage Holdings Corp (VG.N) said it has agreed to settle a patent dispute with Nortel Networks (NT.TO) (NT.N) with no payment of damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent.
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James Thomas / MentallyRetired:
What is Jakob Lodwick up to? Tumblr acquisition? — Last night I posted the Vimeo “Flagpole Sitta” video. The relation to Vimeo made me want to check out what Jakob Lodwick has been up to since his infamous canning from IAC. Little did I know, it would take me on an hour long easter egg hunt on the internet.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:What The Heck Is a Norbum? Jakob Lodwick and David Karp Know.
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globes.co.il:
Search tech co Hooja raises $1.5m from Facebook investor — The company intends to open an R&D center in Israel. — Shmulik Shelah 31 Dec 07 09:58 — Search technology start-up Hooja Inc. has raised $1.5 million from some well known-investors, including Peter Thiel …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Nintendo Wii hack opens door to homebrew games — Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code in a move that makes it far easier to develop homebrew games for the popular gaming device. — Up to now developers have only been able to write homebrew games for the Gamecude, not the Wii.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
P2i's Ion-Mask coating could make waterproof phones an everyday occurrence — Plenty of waterproof phones and other small weatherproof devices have made it off the assembly lines and into our clumsy clutches, but P2i, a small spinoff company using tech originated within the Defence Science …
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Electronista:
LG preps 52, 84-inch multi-touch LCDs, more — LG Phillips LCD has today revealed some of its first multi-touch displays and is targeting them at users who want to bring the technology to large rooms and public spaces. At 52 and 84 inches, the two new displays are the largest yet to allow …
Karl / DSLreports:
$20 AT&T Naked DSL Arrives - Merger condition required it before year's end.... In order to gain government approval for its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T was allowed to conveniently author their own merger conditions (pdf), which the FCC boldly stated they probably wouldn't enforce anyway.
heise Security:
24C3: Barcode systems susceptible to serious hacker attacks — Experts say that the Barcodes our highly automated business world could now hardly do without, often display serious security holes. In particular, one- or two-dimensional systems of barcodes and matrix codes are open …
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James Niccolai / Macworld:
US bans spare lithium batteries from checked bags — New rules will go into effect on Jan. 1 that prohibit air passengers in the U.S. from carrying spare lithium batteries in their checked baggage. — The new rules, announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Transport, are designed to reduce the risk of fires in aircraft.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas — To some music lovers, the fact that Josh Groban's Noel was the highest-selling album of 2007 is all the proof they need that major-label music is dying. To shareholders and label execs, though, the numbers are more important …
Lawrence / Trends in Japan:
Inside the Tokyo Traffic Control Center — Tokyo traffic can be crazy. Perhaps not as crazy as it is frustrating, but it's certainly a lot easier to get through the mess on a Monkey rather than in a car. — However, despite our gripes about traffic lights that seem very poorly timed …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
In Restless Pursuit of Craigslist's Success — MICROSOFT tried. Google tried. Now it's eBay's turn to see if it can dethrone the Web's most spectacularly successful underdog, Craigslist. — The Kijiji unit of eBay, a free classified ads service covering 13 countries online …
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Facebook, Lifelets, and Designer Responsibility — If you're a regular reader of Bokardo then you know I think issues like the Facebook Beacon incident, the Facebook News Feed incident, and the Digg gaming incident(s) are big deals. (I've written about all three here on Bokardo)
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo:
R/C Spy Snooper Robot is Undetectable...Like a Fat, Clumsy Ninja — According to the product page, the R/C Spy Snooper robot vehicle is “capable of entering a room undetected." Call me crazy, but you would have to be blind, deaf or both to miss a robot that measures 9-inches long and about 10-inches high when it enters a room.
