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Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks — Early this week, after hacker attacks on its site, Wikileaks moved its operation, including all those diplomatic cables, to the greener pastures of Amazon.com's cloud servers. But today, it was down again and mid-afternoon we found out the reason …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Sen. Joe Lieberman: Amazon Has Pulled Hosting Services For WikiLeaks — WikiLeaks was briefly down this morning not only because of ongoing DDoS attacks, but because it was actually taken off Amazon Web Services by Amazon and moved back to a Swedish provider, according to a statement from Senator Joe Lieberman:
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Computerworld, Agence France Presse, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Techdirt, Gawker, Between the Lines Blog, BoxBinary Blog, OSNews, Gizmodo, CircleID and Techie Buzz
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
WikiLeaks site, pummeled by attacks, leaves US — NEW YORK (AP) — The WikiLeaks website has left its U.S. Web host, Amazon.com, and moved back to a Swedish provider. The site, which just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department documents, took up residence on Amazon.com Inc.'s …
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Guardian, Electricpig.co.uk, BGR, Neowin.net, SAI and NEWS.com.au, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Baldwin / Official Google Reader Blog:
The Android Google Reader app is here! — It's been a long time coming, but the official Google Reader app for Android is finally here. Let's jump into the features, shall we? — The app supports all the basics you'd expect like unread counts, friends, sharing, liking, and starring, but it also has a whole lot more, including:
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Changes Its Rank Algorithm In Response To DecorMyEyes Story — more info (via: Wylio)Over Thanksgiving weekend a New York Times story, “A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web” clued a lot of people in to some of the drawbacks of Google, namely that negative attention online and complaint links …
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InformationWeek, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, Search Engine Land, Social Studies Blog and ReadWriteWeb
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Windows Phone 7 Update Is No iPhone Killer — Since it is bubble-bursting Wednesday here at Mobilized, let me assure you that the forthcoming update to Windows Phone 7 is neither “massive” nor an iPhone killer, despite some reports to the contrary. — On the other hand, the software update …
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Mobility Digest, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Technologizer and Appolicious Advisor
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Amazon Poised to Make a Major Strategic Investment in LivingSocial to Counter Groupoogle Threat — With the red-hot acquisition dance between Google and Groupon sucking up all the attention, it's easy once again to ignore the No. 2 player in the fast-growing social buying space-LivingSocial.
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Screenwerk, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, AfterDawn.com, PE Hub Blog and The Next Web
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Verizon to switch on 4G network on Sunday, but not for smartphones — Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it would turn on its 4G wireless network Sunday in 38 U.S. cities, though the new network will not support smartphones until the first half of 2011. — Instead, the 4G network …
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix Boosts Streaming Catalog With First-Run Movies — Netflix announced today that it has signed a multi-year deal with newly-formed film distribution company FilmDistrict to bring first-run films to its streaming catalog. — Last week, Netflix introduced a streaming-only subscription plan …
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PR Newswire, NBC Bay Area, BGR, CNET News, GigaOM, Digital Daily and Between the Lines Blog
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers — Endorses “Do Not Track” to Facilitate Consumer Choice About Online Tracking The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years …
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Alex Howard / Gov 2.0:
FTC online privacy report endorses “Do-Not-Track” mechanism for Web browsers
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9 to 5 Mac:
Apple opens up new business with POS systems — Late last year there were rumors that Apple would release their EasyPay point-of-sale system as a commercial product to third parties. Last month Apple's first customer, Gap Inc's Old Navy subsidiary began piloting them.
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Smart mute and easier ways to unmute — If you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists and like to keep an empty inbox, muting (or preventing a conversation from re-entering your inbox) is an essential feature. We just made a few changes that should make muting even better.
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
No One Happy With FCC Chairman's Speech, Except Broadband Investors — Everyone has something to say about today's speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality (video below). Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users …
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The Register, Between the Lines Blog, GMSV, Reboot FCC Blog and Media Access Project, more at Mediagazer »
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Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot — Of course, we're never too sure that what our tipsters have told us is the truth, but this one claims he bought Motorola's unannounced new flagship at a market. The very same Android that's leaked all over the place recently.
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GottaBeMobile, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Erictric, Pocket-lint, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, LaptopMemo, PhoneArena, BGR, Android and Me, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo and Engadget
Nielsen Wire:
U.S. Smartphone Battle Heats Up: Which is the “Most Desired” Operating System? — According to October 2010 data from The Nielsen Company, 29.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones that run full operating systems. — The most popular smartphones are the Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry …
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Simon Mackie / GigaOM:
Evernote 2.0 Beta for Mac Features Notebook Stacks and Sharing — Note-taking app maker Evernote released the beta of the next major version of its client for Mac Wednesday. It includes a couple of great new features: in-app notebook sharing and notebook stacks.
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Evernote Blogcast, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, MacStories and Mashable!
Michael Calore / Webmonkey:
Chrome Browser to Start Sandboxing Flash Player — The latest developer channel release of the Chrome browser now supports sandboxing for Adobe's Flash Player on Windows 7, Vista and XP. — This feature should provide extra protection against malicious browser exploits through the Flash Player.
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Chromium Blog and eWeek
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Boom! 5 Million Users Check-In To Foursquare — It appears that Foursquare has just passed 5 million users if new user account numbers are correct. — It's taken just a month and a half for the location-based social network to accumulate one million more members.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Silicon Valley Go-To Guy Peter Currie Joining Twitter Board — According to sources close to the situation, well-known Silicon Valley power player Peter Currie is joining the board of directors of Twitter. — It's an interesting choice to bring the well-regarded moneyman …
Naval Ravikant / Startup Boy:
There is No Angel Bubble. There are Many Angel Bubbles. — A common meme floating around right now is that there is an Angel investing bubble. — In the sense that an enormous amount of capital is being placed at risk, and its popping will have grave macro-economic consequences, No.
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
BlackBerry 6 kernel gets cryptographic seal of approval from U.S. goverment — Today, Research In Motion announced that the cryptographic kernel of its BlackBerry 6 mobile operating system has earned the FIPS 140-2 security certification. FIPS, or Federal Information Processing Standard …
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Al Sacco's blog, CNET News and The Next Web
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Officially Launches Ads You Can Skip — Yep, you read that right. Today, YouTube is officially launching TrueView, a new ad format that lets users skip over ads they aren't interested in — and advertisers are actually okay with it. — It's a new format that YouTube has been testing …
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GigaOM, Softpedia News, SAI, WebProNews and Electronista
Don Clark / Digits:
Qualcomm CEO Comes Clean About Mobile TV Miscues — Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs almost escaped having to talk about the company's ill-starred mobile television effort at an event in Silicon Valley Tuesday night. But not quite. — The topic wasn't raised until the audience question …
Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Open to New Investors for Global Expansion — Hulu LLC wants to expand its online video service internationally and would be willing to take on new investors to help it do so, Jason Kilar, its chief executive, said in an interview Wednesday. — Mr. Kilar said there is an “unmet need” …
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GigaOM and ReadWriteWeb
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Dell Venue Pro finally available to order: $99 on contract, shipping December 9th — The much-delayed and much-desired Venue Pro is now finally ready for its proper launch. Dell has begun taking online orders for its first Windows Phone 7 device and prices are set at $99 for the 8GB handset …
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BGR, CNET News, The Seattle Times, Gadget Lab, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, MobileTechWorld and pocketnow.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Leanback Brings Personalized Channels To Your TV — Around YouTube headquarters, there's a stat that management likes to throw around to make it clear that the company isn't resting on its laurels. No, it isn't the fact the site is the world's second largest search engine …
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