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Jasmin Melvin / Reuters:
Internet road rules near FCC vote — (Reuters) - A controversial proposal for Internet traffic rules that would allow providers to ration access to their networks is scheduled to come before communications regulators for a vote on Tuesday. — The rules would ban high-speed Internet providers …
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Engadget, DSLreports, Multichannel News and Pulse2
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John Borthwick / TechCrunch:
Neutrality Or Bust — Access to fast, affordable and open broadband, for users and developers alike is, I believe, the single most important driver of innovation in our business. The FCC will likely vote next week on a framework for net neutrality—we got aspects of this wrong ten years ago, we can't afford to be wrong again.
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New York Times and Electronista
Kenneth Corbin / EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet:
GOP Opposition to FCC Net Neutrality Plan Mounts
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Hillicon Valley and Post Tech
Stephen Hood / unique hazards may exist:
We can save Delicious, but probably not in the way you think — I left Yahoo over two years ago, but prior to that I spent three years running product for Delicious. Since then I've remained a loyal user and supporter. To this day I keep in touch with former Delicious colleagues and consider many to be friends.
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TechCrunch, Thanks:mdoeff
Steven Loeb / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
SNL: Julian Assange Hacks Into Mark Zuckerberg's ‘Person Of The Year’ Thank-You Message — Julian Assange has been maligned in the press, thrown in jail, had his name dragged through the mud, but now he has a real reason to be furious with the United States: — Time chose Mark Zuckerberg as ‘Person of the Year’ over him!
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Examiner, Pulse2, Mediaite and Digital Journal
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program — Late last week, with absolutely no public announcement, Microsoft quietly retired one cog in its antipiracy machine. — An anonymous tipster informed me on Friday that Microsoft had shut down its Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program as of Thursday, December 16.
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
The Best HTML5 Game Yet: A Threat To Flash? — Casual gaming is a bastion for Adobe's Flash format, but we are told that it is just a matter of time until HTML5 will replace Flash as we know it today. Grant Skinner has released the best casual HTML5 game we have seen to date and we wonder …
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gskinner.com, Pulse2, Computerworld and MSDN Blogs
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed — As we've written a number of times over the past few days, Yahoo appears to be in complete disarray. Following layoffs at the company this week, a leaked memo revealed that Yahoo is “sunsetting” …
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ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, Wap Review and Enterprise Irregulars
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Wave Technology Lives On In Google's New Shared Spaces — Google has quietly launched a new Labs project today - Google Shared Spaces. Based on Google Wave gadgets technology, Shared Spaces is designed to be an easy way to create and share collaborative applications.
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Google Operating System, Google Labs, Mashable!, Techie Buzz and Beyond Search
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
When OCR Goes Bad: Google's Ngram Viewer & The F-Word — Google launched its Google Books Ngram Viewer this week, a tool that lets you research how popular words and phrases have been over several centuries, based on their appearance in books. But can you trust it?
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ReadWriteWeb, TeleRead and Data Mining
Paul Buchheit:
The Cloud OS — My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response. Some said that my prediction was obvious and boring, but others disagreed, arguing instead that I am ugly and “don't get it”. I won't disagree with either side …
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Google Operating System, Macworld, Beyond Search, eWeek and Life On the Wicked Stage, Thanks:zee
Glenn Chapman / Agence France Presse:
Firefox backs “Do Not Track” with online stealth — MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — As concern about online privacy grows, Mozilla is promising to let people cloak Internet activity in free Firefox Web browsing software being released early next year. — “Technology that supports something …
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Technology Liberation Front
Glynnis MacNicol / SAI:
Joe Biden Compares Julian Assange To ‘High-Tech Terrorist,’ Says Justice Dept. Looking Into Charges — From Meet the Press this morning. — Vice President Joe Biden sounded quite grave on the subject of Julian Assange, whom he compared to “a high-tech terrorist”
