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New York Times:
Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews — Google TV has just enacted its first programming cancellation. — The Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas was meant to be the great coming-out party for Google's new software for televisions, which adds Web video and other computer smarts to TV sets.
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MediaMemo, ConceivablyTech, Engadget and Daring Fireball, Thanks:louisgray
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 …
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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
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.
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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0xDECAFBAD and 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!
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Best Buy bundling free Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T MiFis with iPads, contract required — Best Buy has just started a offering a new iPad bundle which includes your choice of an AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint MiFi device. These MiFis support up to five wireless devices including the iPad.
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iGadgetsReport and Electronista, Thanks:markgurman
Michelle Higgins / New York Times:
Airport Apps Put You First in Line — IT goes without saying: Holiday travel is brutal. Security lines are longer. Planes are more crowded. The battle for storage space heats up as travelers vie to stuff all those gift-laden bags in overhead bins. And if bad weather hits …
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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Pulse2, gskinner.com, Computerworld and MSDN Blogs
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
The @Mention Cloud — There's a real struggle going on right now for control of the InBox. The platform is the iPad and the challengers are Flipboard and Twitter. I just tried the revamped Flipboard and still felt handcuffed between an art director's vision of what I should like and what I would like to discover.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Blip.tv Readies HTML5 as its Standard Player, Replacing Flash — While most of the the major video sites and online video players are providing HTML5 support, primarily for Apple iOS devices, Blip.tv is going to adopt HTML5 as its standard player for the Web and other platforms, says Justin Day …
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
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, WebProNews, SitePoint and Mashable!
