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7:15 PM ET, December 29, 2010

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Lars Rabbe / Skype Blogs:
CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage  —  As a follow-up to last week's outage, here is a detailed explanation of what transpired, the root cause, and plans to mitigate this from happening again in the future.  For starters, it helps to understand that Skype is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which is explained here.
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Christopher White / Neowin:
Skype offers users $1 for lost service, explains cause of outage
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Skype Postmortem: Overloaded Servers and Desktop Bugs Brought Us Down
Hilzfuld / Mobile and Social Media:
Peter Vesterbacka, Maker of Angry Birds Talks about the Birds, Apple, Android, Nokia, and Palm/HP  —  There are many speculations regarding the cause of the recent global economic recession, but we all know the truth.  It was the Angry Birds and their affect on the productivity of the work force.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Angry Birds Executive Says Apple Will Remain Developer Favorite Over Android  —  While Android has been getting lots of positive buzz in recent days, the picture is not entirely rosy in that neck of the mobile woods.  —  A top executive at Angry Birds creator Rovio says that it is still hard …
Discussion: MarketWatch and Android Community
John Koblin / WWD:
Memo Pad: iPad Magazine Sales Drop  —  Remember when Wired's debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June?  It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again.  Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available …
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
What those low iPad magazine sales numbers really mean
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Delicious In Purgatory  —  On December 16 Yahoo accidentally told the world they were shutting down popular bookmarking site Delicious.  They fired most or all of the Delicious staff.  Then they untold that story, saying they intended to sell it off and that the press got it all wrong.  —  Ok great.
Discussion: SAI
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info  —  Evan Williams and I have known each other for a long time.  From a struggling entrepreneur who started Blogger, to a successful founder who got liberal funding for his podcasting start-up Odeo, to the accidental launch of Twitter …
Discussion: Pulse2 and ReadWriteWeb
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Hitwise: Facebook Overtakes Google To Become Most Visited Website In 2010  —  According to Hitwise data released today, Facebook.com was the top visited website in the US in 2010, taking up 8.93% of site visits between January and November 2010.  Google.com came in second at 7.19% …
Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
HTC Evo Shift 4G breaks cover again, with a Jan 9 sale date  —  We already knew the Evo Shift 4G was coming, and it was priced at $150 (on contract).  We also had it on good authority that it was coming on Jan 9, but now we're sure — thanks to the Shack.  In an upcoming sale ad …
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
NY Times Biffs It on Wi-Fi Conference Overload  —  The New York Times doesn't get to the heart of conference Wi-Fi problems: I can't tell you how frustrated I am about this rather facile article on problems with thousands of people all trying to connect at once to a Wi-Fi network (or networks) …
Discussion: New York Times and Technologizer
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Irony: Read Kindle Books On Your Rooted NookColor  —  Just when we thought the NookColor was just a B&N reading device, hackers have rooted the devices and ported the Kindle reading app to the platform, ensuring plenty of migraines around Barnes & Noble HQ this week.
T-Marco / Cell Phone Signal:
Exclusive : This is the new Motorola Cliq 2 , another Android phone for T-Mobile  —  Yes guys, we did it again.  After showing you the first exclusive pictures of the new Dell Streak 7, now we are giving you one present for this 2011.  We introduce you the new and better Motorola Cliq 2 aka Begonia.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs  —  Kevin Poulsen (left), Evan Hansen (right) and Bradley Manning  —  Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo.
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Sony Files Patent Lawsuit to Ban LG Mobile Phones From U.S.  —  Sony Corp., Japan's biggest exporter of consumer electronics, filed patent-infringement claims seeking to block LG Electronics Inc. from shipping mobile phones to the U.S.  —  Sony filed the complaints yesterday …
Vivek Wadhwa / Foreign Policy:
Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch  —  Watch out, Silicon Valley: China and India aren't just graduating bad engineers and stealing intellectual property anymore.  They're fostering innovations that will shake the world.  —  Earlier this month …
Xperia X10 Blog:
X10 mini successor snapped with Gingerbread and benchmarked  —  The leaks just keep on coming.  This time we have what looks like the successor to the X10 mini or X10 mini pro according to the guy that leaked them on IT168.  The images clearly show the unnamed device running Android Gingerbread …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's iTunes rental service believed to be 10% the size of Netflix  —  Though it is half as old as Netflix, Apple's iTunes rental service is believed to be about one-tenth the size of the competing rental service, one analyst has projected.  —  Analyst Brian Marshall with Gleacher & Company …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Back off SEC: Let's Put the “Risk” of Secondary Markets in Perspective  —  Back in early 2009, I was concerned about the development of private stock secondary market exchanges.  I was concerned that it would affect retention of top executives if people were able to cash out before an IPO too easily.
Discussion: Fortune, Forbes and ITworld.com
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Peter Lattman / DealBook:
Share Rules Could Push Offering by Facebook
Rebecca Kuo / DigiTimes:
LG Display ships 1.5 million iPad panels in November, Samsung ships 1.2 million units  —  Shipments of 9.7-inch iPad panels from LG Display reached 1.5 million units in November 2010, and fellow supplier Samsung Electronics' shipments reached 1.2 million units for the month.
John Borland / Threat Level:
Breaking GSM With a $15 Phone ... Plus Smarts  —  BERLIN — Whatever assurances have been given about the security of GSM cellphone calls, forget about them now.  —  Use at your own risk.  —  Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated …
Discussion: Engadget, Help Net Security and Gizmodo
 
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Greylock's Reid Hoffman and David Sze on the Future of Social (Video)
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Russian e-Payment Giant ChronoPay Hacked
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
China delays NSN's $1.2 billion buy of Motorola unit
Jennifer Baker / Computerworld:
EU one step closer to global standard mobile-phone charger
Discussion: Engadget
Julia Ioffe / Business Week:
Facebook's Russian Campaign
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Gawker was hacked six months ago, say sources close to Gnosis
Discussion: Naked Security
 Earlier Items: 
Venkat / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Court Rejects Agence France-Presse's Attempt to Claim License …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
SAP Granted Lower APR Damages Award in Oracle Case
Discussion: SiliconANGLE and Bloomberg
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Skype teases its mobile video function with a new landing page
Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Fiber-Optic Networks Regain Some Glow
Darren Murph / Engadget:
BMW Connected app hits iOS App Store, ‘Apps’ function hitting vehicles next year
Discussion: App Advice
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed
 
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