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Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight; Best of 2010?
National Geographic
For sky-watchers willing to brave frosty winter temperatures, more than a
hundred meteors an hour may fall overnight on December 13 and 14, the peak
of the annual Geminid meteor shower. "The quarter moon will obscure the
first part of the show, ...
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Gawker hacked, 1.5 million accounts compromised
Digitaltrends.com
Hackers that may or may not be from 4chan took down all Gawker Media sites
over the weekend, publishing staff passwords and obtaining usernames,
emails, and passwords for 1.5 million users registered on the Website
network. ...
<http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gawker-hacked-1-5-million-accounts-compromised/>
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Product News: Google Latitude Finds its Way to the App Store
The Mac Observer
Google's location-based social networking service Latitude finally appeared
on Apple's iTunes-based App Store on Monday. The Google Latitude app was
originally submitted for App Store approval, but the Internet search giant
eventually dropped its push ...
<http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/google_latitude_finds_its_way_to_the_app_store/>
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Google Chrome OS CR-48 Notebook Reviewed
InformationWeek
Google's Chrome OS preview netbook is beautiful and full of promise, but
the company's vision for the cloud isn't enough. By Thomas Claburn ,
InformationWeek Google's Cr-48 Chrome OS netbook provides the first glimpse
of a "third choice in desktop ...
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Boffins crack walnut-shaped Iapetus moon mystery
Register
By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Space boffins studying the
puzzling mystery of Iapetus, the walnut-shaped moon of Saturn, believe they
may have discovered how the strange body's unique equatorial ridge was
formed. ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/13/iapetus_ridge_cracked/>
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Apple removes jailbreak detection from iOS 4.2
Digitaltrends.com
Apple's jailbreak detection was already known to hackers who had begun
employing methods to avoid it. Apple has quietly and without warning
dropped support for a jailbreak detection application programming interface
(API) that was included as part of ...
<http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-removes-jailbreak-detection-from-ios-4-2/?news=123>
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Apple, Google in Bidding War for Nortel Patents
Cult of Mac
By Ed Sutherland (6:13 am, Dec. 13, 2010) Apple will likely bid for part of
some of the 4000 patents worth $1 billion held by bankrupt Nortel Networks,
according to a Monday report. Google is probably also competing against the
Cupertino, ...
<http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-google-in-bidding-war-for-nortel-patents/72782>
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Verizon Considers Data Family Plans, Android Killing RIM
DailyTech
Newly appointed Verizon Wireless CEO Daniel Mead spoke with The Wall Street
Journal recently about his vision for the future of his company and the
wireless industry, which includes the possibility of "metered pricing" for
data, and a shared-data ...
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