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  'Don't-be-evil' Google spurns no-evil software

  A joke by an open-source software programmer--'The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil'--is a serious matter at Google.

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  Brawn of Facebook, brains of Twitter

  year in review Other social media players were swept aside in 2009, given Facebook's astonishing global reach and Twitter's groundbreaking changes in how we communicate.

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• AT&T resumes online iPhone sales in NY

  It's once again safe to order an iPhone through AT&T's Web site if you live in New York, after an unexplained halt in the area over the weekend.
  • AT&T ceases online iPhone sales in NY area

  (Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

• Consumer groups urge block of Google-AdMob deal

  Google's proposed acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob would make it too easy to bring the Web giant's dominant search ad business to the mobile world, according to two consumer groups.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• App store downloads shine on Christmas

  Mobile app downloads for Apple's iPod Touch jump 1,000 percent on Christmas Day following 51 percent leap in overall downloads for December, says research firm Flurry.

  (Posted in Apple by Lance Whitney)

• GSM crypto code cracked, engineer says

  German computer engineer says he cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls, reports The New York Times.

  (Posted in Security by Andrew Nusca)

• Speculating on Chrome OS Netbook specs

  If rumored specs for the Netbook prove true, it will house a Nvidia Tegra platform with an ARM CPU, a 10.1-inch multitouch screen that support HD, and much more.

  (Posted in Crave by Brian Barrett)

• Chinese author plans lawsuit over Google Books

  Google scanned a book of a prominent Chinese author into the Google Books library without explicit permission, according to a report, and will face a lawsuit in China.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• High-tech movie battle: Which 3D glasses are best?

  Glasses for 3D viewing come in throwaway versions as well as in models costing $50 a pair. Can one become the standard?
  (From The New York Times)

• Report: Apple chooses supplier of tablet displays

  Site known for reporting Apple rumors says company has chosen a vendor for displays on its tablet, speculated to be unveiled officially at a late January event.
  • Apple owns iSlate.com--the mystery deepens
  • Will the Apple tablet be a full-fledged computer?

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Mozilla pushes back Firefox 3.6, 4.0 deadlines

  The newest version of the open-source browser won't arrive this year, and a major update might not arrive until 2011. But there are plenty of features coming.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• A real-world test of Google Goggles visual search

  photos CNET's James Martin takes a walk through downtown San Francisco to test out Google's new visual search, currently running on Android devices.

• Smart-grid spending to hit $200 billion by 2015

  Technologies to automate and upgrade the grid will capture most of the $200 billion invested in modernizing electrical power systems, says Pike Research.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Lance Whitney)

• Another holiday blowout for Apple?

  Remarking on Apple's December quarter in a note to investors, a Thomas Weisel Partners analyst says iPhone and iMac sales for the period have been quite strong.

  (Posted in Apple by John Paczkowski, AllThingsD)

• Smartphones shift chipmaking balance of power

  year in review Outside their legal skirmishes, chipmakers in 2009 shifted their focus from PCs to smaller devices, ranging from Netbooks to tablets to iPhones to Droids.

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