1. GE, Comcast Complete Deal Over NBC Universal: Source  permalink

GE, Comcast Complete Deal Over NBC Universal: Source
Www.cnbc.com

In the popular holiday song "The 12 Days of Christmas," the cost of gifts - from the 12 drummers drumming to a partridge in a pear tree - is quite pricey.

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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable! :   Comcast to Buy NBC Universal

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CNBC: GE, Comcast in final stages of NBC Universal deal What Will Comcast-NBC Mean for Hulu?   —  It’s taken several months , but it looks like the deal is done: Comcast is buying NBC Universal from GE. Well, at least 51% of it. While the deal still has to pass regulatory hurdles, it seems likely that The Tonight Show and The Office are going to be part of Comcast’s vast cable operation and its own array of TV programming that ...

2. Google and paid content  permalink

Google and paid content
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As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make their subscription content discoverable. Today we're ...

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Google News Makes A Concession To Whining Publishers: Only First Five Clicks Are Free Is YouTube Ready for Primetime? Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee.   —  Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, multiple sources tell me. YouTube already lets users watch a smattering of TV shows for free, with advertising. Now it envisions something similar to what Apple and Amazon already offer: First-run shows, without commercials, for $1. ...

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Google News Makes A Concession To Whining Publishers: Only First Five Clicks Are Free Google is phasing out Gears, phasing in HTML5   —  Filed under: Business , Developer , Web services , Google Google Gears has been pushing web applications forward since 2007, allowing them to use local data and run offline. Although Gears is still relevant, Google has announced plans to let it fade away in favor of emerging HTML5 features that do the same things. The big difference is that ...

3. Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Top 10 Perform  permalink

Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Top 10 Perform
Jason Hughes / TV Squad

(S06E19) What an amazing and jam-packed night of dance. With ten couple dances and ten solos, it was wall-to-wall performances. Amazingly, almost every single one of the performances was excellent. Honestly, I am so impressed with this entire Top 10, I can't say enough good things about them. Sonya Tayeh finally blew me away as a choreographer. ...

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Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Top 10 Perform Review: Scrubs - Our First Day of School   —  (S09E01) As much as I want to treat Scrubs: Med School as a new series, let's face it: The show is listed everywhere as being Scrubs ' ninth season. So that's the way I'm going to treat it until told otherwise. Sound good to you folks? Anyway, my preview of this new iteration of Scrubs pretty much gave the entire setup, so we can mercifully skip ...

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Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Top 10 Perform Review: Scrubs - Our Drunk Friend   —  (S09E02) Here is where we see glimpses of what Scrubs: Med School could be. Lucy gets too involved with a case. Denise opens up -- well, at least as much as she can open up -- to Drew. Cole being Cole. Cox overseeing everything with his lit-on-fire rantings. But they're just glimpses. As in the premiere, the more memorable stuff was from the old ...

4. McAfee lists the most dangerous Web domains  permalink

Melissa Rohlin / L.A.

McAfee is releasing a list today that shows which international Web domains are the most perilous. The anti-virus software developer analyzed more than 27 million country and generic Web domains for browser exploits, phishing, excessive pop-ups and malicious downloading. The study found that Cameroon (.cm)�has the riskiest Web domain, with 36.7% ...

5. Accel Partners  permalink

Accel Partners
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Accel Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices located in Silicon Valley, London, and India. They typically make multi-stage investments in internet technology companies.

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6. SD Memory Cards Hit 300MBps with Serial Transfer, New Pin  permalink

SD Memory Cards Hit 300MBps with Serial Transfer, New Pin
Techon.nikkeibp.co.jp

The next-generation Secure Digital (SD) memory card standard, SD Specification Version 4.00 (provisional name), is slated for completion in spring 2010, and may well feature a new dedicated pin for high-speed data transfer (Table 1). The plan is to use low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) to boost the max data transfer rate on the read read/ ...

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7. Manufacturers redirecting R&D on declining GPS device orders?  permalink

Manufacturers redirecting R&D on declining GPS device orders?
Thomas Ricker / Engadget

If you enjoy the decimation of an industry as much as Google does then you're going to love the latest rumor sourced from DigiTimes ' manufacturing moles. According to the Taiwanese rumor rag, personal navigation device R&D teams at the manufacturing powerhouses of Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai) and Wistron have been shifted to other devices in the ...

8. Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes After Dev Shows Craig His New Mashup  permalink

Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes After Dev Shows Craig His New Mashup
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Developers take note: if you've got a mashup built off of Craigslist's data, don't even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that's the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked both his mashup and every single project built on Yahoo Pipes a few days after a friendly Email exchange he ...

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Craigslist Blocks Oodle   —  When I wrote about Oodle a while back, I wondered if the sources of its listings would ever get cranky (Oodle scrapes classified listings all over the web, then creates a vertical search engine). I never thought the first grump would be craigslist - but indeed, the company has asked Oodle to stop scraping its listings. It feels counter to the ...

9. VIZIO had a better weekend than you, less tequila  permalink

VIZIO had a better weekend than you, less tequila
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Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.

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Time Warner wants to know if it should get tough about rate hikes   —  Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.

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Engadget HD Podcast 165   —  Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.

10. FTC Guidelines on Blogger Disclosure, Have You Done Something About it?  permalink

Arnold Zafra / The Blog Herald

Just a gentle reminder to everyone, especially if you do product reviews on your blogs that today,  FTC’s new regulation covering blogger disclosure takes into effect.  If you haven’t done so yet, it’s either you’re playing hardball or you’re not a celebrity blogger or endorser popular enough for the FTC notice ...

11. WebOS 1.3.2 out for Palm Pixi while Pre looks on with jealousy  permalink

WebOS 1.3.2 out for Palm Pixi while Pre looks on with jealousy
Ross Miller / Engadget

Looks like Palm's first Pixi update has an air of exclusivity to it. WebOS 1.3.2 is being released to the somewhat washed, non-slider masses, while Pre owners are so far left toying with 1.3.1 . Not a huge loss, it seems, as no one is yet certain what this update does. Still, if you got a Pixi, look for the over-the-air warning lights to go on. [ ...

12. TerreStar Genus satphone gets beamed into an FCC lab  permalink

TerreStar Genus satphone gets beamed into an FCC lab
Chris Ziegler / Engadget

That projected Q1 2010 availability window for AT&T's first dual-mode satphone (and first satphone, period, for that matter) is looking pretty dang obtainable now that Elektrobit -- the device's manufacturer -- has secured FCC approval. As you can tell from the laboratory mugshot here, TerreStar's Genus is a pretty unassuming-looking Windows ...

13. Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts  permalink

Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts
Om Malik / GigaOM

In February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The two talked [...]

14. Put your Flip videos on the big screen  permalink

Put your Flip videos on the big screen
Erica Ogg / Crave

Flipshare TV is a system that wirelessly streams Flip video clips to a TV screen. Updated software will send video to iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Android phones. Originally posted at Circuit Breaker

15. Bill Lawrence  permalink

Bill Lawrence
Www.bullz-eye.com

Bill Lawrence has always been one the hardest working men in television, but these days he’s on the verge of running himself ragged: not only is his new series, “Cougar Town,” picking up steam, but his beloved “Scrubs” is returning for a new season. Yes, that’s right: it used to be that we were hearing a death knell for the series ...

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16. Italian police prang crime fighting Lamborghini  permalink

Italian police prang crime fighting Lamborghini
Honeyman / Dvorak Uncensored

Careless driver writes off Italian police’s prized Lamborghini – Guardian — This would never have happened to Hasslehoff. When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals. A team of elite ...

17. Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo  permalink

Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

Aravo, a SAAS supplier chain management tool just raised a whopping $27 million in Series D funding led by Cisco, with other investors participating. In addition, Cisco's web meeting and collaboration platform, WebEx, will be integrated with Aravo's Supplier Information Management (SIM) to facilitate real-time collaboration between buyers and ...

18. Amazon Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps By 44 Percent  permalink

Amazon Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps By 44 Percent
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!

Cyber Monday data traffic data has officially arrived and it should come as no surprise that Amazon was the top visited retail website, according to Experian Hitwise . In fact, Amazon accounted for 15.53 percent of all Cyber Monday traffic to the top 500 retail sites, and saw a whopping 44 percent increase in visits when compared to 2008 traffic.

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Amazon Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps By 44 Percent Amazon CTO Vogels: Cloud computing an option for disaster recovery   —  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says that enterprises are increasingly using Amazon Web Services for disaster recovery.

19. Salon enters the world of e-commerce with 'curated' stuff  permalink

Salon enters the world of e-commerce with 'curated' stuff
David Colker / L.A.

Want your very own 7-inch by 7-inch indoor lawn? Now you can get it from Salon.com. Credit: Salon.com. The pioneering online magazine Salon, which debuted in 1995, opened its first e-commerce venture this week. Salon Store offers readers of the famously liberal site the opportunity to buy selected books, gadgets, household items and novelties. ...

20. Charles Gibson to sign off Dec. 18  permalink

Charles Gibson to sign off Dec. 18
Www.variety.com

ABC announced Gibson's departure date on Tuesday. The anchor, who has been at the helm of "World News" (formerly known as "World News Tonight") since May 2006, announced his intentions to depart in September.

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