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1. Flickr Hits Two Billion Photo Uploads - Mashable.com

   Two billion photo uploads on Flickr. That’s a lot of f****n’ photos. You’ll be glad to know that Flickr staffers have spent the past weeks placing bets on the exact date and time for passing the milestone, which went down sometime on Sunday.

2. FCC Rules Could Limit Comcast’s Growth - FreePress.Net

   Under the Federal Cable Communications Act of 1984, the FCC may enact “any additional rules necessary to provide diversity of information sources” if cable is available to 70% of households and 70% of those households subscribe.

3. Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo - AppleInsider.Com

   The system will represent the first Mac to utilize the solid-state memory in order to improve power efficiency and facilitate near instantaneous boot times, plus the adoption of a new breed of 13-inch LCD display panels.

4. Intel to Unveil Chips for Improving Video Quality on the Web - FreePress.Net

   Intel plans to announce a family of microprocessor chips on Monday that it says will speed the availability of high-definition video via the Internet, which would first be used in servers and high-end desktops that compress the video.

5. Orange Announce World’s First Solar Powered Bluetooth headset on Product Reviews Net

   Orange has just announced that it is selling the world’s first ever solar-powered Bluetooth headset. If the headset is fully charged, it will work in darkness for up to nine hours at a time, or be on standby for up to 200 hours.

6. BBC to launch music podcasts: with material from previous programs - ProductReviews.Net

   The BBC is to launch yet another new podcast service, this time they are setting up a music podcast and is to feature 30 sec clips of a range of compilations from Asian, dance, folk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, punk and rhythm and blues music.

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1. Leona Lewis’s album trouncing Spice Girls 4 to 1 - Uk.News.Launch.Yahoo.Com

   Copies of her album, Spirit, are flying off the shelves across the UK. The X Factor winner is on course to sell around 100,000 copies by Monday’s end, according to industry estimates. The Spice Girls are managing just a quarter of that figure with their G

2. Microsoft One-Ups Apple’s IPod Engraving - PhysOrg.Com

   The company will also offer 20 smaller graphic designs inspired by classic tattoo art, leaving room for three lines of text chosen by the customer. Those who choose no design can have up to five lines of text engraved.

3. Microsoft hires supercomputing guru, Dan Reed - ComputerWorld.Com

   Reed will report to Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s senior vice president of research, who has said that Microsoft needs to make sure its software works on multicore systems used by enterprises and in the data centers of large service providers.

4. Two Thirds of O2 Custumers are from other networks. - iPhoneWorld.Ca

   Apple/O2 is reporting that iPhone is the “fastest-selling”, with “tens of thousands” of items sold since its launch on Friday. Two thirds of the users are from other network operators. O2 had stocks of 140 iPhone’s per store.

5. Australian Man Pirated ‘Simpsons’, after recording it on his cell phone, fined Au$888 - PhysOrg.Com

   “It would appear that this young man had the sophistication of a dead fish,” Stewart said. “I have sat and spent time with this young man, … and I am quite satisfied that he had no idea what he was doing.”

6. MySpace, Facebook ad plans violate privacy, groups tell FTC - ComputerWorld.Com

   “MySpace and Facebook are like the digital data equivalent of Fort Knox for Madison Avenue marketers,” he said. “It is a kind of one-stop data shop for marketers. They know your interests, your politics and what movies you like.”

7. New Method Converts Organic Matter To Hydrogen Fuel Easily And Efficiently - ScienceDaily.Com

   “This process produces 288 percent more energy in hydrogen than the electrical energy that is added to the process,” says Logan. Water hydrolysis, a standard method for producing hydrogen, is only 50 to 70 percent efficient.

8. Ustream.TV Experiences Significant Business Growth - TVover.net

   Since launching its public Beta in March of this year, Ustream.TV has experienced significant growth in only seven months, adding 80,000 active broadcasters, streamed 5,000+ hours per day and one million viewer hours per month.

9. World’s First HDTV Image Of ‘Earth-rise’ Over Moon - ScienceDaily.Com

   The KAGUYA successfully shot high-definition images of the Earth-rise showing an impressive image of the blue Earth which was the only floating object in pitch-dark space, from an altitude of about 100 km above the moon.

10. 3,200-Foot Building Would Double World’s Tallest - Extremetech.Com

    Visitors to the Computex show in Taipei are tempted to take an elevator up to the top floor of Taipei 101, currently the world’s largest building at just under 1,670 feet. But a new design could more than double it.

11. Is the world ready for a 1TB iPod? - TheRegister.Co.Uk

    Semi-Coherent Computing - Episode 10 - We’re barreling toward a world where 1TB files fly make their way across the internet, while devices like the iPod prepare to handle your favorite 267,000 songs and movies.

12. Diversity attacks Top500 supercomputer list - TheRegister.Co.Uk

    Around 320 ran on Intel’s Xeon processors, 79 systems using AMD’s Opteron chip. IBM’s Power chip accounted for 61 boxes, and Intel’s Itanic processor in 19 computers. Linux was running on a 85% of the boxes.

13. Reno 911: World’s largest reboot underway - TheRegister.Co.Uk

    Supercomputing 07 went through what could be the world’s largest, collective reboot of all time. At about noon today, the immense amount of hardware here in Reno killed the power system and then killed it again a few seconds later. Lights went out.

14. Apple Attacks Windows Vista in Three New TV Ads - DigitalJournal.Com

    Three new Apple ads promoting Macs and bashing Windows Vista appeared on Apple’s website recently. “Get a Mac” ad campaign in time for the holiday shopping season, Apple is directly attacking Microsoft’s misfortunes with Vista.

15. Do you know publishers only make 1 dollar per game? - DiggingTheWeb.com

    Do you know that when Konami publishes a game like MGS, they only make 1 dollar per game? In this special segment, we take a look at where your dollars go! We’ll break it down for you in a nice pie.

16. World famous Internet cheese up for auction - Reuters.Com

    The 44 pound cheese that has attracted 1.65 million viewer hits on www.cheddarvision.tv since it first went on the web late last year has nearly completed its 12-month maturation and will be ready to eat by Christmas, the owners said.

17. Did “AmeriTV” Really Raise $45M? - PR Stunt, Hoax - Mashable.Com

    Well, turns out that the AmeriTV announcement was a hoax. With identical quotes, an identical funding amount, and an identical description of the service, we’re all wondering exactly what’s behind this.

18. 2,500 Marvel Comics Come Online Today - Mashable.Com

    Over 2,500 issues of various origin back-stories will be released tomorrow at the site, with 20 issues more being released each week subsequently. Much like Hulu, though, comics will only be viewable through the site’s web viewer.

19. China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone in China - InfoWorld.Com

    However, China Mobile is also a member of Google’s Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of technology and service companies that will develop products based on Google’s Android mobile phone platform, which will be a competitor for the iPhone.

20. Internet site helps fans take control of English club - Reuters.Com

    Soccer fans are set to share ownership of English minor league club Ebbsfleet United after a deal was reached in principle for a $1.45 million takeover. Each of the 20,000 fans paid 35 pounds ($72.42) to community Web site MyFootballClub.co.uk

21. GrubHub.Com - I’m Hungry: Databases: Restaurants: Chicago and San Francisco - ResourceShelf .Com

    Databases: Food: Chicago and San Francisco: GrubHub Searchable database containing over 15,000 menus of restaurants that deliver in Chicago and San Francisco. GrubHub recently raised $1.1 million in private equity in its first round of financing.