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USATODAY.com - Video games will get the Hollywood treatment on a weekly series devoted to airing trailers for new games. GameTrailers TV, which premieres next month on Spike TV, also will include industry news, interviews and features. Link To Original Article

AP - AOL is providing the newest communications channel on Google. Link To Original Article

AP - News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group has acquired Beliefnet, a Web site catering to faith communities, in a move designed to boost online marketing and distribution of Fox's film and TV programs. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Saying it went too far in its pursuit of profit, the popular Internet hangout Facebook Inc. is allowing its 55 million users to permanently turn off a new marketing tool that tracks their activities at other Web sites. Link To Original Article

Reuters - It isn't quite a match made in heaven, but a U.S.-based online dating company turned to ritual prayers and a Shinto priest to help boost its business in Japan. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Starting immediately, AT&T customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker - think smartphones, e-mail and music downloading. And they don't have to sign a contract. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - When it comes to cellular networks, "open" is clearly the new black. Hot on the heels of the recent announcement that Verizon would open its network to third-party devices and applications, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told BusinessWeek that Google's open-source mobile operating system, codenamed Android, is part of the company's future. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft said it plans to conduct field trials in January of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop. Link To Original Article

IBM has come up with a technology that could one day let different cores on a processor exchange signals with pulses of light, rather than electrons, a change that could lead to faster and far more energy efficient chips. The device, known as a silicon Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator--converts electrical signals ... Link To Original Article

Facebook founder issues mea culpa, cancer fights look to virtual nanobots for help, and is Apple making claims it can't back up? Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized on the social-networking site's blog Wednesday for a notorious advertising feature that made the online purchases of its members public. Link To Original Article

Fine-tuning ENIAC. J. Presper Eckert (the man in the foreground turning a knob) and John Mauchly (center) designed ENIAC to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells. The machine didn't debut until February 1946, after the end of World War II, but it did launch the computer revolution. (Credit: Computer ... Link To Original Article

Security experts claim to have cracked the protocol for securing some of Microsoft's wireless keyboards, potentially allowing keystroke logging. Link To Original Article

Microsoft's Live Labs, a standalone product research group, released on Wednesday Volta (download it from CNET Download.com), a development tool designed to make it easier to partition an application's component pieces across a network. The problem that Microsoft researchers are trying to address is the difficulty of ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - CompTIA survey shows that HDTV and game consoles top many holiday wish lists in 2007. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Patients today are less likely to bump into drug sales representatives at a doctor's office as pharmaceutical companies adopt cheaper technologies and more discreet ways to pitch drugs. Link To Original Article

AP - Microsoft Corp. is pulling back from a system that disables programs on users' computers if it suspects the software is pirated, opting instead for a gentler approach based on nagging alerts. Link To Original Article

AP - T-Mobile can sell Apple's sought-after iPhone exclusively locked to its own service, a German court ruled Tuesday, reversing an injunction last month requiring the company to sell an unlocked version in Europe's biggest economy. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - Check schemes are spreading across the USA as scamsters exploit the popularity of online auction, dating and social-networking sites to find victims. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - France Telecom said on Wednesday that its Orange division had already sold close to 30,000 iPhones in France since its launch there last week. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Score one for Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile. Europe's largest telephone service provider emerged victorious on Tuesday in the iPhone-locking suit that Vodafone filed against it in Germany. A German court has ruled that Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile does, in fact, have the right to block Apple iPhone buyers from using the mobile device on competing wireless networks. Link To Original Article

Who are the people charged with the task of keeping code secure at Microsoft? They're risk takers, whether donning costumes or swimming with sharks. Link To Original Article

PC World - Red Hat unveils software that combines messaging, real-time and grid capabilities for enterprises that need an OS that can process messages and transactions at lightning speed. Link To Original Article

Also, a study shows divorces are bad for the environment; and tech predictions for 2008. Link To Original Article