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What Are Your Predictions for 2012? [OPEN THREAD] (Mashable)

Mashable – With just over one day left until 2012, the Internet is chock full of digital thought leaders sharing their predictions for the coming year. Now, we want to know: What do you think will be the biggest tech and social media trends of 2012?

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Reports say ‘Cyber Monday’ top online shopping day (AP)

AP – Online shoppers spent record amounts on the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, making it the biggest online shopping day in history.

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Coldplay keeps ‘Mylo Xyloto’ off streaming plans (AP)

AP – British band Coldplay is withholding its latest album, “Mylo Xyloto,” from all-you-can-listen streaming services such as Spotify and Rhapsody — making it the biggest band yet to express reservations about a system that pays artists a fraction of a penny every time someone listens to a song.

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".brands" approach with Internet name shake-up (Reuters)

Reuters – Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved.

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Data usage spurs carrier caps, innovative products and new laws (Appolicious)

Appolicious – We sure love our smartphones. These web-connected, app-riddled devices are connecting us with more information than we can handle, and according to a recent Nielsen report, mobile data usage is growing faster than ever. Telecom Research & Insights senior manager Don Kellog writes in the NielsenWire blog that monthly data use grew 89 percent to 435MB in the first quarter this year, over the same quarter last year.

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Data usage spurs carrier caps, innovative products and new laws
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British Library, Google in deal to digitize books (AP)

AP – A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available online in a deal between Google and the British Library.

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Amazon Challenges Apple With New Mac App Store (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – Even before a court decides whether Amazon.com can sell apps for Android devices and call it an app store, the biggest U.S. online retailer opened a second front this week by offering downloadable software for Apple’s Macintosh computers.

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Amazon Challenges Apple With New Mac App Store
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Skype says some users had problems signing in (AP)

AP – Internet phone service Skype says a small percentage of its 170 million users have been unable to sign in to its service, a problem that it expects to fix with a software update.

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Sony yet to fully secure its networks: expert (Reuters)

Reuters – Sony Corp’s computer networks remain vulnerable to attack three weeks after the company learned that it had been victim of one of the biggest data breaches in history, according to an Internet security expert.

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Sony may face global legal scrutiny over breach (Reuters)

Reuters – Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it belatedly revealed one of the biggest online data breaches ever.

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Sony may face global legal scrutiny over breach
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