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U.S. shoppers less than merry after online glitches (Reuters)

Reuters – Tom Nenon, a philosophy professor at the University of Memphis, is vexed with his online shopping experience at Best Buy, a sentiment shared by other U.S. Internet shoppers this holiday season.

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FCC Approves AT&T’s Spectrum Deal with Qualcomm (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – Seeking to expand mobile broadband deployments throughout the United States, the FCC has given AT&T the green light to begin using the 700MHz spectrum licenses the carrier purchased from Qualcomm for $1.925 billion in December 2010.

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University Spends $3,000 on XXX Domain Names to Save Face (Mashable)

Mashable – The University of Kansas has bought .xxx domain names, such as www.KUgirls.xxx and www.KUnurses.xxx, hoping to prevent its name from falling into the hands of pornographers. The school, as well as dozens of others, has reportedly purchased $3,000 worth of “.xxx” domain names since they went on sale. The flagship state university plans to sit on the websites and do nothing with them, the AP reports.

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How to Increase Facebook Engagement Using Custom Page Tabs (Mashable)

Mashable – Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump, and works for the Global Strategic Management Institute. The year 2011 brought exciting changes to social media marketing, especially when it came to Facebook.

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To thwart porn, colleges are buying up .xxx sites (AP)

AP – The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as http://www.KUgirls.xxx and http://www.KUnurses.xxx. But not because it’s planning a Hot Babes of Kansas site or an X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of the Land of Aaahs

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HP opens webOS mobile software to others (Reuters)

Reuters – Hewlett Packard Co has decided to open its webOS mobile operating system to developers and companies, potentially taking on Google Inc’s free Android platform that is popular with handset makers.

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YouTube Video Prompts Calls for UC Davis Chancellor’s Resignation (Mashable)

Mashable – The Faculty Association at the University of California, Davis, is calling for the resignation of chancellor Linda Katehi after a YouTube video surfaced showing police pepper spraying passive Occupy Wall Street protesters. “The Chancellor’s authorization of the use of police force to suppress the protests by students and community members speaking out on behalf of our university and public higher education generally represents a gross failure of leadership,” the Davis Faculty Association wrote in a blog post on Saturday. The post goes on to criticize Katehi for “effectively authorizing [the police's] use of excessive force against peaceful UCD student protestors”

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