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• China Video Site Youku Raises $40 Million for Expansion Chinese video-streaming Web site Youku.com raised $40 million in new equity funding as it looks to expand its popular service.
• Lab-Tested: The 10 Best 40- and 42-Inch HDTVs For each of these HDTVs, the PCWorld Labs evaluated the image quality, as well as the extra features offered and how easy the model was to use. Here are the results.
• The Ghosts of Christmas Games Past Where can you bowl with elves, battle evil snowmen, and take your shots at flying turkey helicopters? Only in these 12 Christmas games of yesteryear.
• FujiFilm FinePix F70EXR Fujifilm's FinePix F70EXR is about as compact as cameras get, yet it somehow serves up a 10X-optical-zoom lens (spanning from 27mm to 270mm), dual image...
• The Macalope Weekly: Histrionics Lesson It was a week of making mountains out of molehills, as jokes became dire threats and Apple held its customers hostage by making nice things they like to buy...
• Cybercrooks Target File-Sharing Networks Security experts at Kaspersky Labs warn that cybercriminals are shifting their focus from worms and spams to file-sharing services.
• Tough Times for Chip Makers Gartner analysts project semiconductor sales will show a 11.4% decline in 2009.
• Privacy Worries on Facebook? Just Wait A CMU researcher warns that technology needs to strike a balance between privacy concerns and useful data mining.
• Avatar: Good News for 3D TV and Blu-ray? The electronics industry and Hollywood are both eager to extend new cinema effects to home theater.
• Google, Microsoft Bing Deals Benefit Twitter Most prolific tweeter sees partnerships as a needed boost to the microblogging site.
• 7 Secret Features in Windows 7 From streaming Netflix movies in Windows Media Center to eye candy desktop themes to a calculator that does a lot more than arithmetic, here's a showcase of cool but unappreciated Windows 7 features.
• CrossGL SnapDraw Makes It a Snap to Capture and Work With Images Take screenshots, manipulate them, and add magnifications and annotations to them with CrossGL SnapDraw
• Verizon ETF Policies Validate Why We Need the FCC Verizon defended the doubling of its early termination fees (ETF) in a response to the FCC, but the response just reinforces why the FCC needs to be involved.
• 10 Essential iPhone Apps for the Holidays The holidays can be a challenge: Shopping, planning, parties--and plenty of family time. These ten apps for the iPhone and iPod touch can help the season go more smoothly. Pass the eggnog!
• Rackspace Outage Has Limited Impact Rackspace experienced an outage, but the impact was relatively small--far from a cloud or Internet outage.