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AFP - AsianWeek, a 30-year-old newspaper for Asian-Americans based in San Francisco, has announced plans to drop its print edition and go online only.

AP - The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008. - [Read more]

AP - The Feb. 17 transition from analog to digital television broadcasts looms and as many as 8 million households are still unprepared, but the government program that subsidizes crucial TV converter boxes is about to run out of money. - [Read more]

AFP - JPG Magazine, a print and Web publication featuring pictures contributed by amateur and professional photographers, is shutting down.

NewsFactor - Apple secured a larger piece of the operating-system pie in December. Mac OS X, which hasnt been a threat to Microsofts Windows operating systems in the past, is gaining traction. - [Read more]

Reuters - For videogame publishers the start of 2009 marks a new phase in gaming with the release of new titles no longer confined to the top holiday sale months but spread throughout the year.

NewsFactor - The latest data from Net Applications indicates that Internet Explorer lost market share in December to browsers from Mozilla and Apple. - [Read more]

AP - Hong Kong stocks jumped 4.6 percent in their first session of 2009, led by Chinese telecom companies after the central government approved licenses for next generation mobile phone services. - [Read more]

CNET - Gadget blogs on New Years Day were aflutter with word that an application called Yellowsn0w was available for those who want to unlock the iPhone 3G. - [Read more]

AP - Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members.

AP - This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise.

AP - Of all the threats to scientific research Wesley Sizemore has stymied over the years, satellites and cell phone towers dont stick in his memory quite like the possessive old hound and its treasured heating pad.

AP - "This song is dedicated to Debbie Harry," flinty-eyed Lisa Hsuan purrs into a microphone on the red-lit stage of Hyperion Tavern. Its a cozy dive where patrons drink Coke and beer from bottles and a fading chandelier dangles overhead.

Reuters - Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down. - [Read more]

CNET - Negotiations between Warner Music Group and YouTube over renewing the licensing agreement for the record labels music videos broke down Friday. Early Saturday, Warner, the third largest record label, removed videos from the Google-owned video site. - [Read more]

AP - The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers access if they ignore repeated warnings.

CNET - A Mac fan with way too much time on his hands may have discovered evidence of new iMacs and Mac Minis coming soon. - [Read more]

InfoWorld - Microsoft is moving forward on two fronts with its MVC (Model View Controller) software development platform for the Web, providing design assistance and readying a release candidate of the technology. - [Read more]

PC World - The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog asked on Friday that Google give users of its search engine the ability to "opt out" of leaving personal data, such as IP addresses, on Googles servers. - [Read more]

Reuters - Older adults might want to take an interest in their grandchildrens video games, if early research on the brain benefits of gaming is correct.