Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Long waits for some Netflix Blu-ray customers  —  If you’re a Netflix customer who’s paying an extra $1 a month to rent movies on Blu-ray, you might have noticed that the discs aren’t being delivered as quickly as DVDs.  —  Josh Lowensohn, one of my colleagues here at CNET News […]

Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Politics Not Pancreas the Reason for Jobs’ Macworld Exit  —  The news that Steve Jobs would not deliver the keynote at this year’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco next month was hardly a surprise to those of us covering this company.  Rumors had been swirling for weeks […]

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Not a rumor: No Steve Jobs keynote at this year’s Macworld — which will be Apple’s last  —  Here’s some big Apple news regarding the upcoming Macworld Expo that’s not a rumor: This will be Apple’s last appearance at Macworld and chief executive Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote.

Daniel / Disqus:
DISQUS and Facebook Connect under the mistletoe  —  Facebook Connect is new technology that allows websites and blogs to plug into the Facebook platform.  This holiday season, Disqus will enable all websites with Disqus-powered comments to easily integrate with Facebook Connect.

Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2008  —  Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 16, 2008  —  Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 17, 2008  —  This is an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin …

Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld  —  Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo.  Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo …

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
NBC’s Samberg: Still King of YouTube  —  Network Turns Blind Eye as Video Racks Up Views  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — NBC is supposed to give all its hit “Saturday Night Live” clips to its online joint venture, Hulu, not YouTube, right?  Well, not always, apparently.

Rick Broida / Crave: The gadget blog:
Get a refurbished iPhone 3G for $149.99 shipped  —  Here’s something you don’t see every day: refurbished iPhones.  Nevertheless, over at AT&T you can score a refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G for $149.99 with free overnight shipping.  (You can get the 16GB model, in either black or white, for […]

Ronen Halevy / BerryReviewBerryReview.com:
HOT!  BlackBerry Virtual OS Running On Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro ScreenCandy - AKA BlackBerry Application Suite  —  We just had some great pictures sent in to us showing a Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro running a virtual BlackBerry OS.  This is what RIM is officially calling …

Ronen Halevy / BerryReview.com:
HOT!  BlackBerry Virtual OS Running On Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro ScreenCandy - AKA BlackBerry Application Suite  —  We just had some great pictures sent in to us showing a Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro running a virtual BlackBerry OS.  This is what RIM is officially calling …