Science
 | Daily Beast - China released plans for its space program this week, and the agenda includes building space stations and eventually putting a man on the moon within the next several years. |
 | io9 - NASA's on a mission to uncover the secrets of the Moon's formation, and they'll have to journey to its core to do it. But there wont be any drilling on this expedition. |
 | Chicago Tribune - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Scientists were watching a remote Alaska volcano on Friday, a day after it belched out an ash cloud that quickly dissipated, and officials said airline flights over the region had not been disrupted. |
 | iTWire - Human explorers have ventured onto the Moon, but have aliens also made similar footsteps on the lunar surface? If the recommendation of two scientists is carried out, astronomers may make a search of the Moon for past evidence that aliens have visited ... |
 | Tuscaloosa News - Barbara Dale, left, and Casie Jones watch for birds at the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk on Dec. 17 for the National Audubon Society's 112th Christmas Bird Count. |
Technology
 | Bizcommunity.com - Never a dull moment in the mobile industry and the pace of change and general uptake certainly accelerated in 2011. Here are Vomo's five trends that changed the industry this year. |
 | The Associated Press - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam may block its citizens from using Facebook, but that didn't stop website founder Mark Zuckerberg from vacationing in the communist country. |
 | AFP - BELGRADE - A tyre from seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher's Ferrari has ended up in the hands of a Serbian town mayor. |
 | Reuters India - By Sinead Carew | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless has reversed its decision to charge a $2 fee for telephone and online bill payments, bowing to a storm of criticism from consumers and the US communications regulator. |
 | Investor's Business Daily - By BRIAN DEAGON, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05:16 PM ET Predictions the world will end in December 2012 based on a Mayan calendar seem a bit sensational. |
 | ComicsAlliance - The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) spurred controversy in the comics world recently when a list of companies that support the bill hit the internet and named both Marvel Entertainment and DC Comics parent company Time Warner as pro-SOPA. |
 | CNET - by Eric Mack December 30, 2011 3:21 PM PST Follow @ericcmack Amazon sold millions of Kindles this holiday season, led by the company's first-ever tablet, the Kindle Fire, leaving some analysts wondering if other Android tablets might soon be flavored ... |
 | The Mac Observer - What happens when you mix a nerd's sense of humor with a display iPhone 4S in a shop not necessarily known for its technical prowess? |
 | Reuters UK - By Jim Finkle | Boston (Reuters) - Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of email addresses belonging to subscribers of private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc along with thousands of customer ... |
 | Technorati (blog) - When you have a social network which is growing at the rate of 625000 a day the world may well seem to be your oyster. For Google, right now the prospect of hitting 400 million users by the end of 2012 certainly seems like a possibility. |
 | PCWorld - I used to discover new content via Google. Now I find it using Facebook and Twitter. And millions of others are doing it too. By Dan Tynan, ITworld I have to admit it: I get a queasy voyeuristic feeling in my gut when I see what my friends are reading ... |
 | Business Review Canada - BlackBerry has fallen behind in the global smartphone market and insiders (including RIM employees) have voiced concern. Could a PR boost save RIM's market share? |
 | MTV.com (blog) - Andriasang brings news of a precipitous drop in hardware sales as the new handheld falls behind both the 3DS and the PSP. In its first week on Japanese shelves, the Playstation Vita had a respectable debut with 325000 units sold at retail—not shabby at ... |
 | Written by  ZDNet (blog) - By Emil Protalinski | December 30, 2011, 2:23pm PST Summary: Facebook has over 300 million monthly active mobile app users, according to a new report. |
 | CNET - by Kent German December 30, 2011 12:01 PM PST Follow @KentGerman For a slow holiday news week, there's been plenty of chatter over the last few days about Windows Phone 7. It all started Tuesday when several tech blogs posted editorials on why ... |
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