Daily TMT round up

Technology

Yahoo! loses more ground to Google and Bing
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2255230/yahoo-loses-ground-google-bing

Intel sheds light on its plans for CES
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2255228/intel-sheds-light-plans-ces

Amazon's Kindle reader breaks monthly sales record
http://www.reuters.com/article/

Media

Pete Cashmore, The man behind Mashable
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/6835125/The-man-behin
d-Mashable.html

Google 'in talks' over Google netbook
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/17/googlenetbook/

Standard owner closes in on The Independent
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/

Telecoms

Wi-Fi operator may quit UK over wireless tax
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/12/17/239764/wi-fi-operator-
may-quit-uk-over-wireless-tax.htm

Blackberry outage blankets North America
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/blackberry_north_america_outage/

In mobile phone journalism, Africa is ahead of the West
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/dec/17/digital-media-mobilephon
e-usage-africa-leapfroging-ushahidi-swift-river