谷歌和Verizon提出了一个他们认为合理的网络中立计划，两个不同的组织试图给Google Wave注入新的活力，iPhone在Verizon预测器上提出了强烈的要求，比尔·盖茨认为你的孙子孙女们将上在线学校。

• A joint policy proposal for an open Internet Google lays out what its much-covered meeting with Verizon was all about: "a suggested legislative framework for c***ideration by lawmakers." Some would say it doesn't look that great, especially on the wireless front. [Google Public Policy Blog]
• Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. Since Google's already scanned a whole bunch of the world's books, they took a stab at calculating the sum total of printed tomes. Wired's Epicenter blog explains their math. [Inside Google Books]
• Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox Firefox looks to pick up the same kind of quiet, upon-restart updating that makes Chrome more widely secured. [Computerworld]
• Skype Files for IPO And if the internet communicati*** service picks up all the $100 million they're after, expect them to start finding revenues beyond SkypeOut credits. [GigaOM]
• Why The Verizon iPhone Rumors are True-CDMA iPhone Due in January This claim (approximately No. 4,326) claims to be more solid, based on a sudden supply chain demand for CDMA chips—the kind that power Verizon and Sprint phones, not AT&T. [TechCrunch]
• The Movement to "Save Google Wave" Think Google's future-forward messaging and collaboration service died too early a death? Head to SaveGoogleWave.com to buy a button, Like on Facebook, and otherwise show your support for the public cloud. [ReadWriteCloud]
• Google Wave lives on — as Novell Pulse If the users can't keep Google Wave alive, server firm Novell might do so—just in a very corporate IT fashion. [Download Squad]
• Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web Gates' belief that online materials will provide the premiere education experience of the future is notable, given his foundation's own interest in standard in-school education. [TechCrunch]