On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

Digicel was finally granted a licence on 17 December 2007 and plans to start operations in the BVI sometime in 2008.

Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.

* Programming: Principles and Practice Using C ++ by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Professional ; 1 edition ( December 29, 2008 ); ISBN 0-321-54372-1

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

In December 2008, Power Fasteners agreed to pay $ 16 million to the state to settle manslaughter charges.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on December 12, 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

$ 7. 401 billion ( December 2008 )

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

11. 5 % ( 31 December 2008 )

15. 6 % ( 31 December 2008 )

$ 21. 58 billion ( 31 December 2008 )

$ 26. 57 billion ( 31 December 2008 )

In December 2005, GBC started internet streaming of its radio service, and in 2009 the daily Newswatch programme became available as video on demand.

On December 14, 2010, in United States v. Warshak, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his emails and that the government violated Warshak's Fourth Amendment rights by compelling his internet service provider to turn over his emails without first obtaining a warrant based upon probable cause.

On December 17, 2006, CANTAT-3 services were disrupted due to damage to the submarine cable, resulting in loss of service to hundreds of thousands of users connecting via internet and media providers ( Síminn, Vodafone and Hive ).

* On 27 December 2007, Xinwen Lianbo aired a report about the wide and easy availability of explicit content on the internet.

* December 21, 2007-Liroy's double album Grandpaparapo ( Powrót Króla ) is released exclusively and only at internet as a limited edition of 3000 copies.

In December 2008, Mr Glasheen advertised on an internet dating site for a female companion to join him and his dog living on the island.

As pointed out by internet news outlet Crikey if $ 100 million had been invested in the Australian sharemarket in September 1974 through a balanced portfolio of the top 200 companies, that portfolio would be worth a lot more than $ 6. 9 billion in December 2005, possibly as much as $ 11 billion

AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on December 15, 1995 at < nowiki > altavista. digital. com </ nowiki >.

* Coke family tree-this, too has disappeared from the internet ( 16 December 2011 )

* Microradio. org Via internet archive, accessed December 28, 2005

David Warthen, born on December 10, 1957 was one of the founders of Ask. com, an internet search engine.

Official photos of the W 212 were leaked on the internet on 9 December 2008 ahead of its 2009 Geneva Motor Show unveiling.

In December 2003, he founded Stop censoring us, a blog to watch the situation of internet censorship in Iran.

In December, 2009, Ozoliņš was voted as 2009 most popular sportsman in Latvia by internet voters.

Even after the shut down of WorldSpace services in India in December 2008, Sai Global Harmony continued to be broadcast over the satellite radio system, and gradually began to expand its services via internet streaming.

As of December 1, 2010, time limited, ad supported Wi-Fi internet service provided by BOLDStreet Wireless is available terminal wide.

In December 2007, drawings were leaked on the internet of Sentinel Prime's vehicle appearance in the Transformers Animated television series.

In December 2010 Shaw filed complaints with the CRTC to have competing internet video services such as Netflix classified as broadcasters under Canadian law.

The domain. tp was officially launched in December 1997 by connect. ie, an internet service provider based in Dublin, Ireland, in cooperation with the East Timorese authorities in absentia, while East Timor was under Indonesian military control.

* December 11, 1998: NTK launch STAND. org. uk ( now defunct ), a UK campaign group lobbying for fair UK internet policy.

It ceased FM broadcasting on April 15, 2011 after its licence was revoked on January 28, 2011 and continued as an internet radio outlet until it ceased operations on December 26, 2011.

CKLN. fm ceased operations on December 26, 2011 with most of its programs and volunteers moving to Radio Regent, a new internet radio service owned and operated by Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre and unaffiliated with CKLN Radio Inc.

* In December 2011, Vilnius city municipality unveiled a new internet portal vilnius. lt with e-democracy tools available.

A six-inch scale DC Universe Classics figure of B ' wana Beast was released in the " Justice in the Jungle " two-pack with Animal Man in December 2009 as a MattyCollector. com internet exclusive.