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1:25 PM ET, February 22, 2008

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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Facebook - back to the kids?  —  Facebook - it's so over.  That's been the tenor of most of the commentary since Thursday's figures showing a slight dip in Facebook's UK users.  The general feeling is that the kids, with their minute attention spans, have already tired of the social networking site …
Nick Miller / The Age:
$10 chip puts Australia on the fast track  —  A new silicon chip developed in Melbourne is predicted to revolutionise the way household gadgets like televisions, phones and DVD players talk to each other.  —  The tiny five-millimetre-a-side chip can transmit data through a wireless connection …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office  —  This is the perspective of a “skeptical, later early adopter”; the sort of person who Microsoft needs to retain and should have been able to retain easily.  I don't spend time on productivity tools that may at some date make me more productive …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Researchers Find Way to Steal Encrypted Data  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.  —  The technique, which could undermine security software protecting critical data …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft glitch offers up Vista SP1 early  —  Brett Zehr was surprised on Thursday when he saw that his Windows Vista PC had a new update ready: Service Pack 1.  —  The software wasn't supposed to be available until mid-March, however a glitch on Thursday meant that Zehr and some other general users …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps, utilities  —  Check security software before installing  —  Microsoft has admitted that Windows Vista service pack one (SP1) renders useless a number of well-known third party security products.  —  Redmond said in a knowledge base article yesterday that due to …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Star Trek, Twilight Zone, other classics beamed onto 'Net  —  Last spring, CBS announced the creation of the Audience Network, which has become the online home for CBS programming.  Yesterday, the network gave the site a boost with the announcement that it plans to bring some classic shows there.
Discussion: TVover.net
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James Lewin / Podcasting News:
CBS Offering Star Trek On Demand
Discussion: PR Newswire
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Releases iTunes 7.6.1, $0.99 Rental Discounts  —  Apple released iTunes 7.6.1 today through the Mac OS X Software Update.  This maintenance release includes several bug fixes and improves compatibility with Apple TV 2.0.  The included description remains the same as the original 7.6 release:
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Jean Eaglesham / Financial Times:
Whitehall gives ISPs piracy deadline  —  The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films.  —  Britain would be one of the first countries in the world to impose such sanctions.
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BBC:
ISPs could face piracy sanctions
Discussion: DSLreports and Guardian
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
First Look at Silverlight 2  —  Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux.  Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft Fishes in Silicon Valley For New Yahoo Board Members  —  According to a source with knowledge of the situation, as part of the preparation for a possible proxy fight it is preparing to wage against Yahoo, Microsoft has been angling in Silicon Valley for prominent techies to serve on a board it must nominate.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Firefox crosses 500 million download mark  —  Sometime last night, Firefox downloads crossed the 500 million threshold.  —  It's an arbitrary but interesting milestone for the open-source Web browser, whose development is overseen by Mozilla but that's also developed and extended by a large number of outside programmers.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
API for Static Maps  —  For those who don't need all the complexity of Google Maps API or can't use JavaScript in a specific context (for example, in a mobile website), there's a new Static Maps API.  Similar to the recently-launched API for charts, this API lets you generate maps …
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Tom Manshreck / Official Google Maps API Blog:
Google Maps Without the Scripting
Discussion: Googlified and Digital Inspiration
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
TUAW Responds: iPhone LoJack  —  Way back, one of our readers begged for an iPhone LoJack solution.  He wanted his iPhone to “call home” regularly in case of loss or, let's be more realistic, theft.  Over the past week, I finally had a chance to give this request some time, and I put together findme.
InfoWorld:
Hackers turn Google into vulnerability scanner  —  San Francisco - The hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) this week released a tool that turns Google into an automated vulnerability scanner, scouring Web sites for sensitive information such as passwords or server vulnerabilities.
Discussion: The Register, GNUCITIZEN and eWeek
 
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
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Tricia Bishop / Baltimore Sun:
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
LG's 13.3-inch P300 arrives in Europe, Americans beg a little more
Discussion: Electronista
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Joost website has a surge of downtime in February
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 Earlier Items: 
Telco 2.0:
BBC's iPlayer nukes “all you can eat” ISP business model
Reuters:
EU, U.S. vow crackdown on computer counterfeits
Discussion: The Register and Newspond.com
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
NAND and demand: How the chips fall at Apple, Inc.
Discussion: Seeking Alpha and DailyTech
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
MTV bets on a ‘Jackass’ move to the Web
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
EU wants RFID tags turned off
Discussion: Ars Technica
J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek:
Black Hat Conference: Security Researchers Claim To Hack GSM Calls
Discussion: DailyTech, IntoMobile, Engadget and Digg
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