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1:55 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 …
Mat Lu / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iTunes Store adds 99 cent weekly movie rental specials  —  Along with the iTunes update we noted earlier, Apple has introduced a new weekly special movie rental for 99 cents.  Macrumors reports that each Thursday Apple will make available a new movie at the special price, good until the following Monday.
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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:
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
Reuters:
Britain threatens ISPs with possible piracy legislation
Discussion: Ars Technica and WebProNews
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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
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.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple, Starbucks sued over custom music gift cards  —  A Utah couple acting as their own attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Apple and Starbucks over the retailers' recent “Song of the Day” promotion, which offers Starbucks customers a iTunes gift card for a complimentary, pre-selected song download.
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.
Royal Pingdom:
Joost website has a surge of downtime in February  —  Since February 8, the Joost website has had outages almost on a daily basis.  Some short, some up to an hour long.  With a full week left of February, the website has already been unavailable for a total of five hours and ten minutes this month.
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Mashable!
Darren Murph / Engadget:
LG's 13.3-inch P300 arrives in Europe, Americans beg a little more  —  As expected, South Koreans got their hands around LG's stylish P300 a good while back, and while Americans just knew it was headed stateside in short order, it looks like Europe has received the nod for second dibs.
Discussion: Electronista and Gadgetell
 
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
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Facebook Headhunter: The Quest for the Golden Geek!
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
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Discussion: DSLreports and Computerworld
InfoWorld:
Hackers turn Google into vulnerability scanner
Discussion: The Register, GNUCITIZEN and eWeek
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
SXSW 2008 on BitTorrent: 3.5 GB of Free Music
Discussion: Egregious Thoughts
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
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
Ryan Kairer / PalmInfocenter.com:
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
TUAW Responds: iPhone LoJack