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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 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S. — The number of people who visit Facebook has been leveling off over the past few months in the U.S., and even dipped by about 800,000 individuals in January. According to the latest stats from comScore, Facebook attracted 33.9 million unique visitors …
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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 …
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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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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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 …
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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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.
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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.
Alma Whitten / Google Public Policy Blog:
Are IP addresses personal? — To protect privacy, you first have to identify what data is personal. That's why there has been a lot of discussion in recent months around the world to try to define “personal data” (as it is referred to in Europe), or “personally identifiable information” (as it's called in the U.S.).
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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.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook Headhunter: The Quest for the Golden Geek! — If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is serious about finding a true No. 2 to replace outgoing exec Owen Van Natta and more, then BoomTown has certainly at least two cents to add. — So here is our list of ideas, which include a number of women execs …
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.
Matt Sullivan / Popular Mechanics:
Air-Powered Car Coming to U.S. in 2009 to 2010 at Sub-$18,000, Could Hit 1000-Mile Range — The CityCAT, already being developed in India (bottom left), will be available for U.S. production in three different four-door styles. But it's the radical dual-energy engine …
