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Matt Sucherman / The Official Google Blog:
Serious threat to the web in Italy — In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police.
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Reuters:
Google execs convicted in Italy for Down's video — *Video showed bullying of boy with Down's — A Milan court has convicted three Google Inc (GOOG.O) executives for the 2006 transmission of a video showing the bullying of a youth with Down's syndrome, the judge in the case told Reuters on Wednesday.
Craig Grannell / Cult of Mac:
Is Apple Preparing To Add An ‘Explicit’ Section To The App Store? — Over the past few days, Cult of Mac has closely followed Apple's divisive decision to remove “overtly sexual” apps from the App Store. Some apps caught in the purge (such as videogame Daisy Mae and swimwear retailer Simply Beach) …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme” — Two law firms, Beck & Lee from Miami and The Weston Firm in San Diego, have filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court alleging unfair business practices by local business review and rating website operator Yelp.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
YouTube removes original “Rickroll” video due to terms of use violation — UPDATE: YouTube has confirmed the removal was a mistake. For more information and a comment from Rick Astley's manager please see our follow up story. — The Interwebs came together in a collective gasp on Wednesday …
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Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:
YouTube: Rickroll Removal Was a Mistake — Update: It's back! See below. — This morning we reported that YouTube had taken down the famed Rickroll video, breaking the hearts of many an Internet prankser. Well, we contacted YouTube and apparently it was a big ol' mistake.
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Dave McClure / More Startups. More Jobs.:
Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act in Washington, DC — We are thrilled to announce Senators John Kerry (D-MA) & Richard Lugar (R-IN) today introduced The Startup Visa Act in Washington. — The full text of the proposed legislation is here.
Reuters:
Google scraps China leg of Nexus One event: source — BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc has scrapped the China leg of a regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One, in Beijing, its second such move following its threatened pull-out from the country.
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
EU denies Google is under investigation, early evidence appears weak — This morning, despite clearly and pointedly phrased headlines such as this one proclaiming that the European Commission had opened an antitrust investigation into Google, the Commission released a statement this morning saying no such investigation was launched.
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Julia Holtz / European Public Policy Blog:Committed to competing fairly
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Mark Doherty / www.flashmobileblog.com:
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One — It appears that there has been some confusion from the community at large surrounding battery performance. This was caused by my colleague Michael Chaize publishing an amazing video of Flash Player 10.1 demos on Vimeo.
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Andrew Lim / Recombu:Flash might not be a battery hog but Adobe needs to charge its batteries
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPad SDK Support for Front Facing Camera, Camera Flash, Zoom and Video Conferencing — Unfortunately, we already know how this story ends. Apple introduced the iPad in late January and made no mention of a camera - either on the front or back of the device.
Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
This you???? : Phishing attack hits Twitter users — There is another widespread phishing attack hitting users of Twitter today. — Messages asking “This you????” followed by a link are being sent via the system to unsuspecting users. If you click on the link you are taken …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hot And Bothered: Walmart Shutting Down Vudu's Adult Section — When it was announced that retailer Walmart would buy streaming movie startup Vudu a couple days ago, a number of sites wondered what it would mean for Vudu's adult content. Here's what it means: bye bye.
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Site Leaks Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide, MS Demands Takedown Under Copyright Law (UPDATE 3) — Cryptome, a whistleblower site that regularly leaks sensitive documents from governments and corporations, is in hot water again: this time, for publishing Microsoft's “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook …
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak — The Wordpress.com network went down last week. In the wake of the outage, we started looking at what infrastructure Wordpress.com uses to serve its 10 million blogs. — Wordpress.com is run from data centers in Chicago and San Antonio.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Arnold Kim Celebrates 10 Years as Apple Rumor King — Arnold Kim quit his job treating kidneys to dissect the secrets of his favorite electronics company, the famously confidential Apple. — Kim launched his independent blog MacRumors.com on Feb. 24, 2000 during his fourth year in medical school.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple iTunes: 10 billion songs later — Seven years after Apple began selling music a la carte, what have listeners bought? — Image: Apple Inc. — If the current pace of downloads continues (about 100 songs per second), Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store will reach the 10 billion song mark sometime Wednesday …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows 7 Activation Technologies Update now live, ready to be dodged — Remember that polarizing Windows 7 Activation Technologies Update we told you about? You know, the one that helps you to “verify that the copy of Windows 7 that is running on your computer is activated correctly and is genuine?”
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Nintendo Introduces DSi XL Handheld Game Player With Book Reader in U.S. — Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co., maker of the top- selling Wii console, introduced the DSi XL handheld video-game player in the U.S., adding a book reader that competes with products from Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Corp.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Buzz Boosts Sharing On Google Reader By 35 Percent — Social sharing is becoming a big contributor to traffic for many sites. While Facebook and Twitter drive more sharing than any other services, Google is trying to compete with Buzz, which is now part of Gmail but shares links to article and blog posts through Google Reader.
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Apple iPad Should Default To Bing Search Engine — Global Equities Research has published a report predicting that Apple will choose Microsoft Bing as the default search engine for the iPad. — Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research for the Global Equities Research …
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Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
Augmented Identity App Helps You Identify and Friend Perfect Strangers, Face to Face — By this point, we're all familiar with augmented reality, but Swedish mobile software firm The Astonishing Tribe is taking information overload to the next logical step: augmented identity.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
H.P., Tech Powerhouse, Stumbles in Smartphones — Hewlett-Packard is one of the world's most successful makers of desktop computers, laptops, servers and printers. It owns a powerful consumer brand, and it is a growing provider of services for businesses. In the first quarter, the company's sales rose 8 percent.
