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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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Lee Gomes / Forbes:
Google And The Law — Not every Web ruling will be this silly. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — The criminal convictions of Google executives by an Italian court on account of a video posted by a Google user are every bit as inane as commentators all around the world are saying they are.
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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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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Mark Doherty / FlashMobileBlog:
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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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. — The odometer that has been counting song downloads on Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store for the past week and a half hit the 10 billion mark shortly …
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple iTunes sells 10 billion songs (but not '10 billions') [Updated] — Apple excitedly announced Wednesday that it had sold its 10 billionth song on iTunes. Maybe a little too excitedly, because the notorious perfectionists at the company spewed a typo onto its home page.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Google real-time search adds status updates from Facebook Pages — Facebook status updates from Pages will start showing up in Google's real-time search results today. — It's the first time the search giant has indexed content from the world's largest social network for real-time results.
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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.
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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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:YouTube removes original “Rickroll” video due to terms of use violation
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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.
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Sprint to launch 4G network in at least 8 major markets this year — If you're reading this, chances are pretty good that you're not on a 4G connection. Why? Because outside of a handful of cities, 4G connections just don't exist yet. — Take Sprint's WiMax network, for example …
John M. Simpson / Consumer Watchdog:
Consumer Watchdog Urges Justice To Include Search Manipulation In Google Probe — WASHINGTON, DC - Consumer Watchdog today called upon the Justice Department to ensure that its ongoing antitrust probe of Google's business practices include an investigation of whether the Internet giant …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Internet Addiction Might Actually Get Recognized By The Official Book Of Mental Disorders? — Over the last decade or so, there's been something of an... well... addiction to calling any sort of overuse of a product an addiction. So we've seen email addiction, web addiction, online porn addiction …
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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?”
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Site Leaks Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide, MS Demands Takedown Under Copyright Law (UPDATE 4) — 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 …
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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.
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Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld:
PayPal to open app store for developers — The move is part of a full-court press by the online payments giant on Web developers — PayPal will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company's multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers.
Alex Williams / ReadWriteCloud:
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.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Didn't Cancel Beijing Nexus One Event — [This post was updated at 10:02 to reflect new information from Google.] — So, turns out Google didn't cancel the Beijing event at which it planned to evangelize its new Nexus One Android smartphone. It couldn't cancel because the company …
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ZDNet:
HP opens $35.6M lab in Singapore — SINGAPORE—Hewlett-Packard has opened a research facility here, its third of such labs in the Asia-Pacific region, which will look at how data centers and application can be redesigned to meet future cloud computing needs.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
RapidShare Ordered To Proactively Filter Book Titles — On February 4th 2010, several large book publishers filed a lawsuit against file-hosting site, RapidShare. The plaintiffs, Bedford, Freeman & Worth and Macmillan, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Pearson, are large suppliers of textbooks.
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
HP Offers Data Center Services to SMBs — HP is bringing some of the data center consulting services it offers enterprises to the SMB space, and is packaging the services in such a way to make them easier to get through channel partners. — Hewlett-Packard is looking to give owners …
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