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4:30 PM ET, February 24, 2010

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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.
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Analysis: Italian Decision Could Help Traditional Media Orgs
Discussion: BuzzMachine and Guardian
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) …
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.
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.
Discussion: Erictric
Julia Holtz / European Public Policy Blog:
Committed to competing fairly  —  As Google has grown, we've not surprisingly faced more questions about our role in the advertising ecosystem and our overall approach to competition.  This kind of scrutiny goes with the territory when you are a large company.
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
EU denies Google is under investigation, early evidence appears weak
Discussion: Guardian and Financial Times
Charles Arthur / Guardian:   Google is slave to the algorithm
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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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Didn't Cancel Beijing Nexus One Event
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.
Discussion: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb and TechFlash
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.
Thanks:sjespers
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Andrew Lim / Recombu:
Flash might not be a battery hog but Adobe needs to charge its batteries
Thanks:recombu
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: MacRumors and Pulse2
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.
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 …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW and MacDailyNews
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.
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?”
Discussion: Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Erictric
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.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Seeking Alpha
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 …
iSuppli:
Cell Phones Pressure Low-end Digital Still Camera Market  —  The low-end Digital Still Camera (DSC) market is coming under intensifying competitive pressure from cell phones that are sporting increasingly high-resolution image sensors, according to iSuppli Corp.
Discussion: Electronista
 
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
ChaCha Gets Into The Local Business Listings Game
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Site Leaks Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide, MS Demands Takedown …
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
FCC plan calls for 500 MHz of new spectrum for wireless
Discussion: GigaOM and Associated Press
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
KODA Secures Another $1.5 Million For Its Social Jobs Site
Discussion: PR Newswire and paidContent
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Social Search Startup PeerPong Raises $2.8 Million
 Earlier Items: 
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David Diaz / TechCrunch:
Passlogix: One Authenticator To Rule Them All
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Only 50% Of Twitter Messages Are In English, Study Says
Discussion: Mashable!
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
H.P., Tech Powerhouse, Stumbles in Smartphones
Discussion: pocketnow.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Lifehacker:
When It Doesn't Pay to Be Google's Guinea Pig
Discussion: Changing Way, Thanks:labnol
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
Discussion: Boing Boing and freakbits.com