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Silvio Berlusconi, the somewhat shady Italian business magnate and Prime Minister, is taking on file sharing in Italy, with the Italian goverment demanding ISP’s to block The Pirate Bay.

Berlusconi doubles as the founder and majority owner of Fininvest, a media company that holds large interests in the Italian film and television industry. Obviously, Berlusconi and his managers view file sharing with a jaundiced eye, though there is no evidece to suggest a direct link between the Prime Minister and the file sharing crackdown.
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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, who hasn’t had a day off since the Carter administration, posted a what I thought was a pretty funny and chuckle-inducing post this weekend.

Apparently, Paris Hilton has been spotted cavorting around MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe. Hilton, who is 15 years DeWolfe’s junior, has been attending every one of DeWolfe’s many parties in the Hamptons on Long Island. DeWolfe is married but separated, and Hilton is supposedly dating some other guy that I’m not going to bother to figure out.
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Like the iPhone but kind of miss how phones like the Motorola Razr felt in your pocket? There may be some relief on the way in the form of an iPhone Nano. But nothing is for certain yet, of course. Apple is pretty good at this kind of stuff.

But their partners aren’t so secretive. Apple accessory maker Digital Lifestyle Outfitters has apparently been working on an iPhone Nano dock since the first rumors of a nano surfaced back in 2006. Of course, they applied for a patent and it was published this spring, showing the specs of a supposed iPhone Nano dock.
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Computer researcher Jeroen van Beek of the University of Amsterdam recently teamed up with The Times of London to test the security of supposedly fakeproof e-passports.

The results were not so good. In less than an hour, van Beek cloned two passports and attached photos of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber that killed three people in 2003. The software responsible for reading the e-passport accepted the cloned passports with no problems.
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In what isn’t much of a surprise at all, the Pew Internet Project released a study today confirming that search engine use increasingly becoming an everyday activity for web users, and has email in its sights.

49% of all web users utilize search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Live Search every day. While that number doesn’t sound particularly stunning, it represents a sustained and steady rise from the 33% number reported in 2002. In comparison with email, whose usage has risen 15% in the last six years, search engine usage has risen 69%.
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