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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple posts firmware v1.1.2 — goodbye jailbreak! — Looks like Apple just published firmware v1.1.2 for the iPhone; hit the download link to grab it yourself because iTunes hasn't yet gotten wise to the fact that it's out. Details to follow, but don't expect jailbreak …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple releases iPhone 1.1.2 update — As expected, Apple has finally released its 1.1.2 update for iPhone and, presumably, iPod touch. You can download the ipsw file directly from Apple or upgrade in iTunes. The associated documentation is here. — The clock until a reliable 1.1.2 jailbreak appears begins now.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Radiohead: comScore totally inaccurate — A New Music Express piece on Radiohead brings with it a rather large knee to the goolies for comScore, which came out with some numbers on downloads of the band's "pay what you want" album In Rainbows (I wrote about comScore's results here).
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Gil Kaufman / MTV:
Radiohead Deny Reports That 60 Percent Of Fans Paid Nothing For In Rainbows — Band sets December 31 for physical release of latest album overseas. — The physical version of Radiohead's In Rainbows won't be ready for your holiday stocking, but it will be released this year.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
YouTube Releases Multi-file Uploader, Raises File Limits to 1 GB — YouTube just announced the availability for Windows users of a desktop uploader (install page here). Users will now be able to do bulk file uploads. The company also raised its file size limit from 100 MB to 1 GB.
Associated Press:
Sony CEO sees 'stalemate' in disc fight — NEW YORK - The head of Sony Corp., Howard Stringer, said Thursday that the Blu-ray disc format the company has developed as the successor to the DVD is in a "stalemate" with the competing HD DVD format, chiefly backed by Toshiba Corp. and Microsoft Corp.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Are Facebook's Social Ads Illegal? — Mark Zuckerberg promised no less than a revolution with his idea that ads you see on Facebook will be attached to the names and photos of your friends who like the products being advertised. — There is at least one problem with this idea …
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Nate Weiner / the Idea Shower:
Block Facebook Beacon — So here I am, burning some brain cells and taking some time to relax playing a game on Kongregate, when a little window pops up in the corner of my screen and says "Kongregate is sending this to your Facebook profile: Nate played Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 at Kongregate."
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
First Look at Firefox 3.0 [Screenshot Tour] — With the release of the much anticipated Firefox 3 looming just around the corner, we got our hands on the latest beta build of your favorite browser to get a closer look at exactly what changes and exciting new features you can expect from the upcoming release of the 'fox.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Sprint and Clearwire Nix WiMax Agreement [Wireless] — Sprint and Clearwire Nix WiMax Agreement — Given the shaky state of the WiMax unit of Sprint, the termination of its joint agreement with Clearwire to bring WiMax coverage to 100 million people comes as something of a surprise.
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Between the Lines, Seeking Alpha, GigaOM, Reuters, Epicenter, Gadget Lab, dailywireless.org and Tech Trader Daily
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Prosecutor Announces Charges Against The Pirate Bay — The Pirate Bay team does not believe that Roswall will be successful in his attempt to take down The Pirate Bay. They keep repeating that they are just running a search engine and did not store any copyrighted material on their servers.
Evan DiBiase / The Evan Series:
Video Rentals Coming Soon to iTunes? — Before installing any iTunes upgrade, I dump the strings from the old iTunes binary. Once the new version has installed, I diff the new version's strings against the old's, to see what shows up. — When I did this for the recent 7.5 upgrade, I found the following interesting (new) strings:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Review: The Sweet Agony That Is Nokia N81 — It has been nearly 65 days since I went without a phone set change, leading to snide remarks from my co-workers about my fidelity to Apple's iPhone. Despite getting frustrated with frustrations with iPhone's Email application …
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Kelly Jackson Higgins / darkREADING:
The World's Biggest Botnets — What makes three of today's largest botnets tick, what they're after - and a peek at the 'next' Storm — You know about the Storm Trojan, which is spread by the world's largest botnet. But what you may not know is there's now a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow Storm away.
