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Wei Yi Lim / CNN:
Hon Hai Gets Apple Order For New iPhones -Source — TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317.TW) has secured an exclusive contract to assemble a more advanced version of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) popular iPhone, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Friday.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone — It should be no surprise that Apple has turned to Foxconn, the trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industries, to build the next generation iPhone. — China's Commercial Times reported early Friday that Foxconn was competing for the business …
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Gartner Clarifies 3G iPhone Reports — The technology research firm says it doesn't know whether Apple has actually ordered 10 million iPhones that support 3G networks, as was reported on the Web. — Technology research firm Gartner on Thursday tried to clear up reports that it had said Apple might …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You” — We learned yesterday that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents. — Some of the details were in the article: they've hired industry veteran Jim Griffin to create …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Music Industry's New Extortion Scheme — Update: More details of the scheme are here. — Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging's Future — Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures. So it's no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them.
Daniel Emerson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook friends not real friends: judge — A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected - that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn't necessarily make you their friend. — The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:Judge Says Being A Facebook Friend Isn't Like Real Friendship
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AppleInsider:
Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update — Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser — This post has been corrected from the original: Mozilla has no plan to ship Firefox 4 this year; references to that effect have been removed. — After the product road map roundtable I live-blogged Wednesday, I had a talk with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla.
Katie Hafner / Bits:
Low-Income Residents Get High-Speed Access — Last summer, when Earthlink pulled the plug on plans to build a city-wide Wi-Fi network in San Francisco, it looked like only those with the money to pay for high-speed Internet access (or with a decent laptop and a good map of free hotspots) would be able to get it.
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WritersWeekly.com:
Amazon.com Telling POD Publishers - Let BookSurge Print Your Books, or Else... BREAKING DEVELOPMENT: We were notified by a PublishAmerica author that her book was available for purchase through Amazon on Tuesday but today the “buy” button for her book on Amazon is gone.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007 — That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about how the company developed, planned, and launched Vista …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Loopt Embraced by Verizon; Starts to Spread Its Mobile Wings — Loopt, a mobile social network that can be used to see where your friends are currently located, has partnered with Verizon to put its software on that carrier's phones. It's a big win for Loopt since Verizon has more location-aware handsets than any other carrier.
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Google to TV: We Want to Work with You — Google TV Ads Director Michael Steib Speaks at Television Bureau of Advertising's Annual Marketing Conference — Addressing a room full of curious broadcasters at the Television Bureau of Advertising's annual marketing conference in New York Thursday …
Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Dell offers sub-$1,000 Blu-ray laptop — The end of the next-generation DVD format battle may not mean a long victory lap for inflated Blu-ray prices after all. — Dell, which has more than a little clout in the PC market, on Friday announced that consumers can now spend less than $1,000 to get a Blu-ray-equipped laptop.
Ben Fritz / Variety:
Paramount gets in game — Studio gears up for videogames — Get ready for Paramount the videogame publisher. — The studio has expanded its interactive department team and is putting together a slate of games that it will partially or completely finance and for which it will more directly oversee development.
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Tricia Duryee / paidContent.org:Paramount Pictures Is Making A Play In Games
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