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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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Infinite Loop, Hardware 2.0, Digital Daily, mocoNews.net, Tech Trader Daily, BB Geeks, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and LoopRumors
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Apple: BofA Sees iPhone Build Plans At 3M CQ2, 8M CQ3
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Electronista
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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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Don't think of it as a music tax; think of it more like an insurance policy — So now the full outlines of this year's music industry strategy for preserving its dying business model have become clear, and appropriately given the cartel's deep attachment to the past, it involves old-fashioned, street thug arm-twisting.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:The Music Industry's New Extortion Scheme
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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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AppScout
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.
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.
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.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Internet Archive bestows golden pipes on public housing — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — The inventor of the Internet Wayback Machine is delivering free broadband net connections to San Francisco public housing projects, giving residents significantly faster access speeds than anyone else in the city.
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Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years — NEW YORK The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years. — According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue …
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paidContent.org, Susan Mernit's Blog, Recovering Journalist, Content Bridges and Romenesko
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 …
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 …
Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
TRUSTe “Verified by haxors” — A vulnerability in the TRUSTe seal verification service was demonstrated last week, showing how the service could have been exploited to make it look as though an unauthorised site had a valid TRUSTe seal. — A security researcher using the pseudonym …
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Security Watch
TeleGeography Research:
Telecom hints at offering iPhones — New Zealand incumbent fixed line and mobile operator Telecom New Zealand has hinted that it may offer Apple's iPhone handset to customers on its new NZD300 million (USD241.2 million) mobile network. The company's director of mobile operations Martin Butler …
