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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
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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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Dancho Danchev / Dancho Danchev's Blog:
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing — Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk …
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InfoWorld:
Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack — A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit more than a million Web pages, including many well-known sites. — “The number and importance of the sites has increased,” …
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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 …
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
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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.
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.
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.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
10 Reasons Why You're Going to Love Toluu — Have you heard about Toluu yet? This new RSS-based service, currently in private beta, lets you share your OPML with others in order to discover new feeds, see what your friends are reading, and even discover new people who share your same interests.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Liberty Media Loses Court Bid To Block IAC Split Up Plan — A Delaware court has ruled against Liberty Media (LCAPA) in its effort to block IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) Chairman Barry Diller from advancing a plan to split IAC into five public companies, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
BlackBerry 9000 in the wild — Okay, we'll admit, the first thought on our minds when we saw the BlackBerry 9000 in its natural habitat for the first time was, “that's it?” RIM's been taking on increasingly sharp competition as of late — even in its traditional corporate strongholds …
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 …
polishlinux.org:
Possible manipulation around OOXML process in Poland — This is a follow-up post to my recent report on OOXML process in Poland. It looks like things are going bad this time. At least as bad as in September. — We have already mentioned the letter from Tomasz Schweitzer …
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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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