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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Store 2.0 Goes Live: Interactive iPads and More [Updated] — Following the wild speculation and rumors from the last week as to whether Apple was planning a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Retail, the so-called Apple Store 2.0 experience has launched in Australia …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
First Impressions and More Details On Apple's Updated Retail Stores
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DigiTimes:
Apple said to introduce curved-glass iPhone 5 — There has been a fair amount of buzz on the iPhone 5, and the latest being circulated around the supply chain in Taiwan is that Apple is going to adopt a curved cover glass for its next generation model, according to industry sources.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Foxconn to Suppliers: iPad 2 Production (and Next iPhone?) Will Not Be Delayed Due to Explosion — Beyond the obvious human toll of last week's Foxconn factory explosion, there's been speculation about how the incident may affect Apple's iPad 2 production.
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All Things Digital, DigiTimes, DigiTimes, Bloomberg, Pulse2, Examiner, AllNewsMac and M.I.C. Gadget
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Inside the Apple iPad factory — The site of Friday's explosion was massive 8-building complex thrown together in a record 70 days — Workers on a Chungdu assembly line. Photo: M.I.C. Gadget — When a polishing workshop blew up in Foxconn's new factory complex in Chengdu, China …
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Naked Security / Sophos:
Sony BMG Greece the latest hacked Sony site — In what seems to be a neverending nightmare it appears that the website of Sony BMG in Greece has been hacked and information dumped. — An anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com, including the usernames …
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The Register, Guardian, SlashGear, Pulse2, Disruptors, THN, GFI Labs blog and Techie Buzz
John Markoff / New York Times:
Suit Claims Cisco Helped China Pursue Falun Gong — SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco, the maker of Internet routing gear, customized its technology to help China track members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by members of the movement.
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AdAge:
Being ‘Technology-Infused’ Proves Taxing for Affluent — Adoption of New Toys Such as E-readers, Tablets Has Been Rapid by Well-off, but Study Finds It's Made Their Lives More Complicated — As people of means acquire more technological devices to simplify their lives, their lives have actually become more complicated.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Officially in Discussions for Retail Store Space in Grand Central Terminal — Grand Central Terminal leasing plan (PDF) with Metrazur on East Balcony at right — Earlier this year, reports surfaced claiming that Apple was pursuing a potential new retail store location …
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Wall Street Journal, MacStories, iClarified, Softpedia News and New York Observer
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
By The Numbers: How Facebook Says Likes & Social Plugins Help Websites — Earlier this month, I wrote about how the promise of Facebook traffic has enticed millions of sites to use Facebook Like buttons and other Facebook social plugins. But does following Facebook's socialist agenda really pay off?
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
ICE Seizes More Domains Today, Admin Says “We'll Be Back” — As indicated in our exclusive report yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have resumed “Operation In Our Sites”, the domain name seizing initiative designed to crack down on copyright infringement.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Update to Facebook Promotion Guideline Changes: Restrictions on Some Categories Such as Gambling Remain — Facebook made a significant update to its promotions guidelines last week, deleting blanket clauses that previously prohibited the promotion of some types of products and the targeting of minors plus those in some countries.
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Hulu Plus on TiVo Premiere hands-on — As rumored, Hulu Plus is now officially available on the TiVo Premiere, and according to TiVo, this “further extends its lead as the only one-box solution that integrates in one easy-to-use user interface.” We supposed this is technically true …
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Time Warner, AT&T Win Big, N.C. Gov Won't Veto Anti-Municipal Internet Bill — Governor Bev Purdue says that she will neither sign nor vete H.129 — It looks as though big the big telecoms that provide internet service in North Carolina — Time Warner Cable, AT&T, etc. …
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