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1:55 PM ET, March 28, 2008

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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.
Discussion: VentureBeat, CrunchGear and iLounge
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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 …
Discussion: AppleInsider and Electronista
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 …
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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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
US students, alumni to get legal P2P  —  The beginning of the end of the file-sharing wars?  —  Exclusive US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned.
Discussion: Listening Post and WinBeta
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Report: Music downloads on your Net access tab?
Discussion: The Globe and Mail, p2pnet and AppScout
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.
Discussion: TeleRead, paidContent.org and open
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Tightens Grip on Printing
Discussion: TechCrunch
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
MacBook Air compromised in 2 minutes for $10,000  —  Charlie Miller hacking away.  Image from DVLabs  —  Many of you remember last year's CanSecWest conference, where a MacBook Pro was compromised for a $10,000 prize.  Well... take that, replace the MacBook Pro with a MacBook Air, and repeat it again for 2008.
Discussion: TidBITS and CyberNet
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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.
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.
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 …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?  —  One of Yahoo's best arguments for getting Microsoft to raise its offer to acquire the company-the portal's stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba-is in jeopardy courtesy of antitrust regulations in China.
Discussion: Seeking Alpha
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John Markoff / New York Times:
China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo
Discussion: TechCrunch and ClickZ News Blog
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.
Discussion: DailyTech and CNET News.com
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.
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 …
Discussion: Apple Watch, GigaOM and Macsimum News
Alan Boyle / MSNBC:
DOOMSDAY FEARS SPARK LAWSUIT  —  A hardhat worker is dwarfed by the inner workings of the Large Hadron  —  Collider's ATLAS detector.  Click on the image for a larger version.  —  The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears …
 
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Aperture updated to 2.1, finally satisfies hopes for plug-ins
eWeek:
TJX Settles with Government Over Data Breach
Discussion: Reuters
Oliver Bell / Oliver Bell's weblog:
The OSP Will Apply To Future Versions of DIS29500...
Discussion: The Register and ZDNet.com.au
AppleInsider:
Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
Discussion: LoopRumors and Macsimum News
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Talk on disk as the new RAM
Agence France Presse:
Restrictions on mobile phone use lifted in Cuba
Discussion: Reuters and Engadget Mobile
Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
Rockstar and Amazon bring digital music distribution to GTA4
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Microsoft looks to fix bugs with desktop search
 Earlier Items: 
Sean Harding / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Speaking the language of robots
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Did the internet get away with it?  —  Video games have been the focus …
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
The quiet boom of paidContent, and its new chief executive
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
MPAA to broadband providers: Pull the plug on pirates
Discussion: DSLreports and p2pnet
Linux-Watch.com:
Red Hat posts great 2008 fiscal year earnings
Timbl / Decentralized Information Group …:
Semantic Web in the news
Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Here's a throwback idea that might offer a way out for Microsoft
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Adobe's New Flash Codec is “Everyman's HD Platform”....has Improved …
Discussion: JD on EP