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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 …
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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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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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.
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.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:Amazon Tightens Grip on Printing
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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.
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 …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
MacBook Air compromised in 2 minutes for $10,000 (Updated) — 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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
