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December 17, 2012, 8:10 AM

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Apple:
iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million  —  Apple® today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone® 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December, making it the fastest iPhone rollout ever.
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Instagram Testimony Doesn't Add Up  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On a late August morning, Kevin Systrom, chief executive of Instagram, took an oath before testifying at a hearing of the California Corporations Department, which sought to determine if Facebook's acquisition …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
French reporters infiltrate Foxconn iPhone 5 factory, find few of the vaunted changes (updated)  —  Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2, went undercover at the Zhengzhou iPhone 5 Foxconn factory recently (within the past two months) …
More: TechEye, CNET and PhoneArena
Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
Anonymous Attacks Westboro Baptist Church Over Plans to Picket Sandy Hook Funerals  —  The Westboro Baptist Church, widely reviled for its homophobic beliefs and protests of veteran funerals, announced on Saturday that it would picket at Sandy Hook Elementary School following the tragic shooting …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
China tightens ‘Great Firewall’ internet control with new technology  —  Companies and individuals affected by new system thought to ‘learn, discover and block’ encrypted communications  —  China appears to be tightening its control of internet services that are able to burrow secretly through …
More: ZDNet
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
New Apps Recall the Details of Your Online Past  —  THE holiday season of 2011 was a hive of activity for me.  One week in early December, I managed to attend a party at the Bowery Ballroom, a movie premiere and a Justin Bieber-themed dinner event.  A few days later, in a single afternoon …

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