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iPhone goes on sale in ChinaApple has officially launched the iPhone in China to relatively warm response, at least in
beijing,
reports say. The device became available at 6:30PM local time on Friday, first through a China Unicom flagship store after a ceremony attended by Apple VP Greg Joswiak. Although there were no overnight lines as at some launches, just under 300 people are said to waited in front of the store for a
chance to buy the product....
macnn.com Friday, October 30, 2009iPhone climbs to 2.5% world market shareApple in two years has pushed the iPhone up to 2.5 percent of the entire cellphone market, Strategy Analytics estimates.
the company has roughly doubled its share from a year ago and now has half the share of established firms Motorola and Sony Ericsson, which have remained flat at five percent. Some of the gain is likely to have come at Nokia's expense, as it shrank to 37 percent share, its lowest since the start of 2007....
macnn.com Friday, October 30, 2009Sony continues quarterly losing streakHit by weakness across most of its divisions, Sony
reports net loss of 26.3 billion yen for its fiscal second quarter, its fourth straight quarterly loss.
CNET Friday, October 30, 2009FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic MediaA recent Notice of Inquiry from the FCC is
looking for opinions on how the "evolving electronic media landscape" affects kids, and whether the FCC itself
should have more regulatory control over such media. The full NOI (PDF) is available online. "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski included a statement with the NOI in which he noted that 'twenty years ago, parents worried about one or two TV sets in the house,' while today, media choices are far more widespread for children, including videogames, which 'have become a prevalent entertainment
source in millions of homes and a daily reality for millions of kids.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Friday, October 30, 2009Apple Denies Palm Pre iTunes Sync, Yet AgainApple's iTunes 9.0.2 update, pushed into the wild on Oct. 29, prevents Palm Pre users from syncing their smartphones with iTunes. Despite Apples repeated attempts to stop Palm from syncing its flagship device to Apples music platform, Palms engineers keep designing workarounds to keep iTunes running on the Pre. Sales of the Pre have been healthy, but the smartphone has not proven the iPhone killer that some predicted. - Palm Pre users found their ability to sync with iTunes denied yet again on Oct. 29, thanks to Apple's iTunes 9.0.2 update. While that update was otherwise fairly routine offering a handful of other features, including support for Apple TV 3.0 the denial-of-sync represents the latest twist in the...
eWEEK Friday, October 30, 2009Facebook wins case against spammersCalifornia court awards $712-million in damages after U.S. man induced users to click on messages to capture personal information
The Globe and Mail Friday, October 30, 2009First Camino 2 release candidate goes onlineMozilla has posted a first release candidate for Camino 2.0, the next major edition of
the company's Mac-focused web browser. RC1 makes relatively few changes compared to previous betas, but it does enable new AppleScript abilities, improved Full Keyboard Access support and per-site whitelisting or blacklisting of Flash. More significant may be an upgrade to the Gecko 1.9.0 engine, which includes bugfixes, better treatment of plug-ins and greater standards support, for instance through the use of JavaScript 1.8....
macnn.com Friday, October 30, 2009Facebook wins $711m in spam lawsuitSocial networking site Facebook secures payout from
internet marketer nicknamed 'Spamford'Facebook has been awarded $711.2m (£429.m) in damages after winning a case against Sanford Wallace, known as "Spamford", who sent mail and made posts without the permission of the
social networking website's users.The
company has been pursuing legal action against Wallace, who last year was fined $230m for attacking MySpace users to send porn spam, in February.In a statement Facebook said that the award, made at a court in California, was the "second largest in history" for an anti-spam action."While we don't expect to quickly collect the full amount, we'll work hard to get everything we can," said a Facebook spokesman. "We're confident that today's ruling will act as a powerful deterrent against those who would abuse Facebook and its users."Facebook added that the judge also referred Wallace for prosecution for criminal contempt of court, meaning he also potentially faces time in jail."The ruling
Guardian Friday, October 30, 2009NVIDIA Fermi to have lifelike 3D, mobile GPUs soonA pair of leaks have revealed NVIDIA's Fermi hardware
should both be a dramatic visual upgrade and have a quick release of mobile parts. A post today on a Chinese forum shows samples of the graphics chipset that include 3D rendered faces with both extremely high detail as well as particularly complex visual effects, such as natural-
looking facial hair or skin glare. One also shows the level of detail possible with relatively fast raytraced lighting....
macnn.com Friday, October 30, 2009Latin to lose its domain over Internet addressesSEOUL (Reuters) - The body in
charge of assigning the world's
internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet.
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