NewsFactor - An unnamed girl employed by the Shenzhen plant in China, operated by subcontractor Foxconn Technology Group, has become popular overnight after photos of her appeared on an iPhone customer's device. -- read full article
AP - First an iPhone price cut left early buyers feeling foolish, and then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks. Now the new iPhone 3G has been marred by bugs, spotty service, disappearing programs for the device and a veil of secrecy over software developers trying to broaden its appeal.
NewsFactor - Apple's publicity nightmare keeps growing worse. The latest twist is more serious than dropped calls or lost e-mail -- it's a security flaw in the iPhone that could dial up trouble for users.
Macworld.com - Adobe extension maker, WebAssist on Wednesday introduced SiteAssist Professional, a new product aimed at Web developers. -- read full article
Reuters - Vimpelcom , Russia's
second-largest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it had
signed a distribution deal with Apple Inc. to sell
iPhone 3G in Russia. -- read full article
CNET - An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.
Reuters - A security flaw in Apple Inc's
iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access
to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked,
but the company said a fix is on the way.
Macworld.com - Genealogy application MacFamilyTree has been updated to version 5.2.5, improving on several of the features in the application. -- read full article
CNET - French owners of the iPhone 3G are irate over Orange's practice of capping their 3G download speeds at a rate far slower than what their neighbors can access, but are in for a speed boost.
NewsFactor - The iPhone took hits on two fronts Wednesday as Orange -- an iPhone 3G carrier in France -- admitted to limiting 3G bandwidth for its customers, and a security flaw was discovered in the iPhone that enables unauthorized users to access private data on the phone when it is supposedly locked.
