‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for May 8
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 8, 2008 at 5:26pm
“Apple Links Higher Sales with Higher Prices”—Seeking Alpha
“IPhone Dependency Proves Risky: Shares of Synchronoss, an Activator, Plummet 43% On Dim Outlook as Consumers Use Unlocked Devices”—WSJ.com
“Apple a laggard in climate-change plans, report says”—CNET News.com
“Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system”—Computerworld
“iPhone Doom developers sing SDK praises: Developers are beginning to explain the trials and tribulations of the iPhone SDK”—Macworld UK
“Stream Your iTunes Playlists on Facebook”: “Melodeo has added a new feature to its nuTsie iTunes streaming application that lets you embed up to five iTunes playlists in your Facebook profile.”—Wired.
“Apple ramping up iPhone 2008 rollout: 26 countries and counting”Baltimore Sun: Apple a Day
“Best Buy Puts $2.1 Billion Into European Cell Retailer”: “Best Buy, the biggest US retailer, is paying $2.1 billion for a 50 percent stake in Europe’s largest cell phone retailer, The Carphone Warehouse.”—Associated Press
“Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code”: “Vietnamese users of the open source Firefox browser may have nasty Trojan horse code inside their browsers, thanks to rogue code that sat inside a Vietnamese language pack for more than two months. Mozilla, the maker of the browser, is now changing how it scans for Trojans and viruses in the add-ons it offers for download.”—Wired
“Comcast Mulling Net Usage Cap to Discourage ‘Excessive’ Use”: “Comcast is considering putting a formal cap on monthly downloads instead of just calling up users who used several times a typical subscriber’s 2 gigs. It’s a bid to increase transparency about limits that have always been there on an ‘unlimited’ usage plan, they say. Others say ”’good luck’ putting the genie back in the bottle.”—Associated Press[/url]
“Radiohead Extends Remix Voting as Entrants Bellyache”: “Sour grapes or sound reasoning? The “Nude” remix contest earns the wrath of some participants.”—Wired
“Pirate Music, Lose Your House”: Digital music pirates are the same as drug dealers, prostitutes and gangs in New York and Los Angeles—at least as it relates to the government’s ability to declare your place a public nuisance, shut it down for as long as a year (or worse) and fine you. So it’s time to knock on your teenager’s door and pray he’s just downloading ####.”—Associated Press
(The graphic with this story comes from ClipartGuide.com.)
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