Foxconn Electronics has reportedly landed orders for the assembly of second-generation iPhones from Apple supporting 3G, with shipments to begin in June this year, the Chinese-language Commercial Times has quoted sources at foreign institutional investors in Taipei as indicating.
The Commercial Times also cited sources at component suppliers as saying they have been instructed by Apple to begin preparing material supplies by the end of May.
This month’s Internet Trends Report by Morgan Stanley is mainly focused on social applications. The report shows us that 6 out of the 10 top Internet sites are social (youtube, live.com, facebook, hi5, wikipedia, orkut). For the information, none were on the list in 2005! Is email about to die???
Alexa.com has this rating system where they give websites a rank. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). While it’s not as relevant as Google Page Rank system, I think it gives a good trend about what’s happening. Alexa also compiles lists of the Top 100 / 500 websites, per country and per language. Looking at the Top 100 websites for the US, I realized that 6 of them are porn sites. We sure like porn in the States…
Cracked.com came up with the 6 worst foods in the world. While they might have forgotten a few ones, I’m sure they are pretty close to the truth. Among the worst food, we have:
Here is the one artist that made me buy music for the first time on iTunes. Yes, I spent $.99/song for the first time this week. And you know what? It was well worth my money!
Walter Ferguson was born in Guabito, Panama. His family soon settled in Costa Rica and he spent most of his childhood in Jamaica Town, a neighborhood in Port Limon. There he lived in his aunt´s house, where he used to receive organ lessons. His parents moved to Cahuita, a small hamlet in the far South of the province, where he lives until today.
Engadget got the scoop (as usual!) about iPhone 2nd Generation.
Here are some details about the new iPhone:
A retired veterinarian who was swimming with members of a triathlon club was killed Friday morning in a shark attack north of Fletcher Cove.
A marine expert said the wounds appeared to be from a great white shark, an attack he described as “practically unprecedented†in the area.
I just called a franchise company (I’ll keep the name for me) to ask them if they wanted to be listed in the upcoming edition of our top seller publication, the Bond’s Franchise Guide.
I knew I was gonna be a hard sale. I met the franchisor at the International Franchise Expo in DC a couple weeks ago and he’s one of these guys who wants the world for free.
I hadn’t had the time to tell him about the price that he went “listen, I have a great deal for you. You give me a free listing in your Guide and I’ll give you a free franchise!”.
I can’t get enough of these “basics of SEO” type of posts. I know everything about it but every time I read them it gives me new ideas.
Danny Dover posted on SEOmoz a great entry called “the beginner’s checklist for small business SEO”.
It’s not a goldmine of information but it definitely can help in your local SEO efforts.
Click here for full article.
Reuters reports that a program teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins. If you tell me NOT to do something, chances are I will try to do it… Kids will have sex one way or the other so you might as well teach them how to be responsible vs. teaching them not to have sex.