Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley  —  Menlo Park, Calif. — BROOKE HAMMERLING (publicist) and Erin McKean (entrepreneur) are in a Sand Hill Road conference room, hashing out plans to unveil Ms. McKean’s new Web site, Wordnik.  —  Ms. Hammerling, while popping green apple Jolly Ranchers … […]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan - Updated  —  Gauging the iPhone’s popularity in Japan is not easy.  —  Just ask Brian X. Chen.  He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the […]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan  —  Gauging the iPhone’s popularity in Japan is not easy.  —  Just ask Brian X. Chen.  He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G […]

Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000  —  Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky this week.  The crooks were aided by more than two dozen co-conspirators in the United States, as well as assistance from a family of malicious software capable …

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Apple, Acer and…Arrington?  —  Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing.  Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality.  —  The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday …

Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads  —  Pesky monkey still creating (some) havoc  —  Join our expert panel in discussing application security  —  Mozilla Foundation notched up five million downloads in the first 24 hours after it released Firefox 3.5 earlier this week.