Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue

Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue

By MIN LEE – 2 days ago

HONG KONG (AP) — Who is the "iPhone Girl"?

Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate.

The three pictures, posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumors.com, show a young Asian woman working on what appears to be an assembly line for iPhones.

Dressed in a pink striped outfit and hat and wearing white gloves with yellow fingertips, the young woman now known on the Web as the "iPhone Girl" is shown smiling and making victory signs as she poses next to an iPhone.

The MacRumors.com user who posted the photos last week, identified as only "markm49uk" from Kingston-upon-Hull, England, said in a posting that one of the pictures showed up on a new 3G iPhone when the iTunes program was launched.

News reports say the woman may work at a factory run by an Apple contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen.

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Bear attacks inside Anchorage have people on edge

By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 16, 1:41 PM ET

Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.

The problem is bears, black bears and bigger grizzlies. So far this summer, three people have been mauled in the city.

Some people say humans are to blame for the confrontations and insist that no bears should be killed because of the attacks.

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McCain Cribs Speech From Wikipedia | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

McCain Cribs Speech From Wikipedia | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "McCain Cribs Speech From Wikipedia

A Wikipedia editor claims that John McCain's speech about the Russian-Georgian hostilities was largely lifted from the website's entry on Georgia. What do you think?



Peter Tong,
Grocer
'Really? I'm going to go put my name in Wikipedia's 'Health Care' article and wait to see if I get mentioned in the debates.'



Blaine Principle,
Systems Analyst
'What a sorry way to treat the nation of Georgia, whose capital, Tbilisi, was featured in Splinter Cell for Xbox and PC.'




Carol Williams,
Quality Control Inspector
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