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Cheating Husband on Facebook
Wife learns facts
with search
(AP) — Dread of the unknown hung in
the air as Lynn France typed two words
into the search box on Facebook: the name
of the woman with whom she believed her
husband was having an affair.
Click. And there it was, the stuff of
nightm ares for any spouse, cuckolded or
not. W edding photos. At Walt Disney
W orld, no less, featuring her husband
literally dressed as Prince Charming. His
new' wile, a pretty blonde, was a glowing
Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.
I was numb with shock, to tell you the
truth," says France, an occupational thera­
pist from W estlake, a Cleveland suburb.
illicit encounters w hispered about and
"There was like an album of 200 pictures often difficult to prove. But in the age of
on there. T heir whole wedding."
Facebook and T w itter and lightning-fast
Affairs were once shadowy matters. com m unication, the notion of privacy is
fast becom ing obsolete. From flirtatious
text messages to incrim inating e-m ails,
marital indiscretions are much easier to
track — especially if potentially damaging
photographic evidence is posted online.
F ra n c e , 4 1 , w as not c o m p le te ly
blindsided by her Facebook discovery,
which happened in January 2009. That fall,
she had grown suspicious when her hus­
band began taking frequent business trips,
even leaving the day the couple's new ­
born son came home from the hospital.
Once, she found his passport at home
when he was supposed to be in China for
b u sin ess.
Parry Aftab, a law yer who runs the
online protection site W iredSafety.org,
says the lesson to be learned from the
Frances' case is that no form of com m uni­
cation is sacred anymore.
But Aftab doesn't recom m end snoop­
ing around online. That can backfire in
court if used inappropriately — such as
w hen sp o u ses log o n to each o th er's
Facebook pages without perm ission. If
your spouse isn't trustw orthy, she says,
get a divorce and save yourself the trouble.
Exec Leaves after ‘Antennagate’ Apple to Fix Security Flaw
Mark Papermaster, the Apple
executive in charge of iPhone engi­
neering, has left the company weeks
after the "Antennagate" contro­
versy over complaints of poor re­
ception on the company's latest
smartphone.
Apple released the iPhone 4 in
June and it was an instant hit with
consum ers. But reports spread
about bad reception when the de­
vice was held a certain Way, and
analysts warned that the company's
reputation for quality was under
threat.
The issue snowballed into a pub­
licity crisis and Apple was forced to
call a press conference to tackle the
matter. Apple CEO Steve Jobs
maintaine'd there was nothing
wrong with the iPhone 4, and that
the reception problem was one
shared by other smartphones.
Apple hired Papermaster in No­
vember of 2008, luring him away
from IBM, where he had worked
for 25 years.
Apple is planning to release a fix ware update will be available.
for a security hole in the software
The flaw drew attention after it
that runs on its iPhone, iPad and was used for a program that lets
iPod Touch devices.
people "jailbreak" iPhones in order
Hackers could gain access to data to run programs Apple hasn't ap­
stored on Apple Inc.'s gadgets by proved for sale in its iTunes store.
putting a PDF file with hidden code
The company declined to say
onto a website and luring people to Thursday whether it knows of mali­
visit the site.
cious hackers actively exploiting the
Apple did not say when the soft­ flaw.
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Digital download
sales growth slowed
fu rth er for W arner
Music Group Corp, in
its fiscal third quar­
ter, prom pting CEO
Edgar Bronfman Jr. to
say that the company
was looking "beyond
the iTunes model" to
return to growth.
Bronfman pointed
to new "access m od­
e ls"
b a se d
on
monthly music sub­
scription plans, and
the entry o f Google
Inc. and others into
the business to re­
verse a decade o f declining CD
sales.
Revenue from digital sales of
recorded music grew just 3.7 per­
cent to $ 169 million. That's a slower
pace than the 4.5 percent growth
posted a year ago and 39 percent
growth two years earlier.
Sales of downloads from Apple
Inc.'s iTunes store are slowing as
the market matures. Late adopters
of new gadgets such as the iPod
and iPhone generally consum e
less content than early buyers.
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