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Social networking giant Facebook has flatly denied a report that it is working on its own cell phone. But not everyone believes the rumors are false. Facebook Phone Story Leak by TechCrunch The first report came this past Sunday when TechCrunch ... founder and writer Michael Arrington claimed that Facebook was working on a program by which it would write the phone's operating system and software, while partnering with a manufacturer to physically build the handset. According to Arrington, two senior Facebook staff members have been working on the project. One helped create the Mozilla Firefox ... (view more)

Internet radio site Last.fm has denied reports that it told the record industry which of its members had listened to a leaked U2 album. The site claims the entire story, published by Techcrunch, was made up. Last week the record industry became ... extremely concerned after U2's forthcoming album appeared on several torrent file sharing sites. While there is no way any users could have acquired the album through Last.fm, the site's statistics suggest that more than 8,000 users have played the unreleased album on their machines. Employees 'Up In Arms' Late on Friday night the tech blogging site ... (view more)

If you were to list the world's most dangerous jobs, you probably wouldn't place tech site founder in the top, oh, hundred thousand. However, popular blog TechCrunch recently lost its co-founder Michael Arrington, amidst rumors that his life was ... being threatened. Although TechCrunch has only been in operation since June, 2005 it has in that time made quite the impression. Worldwide it boasts nearly 2 million web feed subscribers. Last year, the site unveiled a whole new web design, giving it a fresh feel and boosting its fan base. Unfortunately, fame (if you can call it that) doesn't go ... (view more)