Around the Web 5.7.09: A Wikipedia hoax, Kindle’s newspaper deal, FriendFeed redesign

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-- More earnings failures: Cisco and THQ report losses. LAT

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with the Kindle DX. Credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images

-- New cables are being laid to keep up with still growing global demand for Internet pipes. Wired

-- A phony quote posted on Wikipedia by a student prankster made its way into several newspapers. Irish Times

-- AT&T might cut rate plans by $10 per month when the new iPhone comes out in June. The Street

-- The new Kindle came out Wednesday. But more importantly, Amazon.com made an interesting deal with newspapers to make the product cheaper for some consumers. LAT

-- FriendFeed’s redesign leverages Twitter to gain more users. Venture Beat

-- A Stanford professor’s iPhone app turns the phone into an ocarina. His love for digital music-making parlayed into a profitable start-up. LAT

-- Chris Lesinski