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Natalie Kerris / Apple:
Apple Sells One Millionth iPhone — Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. iPhone combines three devices into one—a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod®, and the best mobile Internet device ever …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone: 1 Million Is Below Plan — Days after Apple gets hammered by the Street over iPhones sales, Steve Jobs tells us that he's selling plenty of fancy phones: 1 million of them in 74 days. The news, announced before the market opened, bumped up AAPL: Shares immediately jumped to $137.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
HD video: iPhone unlocked on camera from start to finish — Ok, here it is, the first time on camera you've seen a real iPhone software SIM unlocked from start to finish (and not done with the demo app iPhoneSIMfree sent out last week). The last iPhoneSIMfree unlock video we had only showed …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:iPhoneSIMfree goes retail, let the unlocking begin
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Gizmodo, iLounge, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Techomical, Infinite Loop, iPhone Central, Gadgetell, Compiler, Gadget Lab and Mashable!
Brian Briggs / BBspot:
Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit — Cupertino, CA - Early adopters of the iPhone weren't the only ones receiving in-store credit from Steve Jobs. In an overlooked announcement, Jobs said that early adopters of the Apple Lisa would be receiving a $7000 in-store credit.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft offers its take on CapGemini-Google deal — Microsoft has been noticeably quiet whenever we bloggers/press folk ask them for comments on Google various announcements. Today's CapGemini-Google partnership to sell Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) must have struck a nerve …
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Read/WriteWeb, One Microsoft Way, Google Operating System, WSJ.com, mathewingram.com/work, BetaNews and Mashable!
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Apple Eyes the Wireless Auction — Steve Jobs & Co. consider joining the FCC's auction of wireless spectrum, and a win would give Apple many intriguing options—for the iPhone and more — Talk of the government's pending auction of valuable wireless spectrum has focused largely …
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Epicenter, InfoWorld, Infinite Loop, CNET News.com, The Technology Chronicles, The Register, The Digital Home, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Daily, IntoMobile, WinExtra, VoIP Blog, Salon: Machinist, MobileCrunch, Engadget, Techomical, dslreports.com, Phone Scoop, mocoNews.net, Between the Lines, Macsimum News, TechSpot News and MediaBytes with Shelly …
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's Cautious Course — How Now 'Sacred Cow'? — Lack of Major Overhaul Poses Test — Investors who have grown impatient with Yahoo Inc. may have to wait awhile longer to see any pop in its stock. — The Internet company replaced its chief executive in June and this summer kicked off …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: Apple Cripples iPod Touch, Eliminates "Add" Button from Calendar — According to support discussions and their own description pages, Apple has removed the ability to add events in the iPod touch's calendar, even while it uses the same operating system and application frameworks as the iPhone [Updated after the jump]
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Record Industry Proves Again How Much They've Lost The Plot — Warning: this is so stupid you might need to be sitting down. — The latest brainwave from an industry that continues to bleed revenue is the Ringle: a product that combines the single format with ringtones.
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Ed Christman / Reuters:Music industry betting on 'ringle' format
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Compiler, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Digital Daily, CrunchGear, last100, Insider Chatter, Valleywag and The Boy Genius Report
Villu Arak / Heartbeat:
On the worm that affects Skype for Windows users — (updated at 16.30 GMT, added Symantec reference) — (update at 17.15 GMT: FSecure now calls the virus W32/Skipi.A. Symantec has named it W32.Pykspa.D.) — The new week has started with a bang. And not the kind of bang we like.
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WSJ.com, InfoWorld, Today @ PC World, One Microsoft Way, TechBlog, Elliott C. Back, TechSpot News, Skype-watch.com …, Compiler, CrunchGear, Mashable! and WinBeta
ResourceShelf:
Ask City Makes Embedding Maps Just A Click Away; Enhanced Driving/Walking Directions Also Online — Like we do with all major posts about new services and news at Ask.com, please click to read below to read the post. We do this because some of you don't want to read a post from Gary who is Director of Online Services at Ask.com.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Adblock Plus: what would Jesus do? — I'm deep in a quandary. A couple of days ago, after calling Adblock Plus "the nuclear plug-in," I actually went nuclear. I downloaded the sucker and started using it. I was seduced by Noam Cohen's description of the almost Zenlike sense of peace …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Michael Dell: Changing the economics of SMB storage — Company founder and CEO Michael Dell was in San Francisco today, conducting a global Webcast "town hall meeting" focused on how his company is removing cost and complexity from storage solutions for the "under-served" market of small- and medium-sized businesses.
NEWS.com.au:
Google's 'top spot for sale' — GOOGLE has been selling off the top rankings on its search engine results to commercial partners, rather than sorting them by relevance as it claims to, a Sydney court has heard. — The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) …
ConsortiumInfo.org The Standards Blog:
IBM Throws its Active Support behind OpenOffice.org (at last) — DiggThis Add to Del.icio.us — In what many will see as a long-overdue move, OpenOffice.org announced today that IBM will become an active supporter of, and contributor to, OpenOffice.
Geoffrey Lean / The Independent:
Germany warns citizens to avoid using Wi-Fi — Environment Ministry's verdict on the health risks from wireless technology puts the British government to shame. — People should avoid using Wi-Fi wherever possible because of the risks it may pose to health, the German government has said.
Everything TypePad:
Introducing TypePad for iPhone and iPod touch — We've baked moblogging into TypePad from the very beginning. From integration with Nokia's LifeBlog to our free TypePad Mobile client for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones, TypePad has been leading the field with excellent mobile blogging tools and services.
