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10:05 AM ET, July 14, 2008

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PR Newswire:
Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend  —  Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone(TM) 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries — Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland …
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Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
iPhone: The New Personal Computer  —  When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer.  Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Piper Jaffray analyzes first weekend iPhone sales  —  UPDATE: Apple on Monday issued a press release announcing that it sold its 1 millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday.  News from the company has apparently overtaken Gene Munster's analysis, below.  —  “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend …
New York Times:
In Bid for Yahoo, Microsoft Turns More Aggressive  —  By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN  —  Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft's new proposal to buy Yahoo's search business, one the Internet company swiftly rejected on Saturday.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo search deal boost as big as a bread box?
Discussion: Slashdot and Coop's Corner
Brett Terpstra / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Did Apple set developers up for failure?  —  As I'm sure many of you have noticed, many of the applications from the App Store are crashing frequently.  Basically, an app I want to launch opens a blank screen, pauses for a moment, and then drops me back to my home screen without so much as an apology.
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Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Hypenotized by Apple  —  Watching the cloud of hype around last week's release of the new iPhone, I was struck by the way Apple's psychological influence over the tech industry continues to grow.  I'm having trouble thinking of any recent technology product, let alone a smartphone …
Discussion: Epicenter and All About Symbian
Jeff Carlson / TidBITS:
Send SMS for Free via AIM on iPhone  —  I expected that iPhone 3G service from AT&T would be more expensive compared to the original iPhone - $30 per month for data on top of voice service, a $10 increase), but the telco slipped in a poison profit pill by removing SMS text messaging from the plan.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Trends Subverted Again.  This Is Getting (ll) Embarrasing  —  Last week a Swastika appeared on Google trends as a top queried term (leading to an endless debate as to whether the symbol was offensive or not).  Google removed the symbol and returned our email query saying that a link …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
The man who changed Internet security  —  Programming note: As of Friday, July 11, 2008, Defense in Depth will now only carry my weekly column plus additional commentary on the state of computer security.  My security news blogs will instead appear under the CNET News Security banner going forward.
Discussion: Ars Technica
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Superstars  —  One of the 13 features added to Gmail Labs in May is Superstars, an extension of Gmail's starring system.  Instead of using a single star to flag all the messages, you can choose between 12 icons.  —  After enabling Superstars in Gmail Labs and clicking on “Save changes” …
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Is E3 game gathering still influential?  —  Though E3 returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center this year, giant booths like the one above will not be seen.  Instead, the event will be an invite-only affair for press and analysts.  —  The video game industry's best-known event, E3 …
Discussion: BBC NEWS
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Buy.com Deal With EBay Angers Sellers  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The golden era of the small seller on eBay, hawking gewgaws and knickknacks from the basement or garage, is coming to a noisy and ignominious end.  —  Consumers appear to be tiring of online auctions, and rivals like Amazon.com …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder First Live Shots  —  The burning question answered by these pics from CrackBerry: What does the touchscreen BlackBerry's keyboard look like?  As rumored, landscape gets you full QWERTY, while portrait mode drops you to SureType to squeeze in all the buttons.
Discussion: Fast Company and Electronista
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Live Pics of the BlackBerry Thunder!
 
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