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12:25 PM ET, June 22, 2009

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Apple:
Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models  —  iPhone 3.0 Software Downloads Reach Six Million  —  Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch.  In addition, six million customers …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Munster: Apple sold 750,000 iPhones last weekend  —  UPDATE: Make that 1 million.  See below  —  Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster issued a report early Monday that may draw some attention away from Steve Jobs' health and put it back on the bright and shiny object Apple (AAPL) released last Friday.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3GS Selling As Quickly As iPhone 3G
Discussion: Boy Genius Report
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
T-Mobile Will Drop Its Second Android Phone, The myTouch 3G, This August For $199.  —  As the first Android phone, T-Mobile's G1 was a much welcomed entry into the smartphone market.  And it may have been considered the must-have smartphone were it not for a certain device from Apple.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Geodelic Raised $3.5 Million For Location-Aware Recommendations
Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Web Spying Gets Western Aid  —  European Gear Used in Vast Effort to Monitor Communications  —  By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS in New York and LORETTA CHAO in Beijing  —  The Iranian regime has quietly developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies …
John Lauerman / Bloomberg:
Jobs's Pancreatic Cancer Is One of Few That Liver Transplants May Control  —  Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s chief executive officer, had one of the few types of pancreatic cancers that may be controlled by a liver transplant, doctors said.  —  Jobs, 54, had a transplant about two months ago, a person familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: GMSV and Computerworld Blogs
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple: Bruised or Burnished?  —  The market has had a weekend to absorb news of Steve Jobs' liver transplant and the successful launch of the iPhone 3G S. How will investors react?  —  If ever there were a moment to leak potentially explosive news about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
When It Comes To Search Trends, Google Is Lagging Behind Bing  —  As Microsoft tries to take away market share from Google with its new search engine, Bing, it is battling Google feature by feature.  One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends.
Jay Yagnik / The Official Google Blog:
A new landmark in computer vision  —  Science fiction books and movies have long imagined that computers will someday be able to see and interpret the world.  At Google, we think computer vision has tremendous potential benefits for consumers, which is why we're dedicated to research in this area.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:   Google's vision improving for image search
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies  —  The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday.  —  This would, for the first time, bring bloggers under FTC guidelines …
Discussion: Windows Connected
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Alex Williams / New York Times:
Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners  —  For the first half-hour of the meeting, it was hardly surprising to see a potential client fiddling with his iPhone, said Rowland Hobbs, the chief executive of a marketing firm in Manhattan.  —  At an hour, it seemed a bit much.
Discussion: blogs.chron.com and UMBC ebiquity, Thanks:atul
Tiphereth / Social Media Today:
How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study  —  Habitat is a trendy furniture store, set up by Terence Conran in the 1970s, for those who've never been to the UK its like a slightly more upmarket version of Ikea.  @HabitatUK turned up on Twitter a couple of days ago …
DSLreports:
Verizon Announces New FiOS Tiers, Promotions - 10/2 and 20/5 tiers upgraded to 25/15, new netbook offer...  There's confirmation this morning on a slew of changes coming to Verizon's FiOS tier lineup that we were the first to report last week.  While there's no official press release yet …
New York Times:
Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On a PC, having to fill out a form and type in a credit card number to buy something is only mildly annoying.  On a cellphone, it could make you want to skip the purchase entirely.  —  This is why investors …
Discussion: I4U News and Payments News
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Bing mobile application concepts  —  The Live Search mobile application, although as crippled it is outside of the United States, is still a very cool mobile search application that featured intelligent voice search and location-based search capabilities only recently Google could match on the iPhone Google app.
Discussion: WMPoweruser.com and WMExperts
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
To Build Display, Yahoo Joins Self-Serve Ad Fray  —  Targets Small Marketers and Those It Hopes to Convert From Search  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Klaussner Home Furnishings, a 2,000-employee regional furniture manufacturer and retailer in Asheboro, N.C., doesn't exactly fit the profile of a typical Yahoo advertiser.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
LG Electronics adopts ARM processors in TVs — to help with Web 2.0 features  —  LG Electronics, the world's second largest maker of televisions, has adopting ARM's processors in its line-up of future digital TVs, one more sign of momentum for ARM (ARM.L).  —  ARM's chip designs have become popular …
Brian X. Chen / Epicenter:
How Apple, AT&T Are Closing the Mobile Web  —  A growing chorus claims that Apple's questionable approval policy for its iPhone application store raises issues with net neutrality.  —  Free Press, a group that advocates the idea of an open internet — that is, one in which consumers …
Discussion: Guardian, Thanks:atul
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
FitOrbit Launches With Heavy Backers, Connects You To Real Personal Fitness Trainers Online  —  Today sees the launch of FitOrbit, a service that aims to remove the disadvantages associated with working with real life personal trainers for one-on-one fitness and meal plans.
Discussion: GigaOM and Mashable!
John Edwards / LinuxWorld.com:
Open-Source Routers Are Becoming an IT Option  —  The technology is slowly gaining the confidence of some early adopters.  —  Many large IT operations are extensively using open-source technology — in operating systems, applications, development tools and databases.  So why not in routers, too?
BBC:
Google to cut China porn results  —  Google says it will take “all necessary steps” to remove pornography from its Chinese language portal, Google.cn  —  The firm was responded to criticism from China's internet watchdog which said Google was “disseminating pornographic and vulgar information”.
Discussion: Fast Company, Mashable! and AppScout
 
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
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Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance
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Super-filtered #IranElection info for the easily overwhelmed
Discussion: broadstuff
Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:
Start-ups stifled by noncompetes
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Track is Back! Steve Gillmor Rejoices
Discussion: Softpedia News and TheNextWeb.com
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien:
Twitter Tracker Returns!
Discussion: Switched
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Google Opens Up Digital-Education Portal
Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Thanks:atul
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Apple Issuing $30 iTunes Store Credit For iPhone 3GS/AT&T Activation Snafu
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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