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Apple:
Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend — Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 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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Digital Daily, TechCrunch, Apple 2.0, Ars Technica, Between the Lines, Guardian Unlimited, Boy Genius Report, Mashable!, I4U News, Web Worker Daily, Social Media and GigaOM
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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.
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Mark Evans, The Social Times, WebProNews, All Points Blog and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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 …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Tech Trader Daily and Consumer Passion
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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Apple:
iPhone App Store Downloads Top 10 Million in First Weekend — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ and iPod® touch users have already downloaded more than 10 million applications from its groundbreaking new App Store since its launch late last week.
Michael White / Bloomberg:
Sony's PlayStation 3 Gaining Ground on Xbox With Games, Blu-Ray — Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, the 2007 loser in the fight for second place in video-game console sales, is gaining ground on Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. — The PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in the U.S. in the first five months …
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PS3 Fanboy, Destructoid, VentureBeat, Boing Boing Gadgets, Kotaku, GamesIndustry.biz and GoNintendo
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PC World:
3G iPhone's Mediocre Battery Life Still Beats Rivals — The 3G iPhone's sub-6-hour battery life gets a word score of fair from the PC World Test Center, but it still beats out other 3G handsets. — Yardena Arar, PC World — Recommends — The battery life on Apple's new 3G iPhone isn't great …
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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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
NBC Goes For Web Gold — Net close to Olympics sell-out; preps for record traffic — NBC is 85 percent sold out of online ad inventory for its Summer Olympics coverage, which kicks off Aug. 8 in Beijing. The company has signed on McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson, Hilton, Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch, among other brands.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Veoh Targets Video Ads Based On Past Viewing Patterns — If behavioral targeting is the great hope for display advertising on the Web, can it work for videos as well? Web video startup Veoh thinks it can and is bringing its behavioral targeting advertising program out of beta today.
InfoWorld:
Enterprises become the battleground for social networking — The battle to provide social networking in the enterprise is under way between solutions from established software vendors and readily available offerings such as Facebook and LinkedIn, with these sites possessing a lot of momentum …
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Datamation
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 …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Bezos Gets His Game On — With an undisclosed investment in Social Gaming Network by his personal fund, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is proving Om right. Back in May, when Bezos invested in Kongregate, another casual gaming site, Om thought it might be the first of many.
