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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
IPhone Software Sales Take Off: Apple's Jobs — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple Inc.'s bet on cellphone software appears to be paying off. — In the month since Apple opened an online software clearinghouse called the App Store, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their Usage? — The iPhone App Store is red hot: In its first month, more than 60 million software programs were downloaded, and it generated about $1 million a day in sales. That information comes from Steve Jobs in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
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Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Analyst: 3 million iPhones sold in first month — Momentum isn't showing any signs of a dip; sales blow past expectations. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — Talk about your summer scorchers. — One month after its debut, Apple's new iPhone has hit the 3 million sold mark, according to analyst Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative.
Kenneth G. Brill / Forbes:
Servers: Why Thrifty Isn't Nifty — We are currently in the biggest data center construction boom in history. At the same time, this boom is dramatically weakening the future flexibility and financial performance of information technology. — How can this be? It's the old domino effect at work again.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
The Olympics Watch: Not That Much — The Internet did not break, melt or probably even much notice the Olympics, in its first weekend. — On Saturday, for instance, only about 4.8 million people watched 3.1 million video streams on Saturday, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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Caroline McCarthy / Crave:
Best Buy kiosks, coming to an airport near you — Electronics retailer Best Buy is picking up on the trend of installing vending machine-like kiosks in airports, in order to appeal to stressed travelers who left their cell phone charger at home or need a last-minute gift to appease cranky relatives.
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Bryan Appleyard / Times of London:
Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop — Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world's poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it... Mousetrap weblog: In pictures - the revamped $100 laptop
Business Wire:
JDA Software Group to Acquire i2 Technologies — Acquisition Combines Two Industry Leaders Resulting in One of the Most Comprehensive Global Supply Chain Management Offerings — Strengthens JDA Market Position with More Than 6,000 Customers, Offering Unparalleled Supply Chain …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Sold At Last: JDA Software To Buy i2 For $14.86/Shr — After months of reviewing “strategic alternatives,” i2 (ITWO) today agreed to be acquired by JDA Software (JDAS) for $14.86 a share in cash. (That's a pretty modest premium to Friday's closing level of $14.16.)
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Salon launches blogger ‘tipping’ system — So you liked that blog post you just read—why don't you toss the writer a buck or two? — That's the rationale behind new-media outlet Salon's latest initiative. Members of its “Open Salon” user-generated content community can now “tip” …
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Jay Phillips / Adhearsion Blog:
What We're Not Admitting about Asterisk — It's time to clear up several restraining misconceptions in the telephony space. These are points I outlined during my presentation at AsteriskTag in Berlin recently, though they bear repeating for everyone's sake. — This post is not the end of the discussion.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Boston Subway System Stops Defcon Talk; But Paints Security Target On Its Back — You would think after years and years of it backfiring every time some scared organization tries to shut down a talk concerning their security vulnerabilities, that people wouldn't even bother any more.
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David Carr / New York Times:
All of Us, the Arbiters of News — Early on in any journalist's career, the young reporter is besieged by advice from all sides. Flacks, sources and run-of-the-mill busybodies will pound on the phone about why the reporter isn't covering this or that story.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Exposes Part Of Google Search Deal Terms In SEC Document — Both Reuters and CNET report on a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Yahoo that contains many of the details of its paid search deal with Google. It's a redacted version of the agreement the two companies signed.
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Andrew Binstock / InfoWorld:
Is unit testing doomed? — San Francisco - The agile revolution that began in software development in the 1990s has been inexorably making its way into mainstream IT organizations. Today, one of the most adopted agile practices is unit testing, where developers write hundreds of small tests for exercising their own code.
