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5:40 PM ET, June 28, 2010

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iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million — Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap …

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Despite Glitches, iPhone 4 is Apple's Biggest Launch Ever

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, MediaPost, Bits, BetaNews, Fortune, FierceWireless, blogs.chron.com, Electronista and silicontap.com

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft starts sharing Windows 8 plans with PC partners — Windows 8 (which my sources claim recently hit Milestone 1) is starting to take shape. — Microsoft's next version of Windows client is far enough along that the Windows team seems to have begun sharing details about its goals with Microsoft's PC partners.

Discussion: Neowin.net, TechSpot, Techie Buzz and AppScout

Stephen Chapman / Microsoft Kitchen:

Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed — A big thanks to @floo1989 for the heads-up! Over the weekend, the Italian Windows site “Windowsette” got a hold of some super secret squirrel Microsoft presentations apparently laying around on the internet somewhere.

Discussion: Microsoft Watch

Manan / I'm Just Being Manan:
[Screenshots] Kinect's Windows 8 Implementation

Discussion: CNET News, microsoft-journal …, 901am, Obsessable, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz and The Next Web, Thanks:indyan

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

A Look at Who's Getting What on Apple's IAds — Though Complexity, Delays Mean Most Won't Hit July 1 Rollout, Marketers Appear Excited by the Prospects — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The first of Apple's iAds are expected to start popping up on iPhones later this week, but don't expect …

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, 9 to 5 Mac, www.pocketgamer.biz, mocoNews and FierceMobileContent

Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
iPad To Be Blessed By iOS 4 In November According To Apple?

Discussion: MacStories

Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:

Apple IPhone 4 Parts Cost About $188 — Researchers at iSuppli tore down the latest iPhone to find parts from LG Display, Samsung, and Broadcom — Apple's iPhone 4 wireless handset includes components that cost as little as $187.51, according to market research firm iSuppli.

Discussion: App Advice, Computerworld, IntoMobile, Digital Daily, MobileCrunch, CNET News, PC World, AppleInsider, Tech Eye, I4U News, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Geek.com, Fudzilla, Boy Genius Report, MacStories and iSmashPhone

Mickey Kataria / Google Mobile Blog:

Google Docs viewer on Mobile Browsers — (Cross-posted with the Google Docs Blog) — Last week, we announced that the Google Docs viewer supports .doc and .docx attachments. Today we're also releasing a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Droid Life, IntoMobile, PreCentral.net, AppScout, Erictric, The Next Web, Phone Scoop, Google Android News … and MacStories

Amazon.com:

Amazon Announces New Functionality for Kindle Apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch — Readers can now enjoy embedded video and audio clips in Kindle books on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new update to Kindle for iPad and Kindle …

The White House:

Presidential Memorandum: Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution — MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES — America's future competitiveness and global technology leadership depend, in part, upon the availability of additional spectrum.

Discussion: GigaOM, dailywireless.org, techPresident, IntoMobile and Ubergizmo

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Broadband Availability to Expand

Discussion: mocoNews, MediaPost, Engadget, Reuters, Ars Technica, Associated Press, Wireless Week, Dow Jones Newswires, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Telecompetitor, Tech Eye, DSLreports, GMSV, Phone Scoop, FierceWireless and Boy Genius Report

Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
White House backs federal plan for more airwaves for smartphones, wireless broadband

Discussion: eWeek, Black Web 2.0 and Switched

CNET News:

Supreme Court sidesteps software patent issue — Anyone hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court would limit the ability to patent software will be disappointed by Monday's ruling. — The court ruled against patent applicants Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw (PDF), who in 1997 had tried to patent …

Discussion: The Register, TechCrunch, The Microsoft Blog, Ars Technica, Computerworld, ZDNet and On the Docket

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Bilski; Business Method & Software Patents Survive

Discussion: Bloomberg, Patent Law Blog, ReadWriteWeb and tieguy.org

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Elevation Invests Another $120 Million in Facebook as that IPO Looks More Distant — Elevation Partners has quietly amassed another huge chunk of Facebook shares on the secondary market, according to a recent letter to its limited partners. Elevation spent $120 million for five million more Facebook shares.

Discussion: VatorNews, MediaPost, Inside Facebook, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Fast Company, All Facebook, Pulse2, VentureBeat and Venture Capital Dispatch

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hiring 500 People In India

Discussion: Inside Facebook, Digital Daily, Business Standard, Times of India and VentureBeat

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:

Facebook grabs Chrome OS engineering director, VMWare VP — Facebook continues to be a Hoover for talent. The social network hired Matt Papakipos, a Google engineering director who oversaw development of Chrome OS, and Jocelyn Goldfein, a seven-year VMWare veteran and vice president, it said today.

Discussion: CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook and Mashable!

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google: Chrome OS Still On Track For This Year Thanks To “Deep Bench Of Talent”

Discussion: Computerworld

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

What iPhone? Here Come FOUR MORE Android Phones From Samsung (AAPL, GOOG) — One of Google Android's strengths relative to Apple's iPhone — at least from a market share and platform adoption perspective — is that it's quickly getting sprayed everywhere.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile and MediaMemo

Bonnie Cha / Crave: The gadget blog:
Samsung Galaxy S models announced for Sprint, Verizon, U.S. Cellular

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks — Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web - but what makes people want to do that at all? — Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week …

Discussion: MediaPost and Screenwerk, Thanks:the_spinmd

Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:

Google's mismanagement of the Android Market — Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google's response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users' permission to access sensitive information”.

Discussion: Fast Company, ZDNet, www.pocketgamer.biz, The Register, John Battelle's Searchblog and FM Blog, Thanks:atul

Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:

Rumor: Droid 2 will launch with Android 2.2 on August 23rd — A trustworthy source has just informed us that Verizon will be launching the Motorola Droid 2 on August 23rd. We recently got to go hands on with the device and the hardware was finalized so we believe that Verizon planned …

Discussion: IntoMobile, AlienBabelTech, Engadget, Droid Life, Erictric, Gizmodo Australia, PhoneDog.com, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo and Phone Arena

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

AT&T Tricks Zuckerberg And Benioff Into Buying MicroCells; Promptly Fails — Oh, AT&T. — I've already made my feelings on their MicroCell abundantly clear. Considering the quality of the carrier's network in cities like San Francisco (which is to say, awful), it's a good idea.

Discussion: forums.wireless.att.com

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:

Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization — Listening to marketing messages from companies such as Apple and Google, one might think HTML5, the next-generation Web page standard, is ready to take the Net by storm. — But the words of those producing the specification show …

Discussion: Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv

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