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Seven Weeks On, iPhone 3G Still Sells Out Daily
AP - Sun Aug 31, 2:35 PM ETSAN FRANCISCO - Seven weeks after its launch, Apple's iPhone 3G is still selling out at stores across the country by midmorning, a run of demand that has analysts recalibrating the size of the smartphone market.
» Full Story- Google's Answer to the iPhone Nears Its Debut Reuters - Sat Aug 30, 1:59 PM ET
The first mobile phone to run Google's Android software is expected to be unveiled by T-Mobile USA this month, setting up the fall's most-watched technology duel: Google's open platform against Apple's closed empire. - Apple Invites Press to Sept. 9 Event; New iPods Expected AP - Tue Aug 26, 4:08 PM ET
Apple Inc. on Tuesday invited reporters to a Sept. 9 event in San Francisco headlined "Let's Rock," setting off the annual guessing game over new iPods — and the customary frenzy over what Steve Jobs might have up his black sleeve. - Microsoft Enlists Seinfeld in $300 Million Bid to Fix Windows' Image AP - Thu Aug 28, 4:44 PM ET
Microsoft is paying Jerry Seinfeld a reported $10 million to star alongside Bill Gates in a $300 million advertising campaign — a bid to rescue Windows from Apple's smug "I'm a Mac" ads and the troubled reputation of Windows Vista. - Google Readies Its Own Web Browser, Taking On Microsoft and Firefox Reuters - Sun Aug 31, 4:20 PM ET
Google is set to enter the browser wars this week with software called Chrome, according to people briefed on the project — a move that would put the search giant in direct competition with both Microsoft's Internet Explorer and its longtime partner Firefox. - Yahoo! Settles In for a Fight Over Its Future After Icahn Truce Reuters - Fri Aug 29, 6:19 PM ET
With its annual meeting behind it and activist investor Carl Icahn settled onto its board, Yahoo! Inc. faces the question it has dodged all year: what, exactly, is its plan to catch Google — and can co-founder Jerry Yang sell it? - Facebook Tops 100 Million Users — and Endures a Revolt Over Its Redesign AP - Tue Aug 26, 1:12 PM ET
Facebook said this week it has passed 100 million active users, a milestone reached four years after Mark Zuckerberg founded the site in a Harvard dorm — even as a vocal chunk of those users protests the site's sweeping redesign. - Six Internet Providers Disclose Web Tracking for Ads AP - Sun Aug 31, 2:35 PM ET
Six Internet service providers have acknowledged to Congress that they used or tested technology that tracks customers' Web surfing to target advertising — a disclosure fueling a Washington fight over online privacy. - Satellite Phones Make Cowboys of Wildfire Sentinels AP - Sat Aug 30, 1:59 PM ET
Alone on a ridge with a lightning storm rolling in, a fire lookout used to be the loneliest job in the West. This summer, the Forest Service's remote sentinels got satellite phones — and a direct line to the cavalry. - FAA Outage Reveals Odd, Fragile Computing Practices AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:08 PM ET
The computer failure that snarled air traffic across the country last week has been traced to a single corrupted file in one of the Federal Aviation Administration's two flight-plan processing systems — and to the discovery that both systems were running on the same aging network. - Soft Economy Speeds Newspaper Decline and Newsroom Job Cuts AP - Fri Aug 29, 6:19 PM ET
The newspaper industry is cutting jobs at the fastest pace in decades as the weak economy accelerates the flight of advertising to the internet, with more than 5,000 newsroom and business-side positions eliminated this year alone. - Netflix Pushes 'Watch Instantly' as Streaming Picks Up Speed AP - Thu Aug 28, 2:47 PM ET
Netflix says its "Watch Instantly" streaming service is growing faster than expected, and the DVD-by-mail pioneer is betting that living-room devices — starting with Microsoft's Xbox 360 this fall — will finally bring internet video to the couch.
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