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On Friday, July 10th, the iTunes App Store turned one year old. Yes, it was only shortly over a year ago that Apple launched the iPhone 3G, an SDK, and the App Store to hold the (currently more than 50,000 apps).

When the iPhone 3GS was announced, AT&T was ridiculed by some because the wireless carrier in the U.S. for the iPhone would not be enabling either MMS or tethering, services that consumers have been waiting for since the first generation iPhone. Now a report by AppModo is stating that both services will be delayed, all the way to September.

To be honest, I expect Microsoft to announce some sort of Family Pack for Windows 7, much as they did for Windows Vista. To this point, there's been no official announcement, but as retailers prep their sites for the October launch of WIndows 7, they have made a few mistakes.

"From the visionary creators of Office 2007 and 2003." Hilarious. This latest promo video for Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 features the grave of Clippy, the annoyingly helpful Office Assistant that thankfully vanished with Office 2007.

Nokia has seemingly been the device manufacturer feeling most of the global pain from the iPhone, but a note issued on Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley notes that in June both Palm's Pre and the iPhone grabbed market share from BlackBerry as well.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely downing a ton of aspirin this morning, as Google has announced that it is developing a PC operating system based on its Chrome browser. Unlike Microsoft's current OS (Vista) and upcoming one (7), it will be all shiny and new (like Chrome!), not full of legacy code.

Have you picked yourself off the floor yet? It's no lie, Google Apps, which includes Gmail, is finally out of beta. Gmail had been in beta for five years.

On Tuesday Palm officially announced plans to launch the Palm Pre in the U.K. and Europe "in time for the holidays." First to get the nascent smartphone will be the UK, Ireland and Germany (exclusively on O2), and Spain (exclusively on Movistar).

Swiss VC giant Index Ventures has appointed former Cisco and Joost executive Mike Volpi as a partner.

Circuit City. Linens 'N Things. Bombay Co. They're all out of business, their stores shuttered, many employees laid off.

Consider the most successful celebrity news destinations online, and something else jumps to the top.

Firing the latest salvo in a bidding brawl, data storage company EMC Corp. boosted its offer for Data Domain which has already accepted a lower bid from NetApp Inc.

You can't get something for nothing. And despite what Apple said about the battery life of the new iPhone 3GS (improved!), I had my doubts. My own experience is that battery life is less, and that's echoed by complaints making the rounds of news services and the Internet.

As I grow older, I find that I am less likely to be able to drink a soda and make it through a long movie. When is the best time to go? Generally, I have to guess. With an iPhone or iPod Touch and a new app, the guesswork may be over.

George Hotz, AKA Geohot, who came up with the first unlock for the original iPhone, has beaten the iPhone Dev Team to the punch. He's released a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS code-named purplera1n.

A leaked AT&T memo notes that the launch day for the iPhone 3GS generated their "best-ever sales day in our retail stores." Note, this is for AT&T stores, not Apple stores. Unfortunately, while the memo had some numbers regarding text messages on the day Michael Jackson died, it had nothing numbers-wise about the iPhone 3GS, but lots of superlatives.

The U.S. Justice Department has intervened in a so-called 'whistleblower' lawsuit that accuses several companies and former government employees of rigging a winning bid on a $3.2 billion computer contract at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Technology Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google Microsoft Bing search site Bing garners 8.23 percent of market, as Google falls to 78.48 pct in June from 78.72 pct in May LONDON/SEATTLE - Reuters Last updated on Wednesday, Jul.

Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. plans to open an East Coast regional data center near Buffalo.