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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.

Want to find a reusable photo for a blog or web site post, but concerned (naturally) about possible licensing issues? While there are already some ways to search for such images and content, Google remains the first search engine of choice for most folks. On Thursday they added functionality to Image Search to help in these sorts of queries.

Obviously a feat of CGI, the Evian Roller babies YouTube video has gone viral. Released on July 2nd, the ad has been viewed over 5 million times already (adding together the U.S. and International versions).

One of the causes of erroneously sent emails is the human at the end of the Send button. This is why Gmail Labs' Undo Send feature is helpful. Of course, that's Gmail. What about the mistakes we humans make in the workplace?

The just-released beta of Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2010 is more notable for what's under the hood than what you actually see.

Job seekers line up for a career fair, last Thursday in Oak Brook, Illinois. 12 warning signs 1. The job offers very high pay, often including pledges that the income will generate itself.

Investigators are piecing together details about one of the most aggressive computer attacks in recent memory - a powerful "denial-of-service" assault that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies, companies and institutions, in some cases for days.

GOOGLE has plans for its own personal computer operating system, the company announced on its official blog, setting up another clash between the Internet search king and software giant Microsoft.

Having screwed up MySpace, the old newspaper publisher may be willing to climb back on the social-networking horse by acquiring the 140-character social network. Best Selling Plasma TV Stands

The Internet managed to weather the storm of Michael Jackson video watching on Tuesday. Starting at 10 AM PDT (with some streams starting earlier), coverage began on a number of sites.

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.

What will probably be the most viewed funeral of all time will take place at 10AM PDT, 1PM EDT today, as Michael Jackson's funeral takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. For those people not lucky enough to win the ticket lottery for 8,750 tickets, or not rich enough to buy them off of eBay or Craigslist, how to watch, particularly if one is at work?

Hershey, Pa. The Hershey Co. announced it is closing its Hershey Gifts online and catalog service, effective July 31. Motorcycle GPS.

Songbirds and Warner Bros. cartoon character Tweety Bird had best beware: Twitter is attempting to trademark the term "Tweet." Don't bother checking your calendar; it's July, not April (Fool's Day).

As I've said before, you need to be careful what you post on social networking sites like Facebook. It can get you fired, or in this case, expose the personal details of the new head of the U.K.'s MI6.

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.

Virtual goods are big business nowadays, in online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft, so much so there is discussion over taxing profits made from such goods. Real as the virtual reality is, someone in the online game EVE Online stole virtual money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for real cash.

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.

Facebook will simplify the way in which it offers privacy options to its users, as it gets ready to give its members for the first time the option to make the content they post on their profiles available to anyone on the Internet.