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USATODAY.com - Apple's highly touted iPhone "all but sold out" its initial shipment in both Apple and AT&T stores after just three days of sales, the companies said Monday. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - The ability to view and upload videos to YouTube is coming to some LG Electronics cellphones later this year. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - JBoss is introducing an upgrade to its open source portal software on Monday that features integration with Google Gadgets. Link To Original Article

In the end, the most expensive radio was the best (mysterious fatality aside), the second most was the second best but came with compromises, and the cheap one definitely had some issues. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

AP - Software company SAP AG acknowledged Tuesday that one of its units made "inappropriate downloads" of Oracle Corp. computer code for fixes and support documents, responding to a lawsuit filed by its rival. Link To Original Article

MessageLabs reports a surge in malicious spam aimed at individuals in senior management positions--and their family members. Link To Original Article

BusinessWeek Online - Self-help meets personal finance in On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Personal Finance (Adams Business, June, 2007), a new book aimed at twenty- and thirtysomethings by Harvard Business School graduates Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar. Thakor, 36, and Kedar, 32, wanted to share with their friends the knowledge they gained from working at private money-management firms. Plus, they wanted to provide "actionable" steps to help them get their finances in order. Link To Original Article

Hackers exploit excitement over Apple's smart phone by sending malicious e-mails claiming that recipients have won their own. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - While blogs continue to simmer with complaints from people who waited months to buy an iPhone and now are experiencing problems activating it, AT&T Inc. said Sunday that the situation has improved. Link To Original Article

AP - Amazon.com Inc. will begin selling high-definition independent films in the HD DVD format through its on-demand DVD printing service, the company said late Sunday. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - The seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has become online retailer Amazon's most pre-ordered product, with almost 1.6 million copies bought globally ahead of the book's release on July 21. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Apple Inc. sold about 525,000 iPhones at Apple and AT&T Inc. stores in the first weekend since its June 29 launch, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, citing an analyst. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - The professional critics have offered their iPhone opinions, giving Apple's new cellphone mostly a thumbs up. Now it's time for thousands of consumers to weigh in after they bought iPhones this weekend. The gadget went on sale starting Friday night at nearly 2,000 Apple and AT&T stores after six months of anticipation. USA TODAY heard from more than 350 people who said they bought an iPhone. Based on their first weekend's experience, virtually all of them said they'd do it again. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - India’s business providing software and services to companies outside its borders will grow a healthy 26 to 29 percent this year, the country's main trade association for that sector said Monday. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - IBM will open in France its first nuclear consultancy centre in July, at a time when utilities are looking to build new reactors and stretch the old ones' lifetime, an executive said on Monday. Link To Original Article

A friend and I were discussing the state of software adoption yesterday. Our kids were floating down a river toward us, and we had plenty of time to talk about our respective companies as the kids kept repeating the trip. It struck both of us that the problem with enterprise software is that it tends to forget how people actually work. Things like CRM, ECM, etc., tend to require users to change their normal behavior to fit the application. As a result, they tend to not get used, or at least not unless someone threatens to withhold compensation. In the Web 2.0 world, Tim O'Reilly has spent the last few years advocating "architectures of participation" (meaning, as Tim further clarifies, that "users pursuing their own 'selfish' interests build collective value as an automatic byproduct" of their participation). But in most enterprise software, users must spin extra cycles to provide group value, e.g., they spend all day in e-mail or on the phone but then have to go to a Web page to record their sales activities in a CRM system. Surely we're missing something. ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 by a ratio of over 6 to 1 in June in Japan, a game magazine publisher said, solidifying Nintendo's leading position. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - While many who snapped up Apple Inc.'s iPhone were using the latest must-have gadget even before leaving the store, some buyers were put on hold as they experienced frustrating delays in activating their cell phone service. Link To Original Article

AP - A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial. Link To Original Article

AP - In Dayton, a state employee returns to work to find a $2,000 computer stolen. In Cleveland, someone walks into an unlocked office and takes a $2,200 laptop belonging to the state auditor's office. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Two investors put in the winning bid of $650,100 in a charity auction to break bread with billionaire Warren Buffett. Link To Original Article

PC World - Participants made good progress discussing changes to Internet governance during an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Puerto Rico that closed on Friday, leaders of the organization said. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Proud owners of Apple Inc.'s iPhone raved about their first day with the device on Saturday, but a glitch took the shine off the year's most anticipated device for a few unlucky customers. Link To Original Article