- The Federal Communications Commission said it would look into the exclusive ties in the US that have limited some mobile handsets to particular operators. The promise came as AT&T prepared to welcome another spate of new customers, thanks to its exclusive deal to carry the iPhone in the US. Three students were the first to start lining up to buy the iPhone 3G S in New York, arriving 24 hours before the official Friday morning launch of the device. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicted sales of 500,000 this weekend.
- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion declared itself unperturbed by Apple‘s latest object of desire, as it revealed that it had added 3.8m extra subscribers for the latest quarter. While the company’s momentum continues to be strong, its forecast for the current quarter disappointed some investors and the shares gave up some of their big gains of the past three months.
- Books, once read, are for more than just propping doors open. That’s one of the principles that Google has been working to as it tries to reinvent the paper tome for the digital age. The latest addition to its Google Book Search service: a tool that lets users embed books they like into their blogs, to share with their friends. Along with other innovations, the announcement shows that Google has not been slowed by the controversy surrounding its landmark settlement with book publishers.
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