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Jul 10 2008 12:00am EDT

Last Bytes: Apple, Google, BlackBerry

-- Apple, preparing to launch the new iPhone, opens up the App Store. Time stands still. Commerce comes to a halt. The world's warring factions lay down their arms. [Portfolio.com]

-- But not everything is rosy for Apple: users are chapped over Thursday's MobileMe outage. "Very very very very very very annoying," said one user. Get it together, Steve! [ComputerWorld]

-- Note to Larry Flynt. No sex in Google's new virtual world, Lively. [SAI]

-- The F.C.C. has approved the BlackBerry Bold. What's a BlackBerry? [Boy Genius Report]

-Sam Gustin. □


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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