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by Daniel Colarusso
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iPhone, App Store, and the Future of Cell Phones   Microsoft, Icahn, and Yahoo in Hissing Contest

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Jul 11 2008 12:00am EDT

Last Bytes: Apple, News Corp., VMWare

-- Apple's iPhone goes on sale. Apple's iPhone activation system goes AWOL. Headline of the day: "Six Million iBricks... and Growing."  (Watch John Biggs' video). [TechCrunch]

-- News Corp. won't be taking part in Microsoft's plan to break up Yahoo, says Rupert Murdoch. Also, he lost his wedding ring at a Sun Valley bar. [AP, Reuters]

-- Now that VMware's Diane Greene has been ousted from the company she co-founded 10 years ago, how many female CEOs are there at the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley? Zero. [San Jose Mercury News]

-- Uber-blogger Jason Calacanis has retired from blogging. [Calacanis.com]

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