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Jul 14 2008 12:00am EDT

Last Bytes: Apple, Facebook, Palm, more...

-- Apple said it sold 1 million iPhones and served 10 million application downloads from its App Store over the weekend. Not surprisingly, the company didn't mention Friday's activation debacle. [Apple]

-- Facebook is getting ready to unveil its redesign. OMG, the profile picture is now on the right! Oh, the humanity! [Industry Standard]

-- Palm has released a new version of its Treo handset. Good timing, guys. [Reuters]

-- Guns N' Roses is releasing a new song...on the video game Rock Band 2. Could this mean that its new album Chinese Democracy -- which lead singer Axl Rose has been working on since last century -- is coming soon? [NYT]

-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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