PC World - Tired of the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre madness and looking for something different?

Reuters - Chinese Internet users are calling on fellow web surfers to stay offline on July 1, the debut of a controversial software filter that critics say the Chinese government is using to tighten censorship.

PC World - Just like T-Mobile USA's first Android phone, the new myTouch will feature Google applications and is made by HTC. But unlike the original G1 phone, it won't have a physical keyboard.

InfoWorld - Bottom Line The iPhone 3G S handset is well appointed, functional, and nicely packaged, but it’s not at the high-end of the smartphone hardware scale.

PC World - When security expert Bruce Schneier tried to sell a used laptop on eBay, he thought it would be easy. Instead, a sale was aborted twice -- first by a scammer using a hacked eBay account and then by a buyer who tried to trick Schneier into sending her the laptop after she cancelled payment.

Reuters - The tough economic present is hitting the turnout by ad industry future gazers debating hot topics like mobile advertising and smart phones at this week's Cannes festival.

Reuters - Tennis fans at Wimbledon will be able to keep up with the action using a smartphone application developed by IBM, which it said could transform the way spectators access information at sporting events.

AP - Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of its latest iPhone model in the first three days, making it the most successful model yet.

Reuters - Apple Inc sold more than 1 million units of its newest iPhone, the 3GS, in the first three days of launch, the company said on Monday.

Macworld.com - Apple announced Monday that it has sold more than 1 million iPhone 3GS models since they went on sale Friday, June 19, 2009.

PC World - Late last week, Sony dropped news of its 'affordable' entertainment notebooks ($880 isn't too shabby for a notebook sporting a Blu-Ray drive, but still . . .). Of course, it didn't take Acer long to fire back with bargain deal of its own. Acer's new line of budget-friendly Aspires promise full-size performance, but in a netbook's price range. And a $749 all-purpose all-star that offers a Blu-ray drive.

AP - T-Mobile USA's follow-up to the first 'Google phone' will go on sale in early August, the carrier said Monday.

AP - Washington has expressed concern to Beijing over its new effort to censor Internet use and its possible impact on trade and access to information, the U.S. Embassy said Monday.

AFP - Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, in his first statement since taking a medical leave of absence in January, announced on Monday that one million new iPhones have been sold in just three days.

Reuters - Kodachrome, the film brand touted as the stuff of memories, is about to become a memory itself as Eastman Kodak stops production due to overwhelming competition from digital cameras.

NewsFactor - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is coming to Sony's PlayStation Portable. Rockstar Games said the Nintendo DS game will be adapted to the PSP platform and be available this fall.

Reuters - Apple Inc said it had sold more than 1 million of its newest iPhone in the first three days of launch, beating analysts' expectations for the 3GS smartphone's debut.

PC World - There was a time when it looked like HD-DVD would be winner in the battle to bring high-definition to computers and video players. Then the momentum suddenly swung to a competing standard called Blu-ray. Now, it looks like Blu-Ray is in trouble, but not from HD-DVD.

PC World - Not to burst anyone's balloon, but the iPhone 3G S isn't a world-changer--unless you've never had an iPhone, of course. For the rest of us, it's simply the world's most successful 'speed bump' for an existing product.

PC World - Can T-Mobile's myTouch 3G woo the mobile-phone masses? Does it have what it takes to convince T-Mobile G1 owners to upgrade or is it cool enough to convince the iPhone-envious to take the myTouch plunge? I say T-Mobile's myTouch 3G offers too little, too late. Here is why.

PC World - Tired of the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre madness and looking for something different?

Macworld.com - Seagate announced Monday a new Network Attached Storage (NAS) system for small businesses - the BlackArmor NAS 220. The system will be released in July in 2 terabyte (TB) and 4TB configurations for $430 and $700 respectively.

Macworld.com - About halfway through writing the enormous tome of an iPhone 3.0 review, I realized that there just wasn’t enough room. For every huge new feature, like landscape keyboard, cut-and-paste, etc., it seemed like there were a dozen more smaller improvements and enhancements that cried out for equal attention.

Macworld.com - Dunkin’ Donuts, the popular fast food chain famous for its coffee and baked goods, has released Dunkin’ Run, a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s designed to make it easier for Dunkin’ Donuts customers to make group orders — a social application, according to the press release.

Macworld.com - In a stunning development—okay, not so much a 'stunning development' as a nice little gesture—Apple has been sending out apologetic e-mails to those of the over a million iPhone 3G S customers who were unfortunate enough to run into activation issues with their brand new gadget.

NewsFactor - The initial iPhone 3GS numbers are in -- and Apple's CEO is back in the news. Apple said it sold more than one million iPhone 3GS smartphones over the weekend.

PC World - Apple said Monday it has sold more than one million iPhone 3G S models during the first three days of the device's launch. That's the same vague number Apple used last year after the predecessor iPhone 3G had been on the market for one weekend. In its press release, Apple did not specify whether the newer iPhone's sales are better than its predecessor's; however, some publications are reporting the 3G S outperformed the 3G.

PC World - Own a Kindle and an iPhone? If you were hoping to take that copy of Lisa See's Shanghai Girls to the beach with you in your back pocket think again. That's because the restrictions on books you buy and downloaded to your Kindle may not be transferable to the iPhone's Kindle App. These restrictions stink and lesson the appeal of the Kindle and the ultra-portability of digital books.

PC Magazine - Apple said Monday that the company has sold one million units of its new iPhone 3G S phone, about the same as iPhone 3G sales during its opening weekend.

AFP - The 23-year old medical student accused of killing a prostitute he met after answering an Internet ad on the popular Craigslist website, pleaded not guilty Monday in a Boston, Massachusetts courtroom.

Reuters - Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said on Monday it hopes to close its $650 million acquisition of Nortel Networks' advanced wireless technology business by the third quarter of this year.

PC Magazine - Verizon on Monday unveiled faster pricing tiers for its FiOS Internet service and announced a promotion that will provide new residential customers with the choice of a free netbook or Flip camcorder.

AFP - The United States has expressed concern over a new rule that all computers sold in China be rigged with Internet filtering software, a US official said here Monday, amid fears for online freedom.

PC World - ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor on Monday is announcing the Infor Flex, a program it says will make it logistically and financially easier for customers to upgrade or switch to other Infor products.

PC Magazine - Mozilla on Monday unveiled the second release candidate (RC) for Firefox 3.5, with some nifty features including faster JavaScript and an 'undo close' window.

PC Magazine - On Monday, HP announced what it calls the world's first Web-connected printer, the Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web. It lets users view and customize specialized content, such as pictures and maps, from the Internet and print them out.

NewsFactor - The number of Android phones available in the U.S. doubled with T-Mobile's launch Monday of the myTouch 3G. The smartphone follows the successful launch last year of the T-Mobile G1, the first device to use the Google-backed, open-source mobile operating system.

PC World - Digital distribution may be picking up steam (pun intended) but don't tell GameStop. The video games retail behemoth with over 6,000 stores in some 17 countries worldwide seems determined to play down the relevance of downloadable games at all costs. Citing Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia, IndustryGamers reports that GameStop doesn't expect digital distribution to be a threat to stucco-and-rebar-retail until 2014.

AFP - US telecom carrier T-Mobile announced on Monday that the latest version of a touch-screen smartphone featuring Google's Android software would be available in August.

InfoWorld - Providing an assist to IT shops looking to implement an enterprise architecture, The Open Group on Monday is offering is offering a tool to help with putting TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) 9 into action.

Macworld.com - After a public beta testing period, iFinance 3 is now out in a final version. The personal financial management software from Synium Software helps you keep track of bank accounts, stock performance, and other aspects of your financial portfolio.

AP - This week, Apple Inc. wasn't shy about touting the sales of its latest mobile device. But the company didn't say anything confirming reports from over the weekend that co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago.

AFP - Hewlett Packard unveiled a printer on Monday with a built-in Web connection that allows printing directly from the Internet without a personal computer.

AFP - Apple announced Monday that more than one million new iPhones have been sold in just three days and released the first public comment from chief executive Steve Jobs since he went on medical leave of absence in January.

AFP - The United States raised concerns to China about its new rule requiring Internet filtering software in computers after US businesses voiced unease, a US official said Monday.

AFP - A US computer trade association expressed concern Monday over reports that Iran was using Western-supplied technology to crack down on political opponents online.

Reuters - Steve Jobs was quoted in a press release and reportedly spotted at the Apple campus on Monday, raising speculation that the chief executive may have returned to work.

InfoWorld - Looking to leap ahead in the Web data services market -- which includes mashups -- Kapow Technologies on Tuesday will ship Kapow Web Data Server 7.0, offering what the company says are enterprise capabilities in scalability, performance, and security.

InfoWorld - Mozilla has published a release candidate for the Firefox 3.5 browser that is downloadable from the Mozilla Web site, a company representative said on Monday.

Macworld.com - Apple’s newest aluminum MacBook Pros are pretty slick in most regards, but some investigative folks had discovered what they believed to be a shortcoming in the models: in some units the SATA drive interface ran at a mere measly 1.5Gbps when even its predecessor, the non-Pro 13-inch MacBook, supported double that speed.

Investor's Business Daily - Known for making adrenaline-pumping action games for young men, video game companies now are getting in touch with their feminine side.

Reuters - Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs showed up for work on Monday and was spotted leaving the main corporate campus in Cupertino, California, a Reuters witness said.

InfoWorld - Recognizing that developers these days must program for multicore processors, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday is releasing an upgrade to its native development tools package geared to this new responsibility.

Reuters - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs was at the company's headquarters on Monday, underscoring speculation the pancreatic cancer survivor may have returned to work.

PC World - Alan Ralsky, a spam kingpin who was convicted of felony bank fraud in 1995, could face more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty in a stock fraud case involving spam messages that pumped up Chinese 'penny' stocks.