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App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple (NewsFactor) - NewsFactor - When Apple opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, tools, and other applications for cell phones was a rarity. Handset owners could buy apps from their carriers or the occasional niche site. But these days, the app store concept is becoming commonplace. The question is, does the world need a warren of wireless app stores?
Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive (AP) -

Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, pictured in 2007. Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker cut its third quarter market share guidance, sending its share price tumbling.(AFP/File/Antti Aimo-Koivisto)AP - Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.


Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps (AP) - AP - NEW YORK — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.
Appirio opts for the cloud over servers (InfoWorld) - InfoWorld - Can a business be run solely in the cloud without a server anywhere in sight? Appirio says it can and is already doing it.
Nokia losing market share as price war bites (Reuters) - Reuters - Nokia Oyj (NOK1V.HE), the world's biggest cellphone maker, said it expects to lose market share in the third quarter as it fights to maintain profit margins, sending its shares as much as 14 percent lower.
Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old (AP) -

Google Technology Director Craig Silverstein, who was Google's first employee, sits on his beanbag chair in his office at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.


Green news harvest: Stolen solar panels, hydrogen at home (CNET) - CNET - A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary.
Russia's MTS to sell Apple iPhone (AP) -

Customers queue to buy Apple's new 3G iPhone in Tokyo in July 2008. China Mobile, the country's largest handset operator, is in the final stages of talks with Apple to launch the iPhone in China, the world's largest mobile phone market, state media have reported.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AP - Russia's number one cell operator MTS said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Russia.