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Apple doesn't talk much publicly, but when it does, it's usually bragging about its awesome products or some special milestone it's achieved. Monday was no different: Apple announced that it had sold more than 1 million iPhone 3G S models over its launch weekend. To put this in summer blockbuster movie opening perspective, the 3G S grossed at least $199 million at the box office in three days.

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Residents of major US cities that have had near-unusable 3G since the iPhone 3G's launch should finally get relief in the months ahead, AT&T says. Meanwhile, Palm is getting its own relief via breakthrough sales of its Pre smartphone, but Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is getting no break frp, Warren Buffett, who says the executive violated good business principles by keeping his liver transplant a secret.

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The public relations strategists at Apple might want to consider a job in politics for their next gig: It is rare for any company to be so deliberately opaque with information essential to stockholders -- and still manage to stay on this side of the law. Indeed, the company's recent disclosure that CEO Steve Jobs was back at work was a thing of Machiavellian beauty.

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