June 23, 2009 Tuesday
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NEW YORK - APPLE 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.

The statement from Apple also included a quote from Chief Executive Steve Jobs, leading at least one analyst to speculate that this meant he was back from medical leave.

 
Renewable energy creates jobs

VIENNA - MORE investment in renewable energy would create much-needed jobs at a time when the world is struggling with rising unemployment, experts said Monday.

Kandeh K. Yumkella, director-general of the UN Industrial Development Organization and Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spoke at the start of a conference about energy issues in the context of the current global economic crisis.

2nd Google phone in Aug

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

The 'T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google' will be a touch-screen phone and will lack the physical keyboard of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone that used Google Inc's Android software. The G1 went on sale in October. T-Mobile has sold more than 1 million of the phones.

Jobs' first speech since January

NEW YORK - APPLE chief executive Steve Jobs, in his first statement since taking a medical leave of absence in January, announced on Monday that the company has sold more than one million of its new iPhone model in three days.

'Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,' Jobs said in a written statement.

   
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