I’m traveling down the Oregon coast this week. I haven’t taken a vacation in…I don’t know how long. I’ll take my netbook, Kindle and phone, but news stories may be thin this week, at least until I get back on Friday.

Thanks for your understanding. Wishing you all a cool summer!
- Sam Churchill
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Apple yesterday reported a strong growth in quarterly profit and revenue, boosted by sales of iPhones during the period. Apple shipped 5.2 million iPhones in the June quarter, 10.2 million iPods, and 2.6 million Macs, the company said. Its iPhone sales represented a 626 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter and helped offset a [...]

Boost Mobile now offers their $50/mo prepaid unlimited service to customers on Sprint’s CDMA wireless network. Previously, Boost offered the $50 plan only to customers using the Nextel network, which uses different technology than the Sprint side. The cheaper offering was designed to spur growth and fill extra network capacity on Nextel.
Sprint now offers its [...]

India’s long-awaited auction of 3G spectrum is expected to generate INR350 billion (US$7.26 billion), reports Reuters, citing the country’s annual budget outlined on Monday. This figure is up 75 percent from an earlier target.
A Light Reading report notes that the budget forecast indicates that the finance ministry has likely got its way in wanting the [...]

Craig Settles reports:

It looks like the long awaited rules for the broadband grants process are finally coming out sometime this afternoon. VP Biden is laying out the vision (not to be confused with the rules) in Erie at the moment. The good stuff should be on the various agency Web sites later.
Here’s my preliminary take [...]