Apple has sold a total of 17 million iPhones -- including sales of both the original iPhone and iPhone 3G -- since launch, according to the company's vice president of iPod and iPhone product marketing.

Speaking at the launch of Apple's iPhone 3.0 software last week, Joswiak said the figure which includes 13.7 million iPhones sold in 2008 beat Apple's target of 10 million by a wide margin.

Including sales of the iPod touch, Apple has sold 30 million devices running the iPhone OS.

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Apple's App Store has been big hit to supplement the popularity of iPhone. Now, news that Apple is to privately preview iPhone OS 3.0 has raised expectations of many already. To complement the new iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is rumored to have created a 'premium' section in its existing App Store.


With over 15,000 applications and above 500,000,000 downloads, the App Store is 'the' business for Apple to supplement its iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Of the several developers, it's being rumored that the game development companies will be given preference for the 'Premium' section of the App Store.

The Premium section will comprise of the applications priced at $20 (Rs. 1,020 approx.) and above. This will help the game development and other app developing companies to offer their premium applications, which according to them are difficult to develop. Many game industry stalwarts believe that iPhone OS is the next (handheld) gaming platform.

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Apple is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.

The mini laptop computers will likely have monitor screens that are between 9.7-inches and 10-inches, one person, who declined to be named, said.

Another person said other specifications and functions are still under evaluation.

Apple is apparently working with Taiwan's Wintek to make the touch-screen displays and Quanta Computer to assemble the new netbooks. Most analysts think that the Apple netbook will still cost an arm and a leg, thus indicating that yet again Jobs' Mob will have missed the point of netbooks.

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Apple has grabbed the top spot in Fortune's ranking of the world's most-admired companies, beating rivals such as Google (fourth place) and Microsoft (10th place).

A global management consulting firm, to survey approximately 15,000 industry executives and financial analysts in 64 industries to determine the company that has the strongest reputation, both in its industry segment and across multiple other segments. In 2008, the survey combined the previously separate listings of most admired U.S. and global companies into a single listing. 

Companies in the survey are rated using attributes like quality of management, quality of products and services, innovativeness and financial soundness, with industry groupings determined using the Fortune 1000 listing and the Global 500 listing.

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