Reuters – Apple Inc said on Tuesday it sold 3 million iPads since the touch-screen tablet computer hit the market less than three months ago, boosting its stock two days before the company’s iPhone arrives on store shelves. Source:Apple says iPad sales hit 3 million, shares climb (Reuters)

AFP – Amazon and US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble cut the prices of their electronic book readers in the face of Apple’s iPad momentum in the fledgling market. Source:Kindle and Nook cut prices in battle with iPad (AFP)

PC World – Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android smartphones are getting set for another epic battle next week as these two titans of the smartphone industry show off their latest devices. Source:Android vs. iPhone: 5 Battlefields (PC World)

Macworld.com – The Macalope gets shut out in his iPhone 4 purchase attempts (no, there is no express lane for mythical beasts—but there should be). Meanwhile, he’s wondering if it isn’t time to start talking about “Google fanbois.” And, while the hirsute one is above selling his body for an iPhone 4, he isn’t above [...]

NewsFactor – More than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4s were sold on the first day of pre-orders earlier this week. The volume was so great that AT&T had to suspend its online sales and Apple had to delay ship dates. Now an analyst reports the company is having difficulty getting enough touchscreens to meet [...]

AFP – Apple said Wednesday it received 600,000 orders for the new iPhone, a single-day record, as its telecom partner AT&T suspended the troubled early ordering process because of the heavy demand. Source:Single-day record 600,000 orders for Apple's new iPhone (AFP)

Reuters – Customers trying to reserve the latest version of the iPhone were thwarted by technical glitches that hindered sales on Tuesday, the first day of pre-orders before the device hits stores on June 24. Source:AT&T hit with order and privacy complaints over iPhone (Reuters)

Christopher Null – As blogger excitement reaches a fever pitch over the iPhone 4 — now available for pre-order, if you can get the website to work — confusion and rage are also running wild. Why? Because of Steve Jobs’ claim that the iPhone 4’s new “Retina” display offers higher resolution than the human eye [...]

Macworld.com – Starbucks has just announced that they’ll be offering free Wi-Fi at all stores nationwide on July 1, no matter what brand of laptop, tablet, smartphone, or computer you may have. Access will be provided through a one-click logon portal that brings Starbucks customers unrestricted access to the Web at large, just like many other [...]

Appolicious – Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) endure daily challenges that stretch the bounds of mobile devices and apps required to satisfy their unique role in the organization. Source:iPad apps for chief marketing officers (Appolicious)

Macworld.com – Read It Later, an app that saves article links for future perusal, has been updated to run natively on the iPad. Previously available for the iPhone and iPod touch, version 2.1 of the app is now universal for all of Apple’s iOS devices. Source:Read It Later app now available for iPad (Macworld.com)

AP – Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s e-mail address was exposed because of a security vulnerability with his new iPad, but the billionaire media mogul shrugged it off Thursday and said he didn’t understand the fuss. Source:NYC mayor shrugs off iPad e-mail address leak (AP)

AP – Google Inc. thinks its increasingly bitter rival Apple Inc. is trying to muscle it out of the mobile advertising competition on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Source:Google's AdMob attacks Apple's new mobile ad rules (AP)

Macworld.com – Macworld covered Steve Jobs’s WWDC 2010 keynote live yesterday, but if you still want to watch Jobs’s announcements with your own two eyes, Apple has published the keynote video in full on its Website, on video-sharing service YouTube, and via its event podcast feed in the iTunes Store. Source:WWDC 2010 keynote is now available [...]

LiveScience.com – Apple CEO Steve Jobs officially announced the company’s latest smartphone upgrade, the iPhone 4, today. While it wasn’t exactly a secret after the prototype was found in a bar, the official Apple announcement did confirm a lot of hardware specs. And they sure are impressive. Source:Apple Announces iPhone 4 with Impressive New Features [...]

Christopher Null – Apple’s new iPhone won’t even be announced until Monday — and technically that is still just an unconfirmed rumor — but that isn’t stopping accessory manufacturers from charging ahead. Source:First iPhone 4G accessories arrive (Christopher Null)

Ben Patterson – Love him or hate him, you have to give Apple chief exec Steve Jobs credit for responding to all those e-mails from everyday Joes. Apparently, however, the CEO of AT&T Wireless doesn’t share Jobs’ enthusiasm for e-mail from random customers, and now AT&T corporate has been forced to apologize after threatening to [...]

PC World – One of the prevailing themes at the Computex conference this week is the coming onslaught of Android-based tablets. The iPad is leading the tablet charge–selling more than two million units in less than two months since its initial launch, but some of the Android tablets could be formidable challengers to Apple’s de [...]