One Million iPhones 3G Acquired in the 1st Week of Sales.

According to officials from Apple, the company sold 270,000 iPhones in first 2 days of sales, leading to an increase of the stock's price by 2 percent.




The original iPhone, introduced in late June 2007 in the United States only, has a great succes. Already, the new device is sold in 21 countries.

Apple executives were pleased with the early results.

"IPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a statement. "It took 74 days to sell the first 1 million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world."


Source: Reuters

Pre-quake changes seen in rocks

A team of US researchers has detected stress-induced changes in rocks that occurred hours before two small tremors in California's San Andreas Fault.

The observations used sensors lowered down holes drilled into the quake zone. The team says we are a long way from routine tremor forecasts but the latest findings hold out hope that such services might be possible one day.

"If you had 10 hours' warning, from a practical point of view, you could evacuate populations, you could certainly get people out of buildings, you could get the fire department ready," said co-author Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington.
Source:www.bbc.co.uk

The Kellogg Twenty is Coming Home

For the first time in about three decades the Kellogg Twenty will come back to Baltimore. The 154-year-old $20 gold coin was a unique California Gold Rush specimen, which, for a certain period of time, was owned by John Work Garrett, who was a Baltimore resident, as well as a diplomat. The Kellogg Twenty is considered by a lot of coin collectors to be one of the finest gold coins in the United States from the middle of the 19th century.

It is worth mentioning that the grandfather of John W. Garrett (1872 – 1942) was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad executive John Work Garrett (1820 – 1884), who was also the company's president. In his turn John Work Garrett was the eldest son of T. Harrison Garrett (1849 – 1888), who started collecting coins during his life as a student at Princeton. The collecting of rare coins marked lots of new rarities when the two sons of T. Harrison, John and Robert (1875 – 1961), became passionate with numismatics.

Source: Dig4coins.Com

500,000 Square Miles of Rocky Mountains to be Acquired for $500M

A company with headquarters in Seattle agreed to sell 300,000 acres from the Rocky Mountains for conservation. It is worth mentioning that in such a way the company looks forward to protect some of the most prized territories in the region from development. The current land deal is considered to be the largest of its kind in the history of the United States.

Over 300,000 acres of land featuring threatened and endangered animals such as grizzly bears and lynx will be transferred to public ownership after the government made a deal with the Seattle-based company, Plum Creek Timber. The deal is valued at $500,000 and for signing the agreement a ceremony took place in Montana on June 30.

Source: Bizaims.com

U.S., NATO Casualties in Afghanistan Exceed Those in Iraq

For a second month in a row there were more casualties of NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan than in Iraq. It is worth mentioning that the fundamentalist militia was able to stag a complicated jailbreak, the result of which was the escape of 886 prisoners. Afterwards militia promptly penetrated a strategic valley outside Kandahar.

According to the information provided by the Pentagon last week, the Taliban are going to maintain or even increase the pace of its assaults, which already increased by 40 percent this year in comparison with 2007. A number of observers consider that the rebellion has achieved its peak.

Source: CoinsDig.Com

Prices for New Investment Coins

Recently the Bank of Russia presented three new investment coins: St. George the Victorious, Sable and One Chervonets. The peculiarities regarding the three specimens are presented below.

Investment Coin

St. George the Victorious

This coins was issued on February 1, 2006. Below there are several characteristics of the St. George the Victorious investment coin.

Source: Dig4coins.Com

Tech Companies Create Group to Buy Patents

The number one search engine, Google, is a member of a group that consists of big technological companies that fight against the threat coming from the lawsuits on patent violation. This information was provided by the official website of Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper's website the group of tech giants is called Allied Security Trust and it looks forward to acquire key intellectual property before it comes into the possession of other parties, which in their turn might use it against the tech giants.

Source: CoinsDig.Com

EBay Ordered to Pay 40M Euros for Selling Fake Louis Vuitton Goods

On June 30, a Paris court ordered one of the biggest Internet auctioneers, eBay, to pay 40 million euros (which is about 63 million USD) in damages to the French-based luxury fashion and leather goods brand and company, Louis Vuitton, due to the fact that the auctioneer was selling counterfeit luxury goods of the brand online. In addition the commercial court banned the Internet auctioneer from selling such perfume brands as: Christian Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and Guerlain, having the goal of providing a message about copyright protection.

Source: Bizaims.Com