Cupertino, Calif. - Apple has served up more than 60 million applications for the iPhone and iPod touch since the company opened its App Store a month ago, netting the company about $30 million, or an average of $1 million a day, chief executive Steve Jobs told The Wall Street Journal. [more..]

New York - Averting a potentially crippling strike, Verizon Communications said that it has reached a tentative three-year deal with a pair of unions representing 65,000 of its workers. [more..]

Washington - In a move likely to appeal to younger, tech-savvy voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has unveiled plans to formally announce his running mate by sending text messages and emails to those who sign up on his website. [more..]

Beijing - NBC Universal has announced record traffic to its NBCOlympics.com website, which counted over 70 million page views on Friday, the first days of the games -- up from the peak traffic day during the Athens games four years ago (20.6 million). [more..]

Bellevue, Wash. - Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA plans in the fall to launch a platform similar to Apple's App Store for the iPhone, which will allow almost any developer to create applications for all of the carrier's handset line, MocoNews reported, citing multiple unnamed sources. [more..]

Los Angeles - A federal judge has sided with the argument of a 16-year-old girl who claimed she had no knowledge or understanding of file-sharing or copyright infringement, and ruled she will only have to pay $200 per song, instead of the $750-30,000 allowed under the Copyright Act, Ars Technica reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - Popular Swedish file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay has been blocked by most of the major Italian Internet service providers, the company said in a note on its blog. [more..]

Torrance, Calif. - Knowledge Adventure, a developer of 3D virtual worlds for children, announced on Monday that it has closed on a $5 million second round of financing, led by Azure Capital and TeleSoft Partners. [more..]

Ultimately, media companies need to become not distributors or content owners but enablers, blogs Paul Sweeting. [more..]

Rohit Bhargava shares a few of his experiences from Beijing over the past few days of the Olympics. [more..]

New York - Some three million of Cablevision's subscribers aren't able to view all of the 2,200 hours of Olympics video on NBCOlympics.com, due to its reluctance to pay a premium NBC Universal is charging premium TV providers for the privilege, Cablevision-owned Newsday.com reports. [more..]

San Bruno, Calif. - Google's YouTube has acted quickly to resolve issues with the audio quality of videos being uploaded to the site, which it was uncovered last week were being somewhat muffled thanks to new audio compression technology, Wired.com reported. [more..]

Minneapolis - Consumer electronics and media retail chain Best Buy on Monday announced plans to deploy electronics vending machine kiosks in major U.S. airports as part of a pilot program of the technology. [more..]

Chicago - Indie music site Pitchfork announced on Monday that it has partnered with the Independent Film Channel on a new TV series that will feature content from the company's recently launched Web TV channel, Pitchfork.tv. [more..]

San Francisco - Online magazine Salon.com on Monday announced the launch of a network of member-generated content, Open Salon, which will allow bloggers to receive payment in the form of "tips" from appreciative readers. [more..]

St. Louis - Cable TV provider Charter Communications on Monday announced an agreement with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, to launch a subscription video-on-demand service featuring classic and contemporary Disney movies and animated shorts. [more..]