Wall Street Journal

SPRINT OVERSTATED EVO SALES
WSJ reports that Sprint inadvertently exaggerated initial sales figures of its Evo 4G smartphone. On Tuesday, Sprint admitted that it had only sold a third as many as it had first reported. The Evo 4G is still a huge success, having broken all previous first-day sales records for Sprint. 


APPLE PUSHES MOBILE ADS

WSJ reports that Steve Jobs announced that Apple’s mobile advertising platform, iAd, is set to go live on July 1, raking in USD60 million in revenues in its first six months. Jobs said that iAd will be incorporated into the new iPhone 4.


MICROSOFT’S POSITION ISN’T SET IN STONE

Microsoft currently has its operating systems in an overwhelming 84 percent of all new PCs. But the PC software giant’s control in the OS segment is unlikely to continue, along with consumers’ transition to new types of devices, such as tablet PCs with software from other companies, writes WSJ.
GOOGLE BLASTS APPLE ON AD RULES
Google has voiced some loud criticism over Apple’s newly-imposed rules on developers that could obstruct the search-engine giant and other Apple rivals from selling advertising inside Apple’s devices, reports WSJ. Apple changed the rules on Monday, and one of Google’s vice presidents said that the new regulations “hurt both large and small developers by severely limiting their choice of how best to make money.” Apple declined to comment on the matter.