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Beginning this Friday, July 30, customers can purchase iPhone 4 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. iPhone 4 will be available for purchase through Apple’s retail and online stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter ended June 26, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. “It was a phenomenal quarter that exceeded our expectations all around, including the most successful product launch in Apple’s history with iPhone 4,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad is off to a terrific start, more people are buying Macs than ever before, and we have amazing new products still to come this year.”

FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad, two highly anticipated new apps — now available from the App Store — that let users easily view, edit, and search for information in FileMaker Pro databases on their iPhone or iPad.

Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive, and fun way than ever before.

Novartis, a leading manufacturer of vaccines and pharmaceutical products, turned to iPhone and a mix of custom and commercial apps to streamline communications among its 100,000 global employees. Now the company has developed a consumer iPhone app, VaxTrak, that helps parents manage their children’s vaccines and preventive care.

To silence the “dreaded ‘are we there yet’ whine” that can accompany summer travel with children, USA Today columnist Jinny Gudmundsen recommends iPad apps. Her picks include multiplayer board games, art apps, visual puzzles, and a “just for fun” app that features talking sock puppets.

Peter Cohen (Loopinsight.com) presents a selection of standout iPad games — ranging from action to strategy to multi-player crossword — with mini-reviews that detail how each app’s gameplay is enhanced on iPad.

PC Magazine makes Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server an Editors’ Choice (4.5/5 stars) and writes that the ultra-compact device brings “the sort of flawless design and ease of use we expect from Apple…to a space that usually offers neither: the server market.”

The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.

Apple today announced that it has sold more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices through Saturday, June 26, just three days after the phone’s launch on June 24. “This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply.”