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Free apps update for December 17th, 2010

This week on the App Store there are a ton more games, but that’s not all. I also found a number of great utilities: more location tracking, a translator from the future and a great news app. And, as always, a decent number of these are limited time freebies. Grab ‘em while they’re free.

SEC investigating Steve Jobs heart attack story as stock manipulation

Late last week, a false report that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital following a heart attack sent lemming investors to sell AAPL, driving the stock price down to $97.07, its lowest since before the original iPhone release. Now the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is looking into the report as intentional stock more »

CNN eagerly laps up fake story; Steve Jobs still not harmed

I have lost all faith in the media and in the sanity of stockholders today, after a citizen report on CNN’s iReport website claimed an anonymous source said that Steve Jobs had been hospitalized following a heart attack. And then, based upon that, AAPL fell as much as 5.4% to $94.65, its lowest in quite more »

The numbers are in, suggest the iPhone 3G is kinda sorta popular

CNN is reporting that the iPhone 3G has broken the three million unit marker, according to Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative.

Cote, a former T-Mobile exec turned analyst, says that “… they are seeing unprecedented demand …” and that it’s not letting up. CNN says that Cote has been extremely accurate in the past about wireless predictions. I don’t think this estimate is a stretch with the way the iPhone has been selling.

Details after the break.