The New York Times is reporting that Best Buy will announce today that they will start selling Apple’s iPhone beginning September 7, 2008. Best Buy will be only the third outlet in the US to sell the iPhone (the first two being Apple’s Retail Stores and AT&T). Best Buy currently has 970 retail stores in the US.

Nick Wingfield with The Wall Street Journal gets confirmation that a plan is in place for Apple to remotely kill certain iPhone / iPod touch applications if they are found to be malicious.

Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program — one that stole users’ personal data, for example — to be distributed to iPhones through the App Store. “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull,” he says.

As expected, the iPhone firmware v2.0.1 makes any jailbroken apps inaccessible, but also the latest firmware release includes a baseband update that will render iPhones useless with any carrier other than the original carrier.

PwnageTool 2.0.1 does not currently work with the iPhone v2.0.1 firmware, so beware. It is not yet known when a new PwnageTool will be released.

A quote from the iPhone dev blog:

Remember, from a jailbreaking point of view the update process is always reversible, but this isn’t the case for the 3G baseband, so your intended long term future use for the phone should help you decide what you do. If you always going to use the 3G phone with the original carrier then baseband updates are fine, if you are not then hold off. (#)

Apple has released v2.0.1 update for the iPhone and iPod touch that consists of bug fixes. Details of what bugs were fixed are not yet available.

Nullriver’s NetShare app, which allows users to use their iPhone’s cell ‘net connection with a laptop (also known as tethering), has once again been removed from the App Store. Last week, after about a day in the App Store directory, NetShare was removed without any notice from Apple. Then on August 1 it mysteriously reappeared in the App Store. Today, NetShare has again been de-listed from the App Store directory.

Much of speculation about NetShare’s removal from the App Store revolves around the fact that NetShare would allow iPhone users to tether their laptop to the iPhone without paying extra (about $30/month) for AT&T’s tethering data plan.

In my opinion, if AT&T is calling the iPhone data plan “unlimited”, then the way in which that data plan is used should be up to the subscriber. Otherwise, the data plan should be called “limited unlimited”.

Apple has stated that the MobileMe sync issues some iPhone and iPod touch users have been experiencing have been resolved. If you are still having troublewith missing contacts or events, see this KnowledgeBase article for the steps to take.

Apparently, the Aurora Feint game would send your contact list unencrypted to the company’s servers. Hopefully the developers will fix this properly and get their game back in the App Store.

Apple announced today that they sold their one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, July 13, 2008. That is only 3 days after it went on sale. That’s pretty impressive.

Apple has posted a handy guide for what to bring when purchasing an iPhone 3G and what to expect. Here is the list:

To purchase and activate iPhone 3G, you need the following:*

* Credit card
* Social security number
* Valid, government-issued photo ID
* Your current wireless account number and password or PIN (if you’re new to AT&T)

Apple has instructions on how to move your saved SMS messages, email accounts, photos, notes, and other personal settings to your new iPhone 3G.

How to replace an original iPhone with an iPhone 3G