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7:10 AM ET, June 24, 2008

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Nokia:
Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free  —  Foundation to be established to provide royalty-free open platform and accelerate innovation  —  London, UK - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS …
Discussion: TechCrunchIT and All About Symbian
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nokia buys Symbian, turns software over to Symbian Foundation  —  Nokia's been in bed with Symbian for many, many years through the development of its S60 platform — the world's most populous smartphone platform, dont'cha know — and they're taking that relationship to its endgame today …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Nokia Acquires Symbian; Takes on Google's Android  —  Nokia isn't finished with its acquisition spree just yet.  Tonight the Finnish company announced a plan to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn't already own and make the platform open source.  Nokia clearly aims to challenge Android …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Nokia buys Symbian, opens it for war with Google Android
AppleInsider:
Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard  —  Although Apple is marketing Mac OS X Snow Leopard as an operating system update with “no new features,” under the hood improvements will actually translate into a slew of new enhancements, five of which are described herein.
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Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
Ten Big New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard  —  Daniel Eran Dilger  —  Apple is marketing the idea of there being “no new features” for Snow Leopard and instead promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, thanks to a diligent code optimization and refactoring cycle discussed in the previous article.
Discussion: One More Thing and MacDailyNews
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google to Unveil New Ad-Planning Tool  —  Google is expected to unveil a new ad-planning tool for agencies and marketers at an industry conference on Tuesday.  —  Word that the Internet search giant has something up its sleeve surfaced when the Advertising Research Foundation …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
At Google, Slow Growth in News Site  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The death of Tim Russert of NBC News this month quickly became a top article on the nation's biggest news sites.  —  The front page of Google News took about an hour to catch up.  —  Google blamed a technical problem …
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar and paidContent.org
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Supreme Court To Investigate If AT&T Is Violating Antitrust Laws With Wholesale DSL Pricing  —  from the competition?  dept  —  In most cases, antitrust rules seem fairly bogus.  They often are used to try to punish companies for being successful, even if they're not actually abusing any kind of monopoly situation.
Discussion: Ars Technica
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W. David Gardner / InformationWeek:
Supreme Court To Hear AT&T Access Fee Appeal
Discussion: Slashdot
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Are social ads getting too much?  Try “FriendRank”  —  SocialMedia, a San Francisco company trying to find compelling ways to advertise on social networks, is offering advertisers a new product: Something called “FriendRank.”  —  The company scans data about your activities on Facebook …
Chad Little / Facebook Blog:
Facebook in Translation  —  Five months ago, we launched the first translated version of Facebook in Spanish.  Since then, the internationalization team and its community translators have been busy translating the site into sixteen more languages.  We now support—among others—French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian.
Discussion: Inside Facebook
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Preview: CNET's new, improved look  —  The new CNET home page includes a carousel highlighting several stories across News, Reviews, and Downloads, as well as an integrated video player for CNET TV content.  Click on the image for a full view.  —  After more than a dozen years of bringing …
Discussion: VentureBeat and paidContent.org
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft, Google and PayPal, a unit of eBay, are among the founders of an industry organization that hopes to solve the problem of password overload among computer users.  —  The Information Card Foundation …
Discussion: Defense in Depth
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:   What the Heck Is Information Card Foundation?
Don MacAskill / SmugBlog:
SmugVault - Store everything for next to nothing.  —  SmugMug has always allowed everyone to upload an unlimited number of web-displayable files - JPEG, GIF, PNG, and MP4 - but to date we haven't been able to accept the RAW files generated by modern digital cameras.
IDG News Service:
Report: Panasonic Eyes 37-inch OLED TV  —  Panasonic is moving toward commercialization of OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels and plans to put TVs with 37-inch OLED screens on sale in the next three years, according to a Japanese newspaper report.  —  The panels will be produced …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Evernote's Launches Publicly, Announces Upcoming API  —  Digital life bookmarking tool Evernote emerges from beta for its public launch today, with a few new features I think I'll enjoy.  The first new feature I'm excited about is the new clipper tool, which works more like Twine's bookmarking tool …
Andrew Colley / NEWS.com.au:
Extra storage as students go Gmail  —  GOOGLE has edged out some of the biggest brands in the enterprise IT services market to pick up another major contract win in Australia's education sector.  —  Google partner SMS Management and Technology has emerged as the leading bidder to supply …
 
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Daniel Langendorf / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Microsoft's First Step In Accepting OpenID SignOns - HealthVault
Paula Rooney / Open Source:
NVidia says no to request to release open source drivers, once again
Discussion: CNET News.com and Slashdot
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Jaxtr raises $10 million to expand cheap international calls
IDG News Service:
Lenovo to Offer New ThinkPad Line for SMBs
Discussion: Engadget
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive
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Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
The boss made me do it: multitasking still inefficient
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
LinkedIn and The Strange Case of The Disappearing Market
Lalitesh Katragadda / Google LatLong:
Making your mark on the world
Discussion: VentureBeat
The Macalope:
Those iPhone Suckers  —  On Friday, John Gruber noticed …
Discussion: kottke.org
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Study: 44% Of Internet Traffic Is Peer-to-Peer
Discussion: Ars Technica
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
XP: Microsoft Does the Right Thing
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Google's Android Delays Don't Matter (GOOG)
Darren Waters / BBC:
‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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