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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 …
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Nokia:
Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution of the leading open mobile platform — Visionary move embraces openness and accelerates innovation — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own …
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 …
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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MacBlogz, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, I4U News, Cult of Mac and Digg
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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.
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 …
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.
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Ars Technica
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W. David Gardner / InformationWeek:Supreme Court To Hear AT&T Access Fee Appeal
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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 …
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Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, broadstuff, Running With Foxes, Seth Goldstein and CNET News.com
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.
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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 …
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 …
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Defense in Depth
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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 …
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 …
