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12:45 AM ET, June 24, 2008

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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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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Offer a Tool To Measure Web Hits
Discussion: CNET News.com and WebProNews
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.
Discussion: WebProNews and VoIP & Gadgets Blog
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Marc Benioff's mantra: Anything but Microsoft  —  Today Salesforce.com announced a “global strategic alliance” (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs.  The alliance allows developers using Salesforce.com's cloud …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunching The Enterprise: TechCrunchIT
Discussion: bub.blicio.us
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Marc Benioff: No more status quo
Discussion: The Register and TechCrunchIT
The Macalope:
Those iPhone Suckers  —  On Friday, John Gruber noticed the Macalope's point that iPhone unlocking is in danger of extinction.  —  Today Jason Kottke checks out eBay (if you don't remember what eBay is, ask your parents about it!) and notices iPhones are going for a premium.
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kottke.org:   Valuable old iPhones
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
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
A Month of Gates #6  —  Today, Bill Gates started his last week as a full-time Microsoft employee.  Oh joy—the online memorials are publishing, and there are going to be zillions by week's end.  And, yes, eWEEK will have its own tribute to America's great geek.  —  I have to ask: Is he employee No. 1 or No. 2?
Discussion: Forbes and Gizmodo
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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 …
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 …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
LinkedIn and The Strange Case of The Disappearing Market  —  Is LinkedIn worth $1bn?  Yes.  Why?  Because Bain Capital says it is.  The stock is not public, so you and I cannot trade it.  The whole notion of the average punter trading tech stocks (or the average punter's pension fund trading …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Pre-paid iPhone 3G customers may pay $600 for handset - report  —  Approximately one out of every ten iPhone 3G buyers are likely to be international pre-paid subscribers who'll find themselves paying in excess of $600 for the touch screen handset, according to a new report.
Darren Waters / BBC:
‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed  —  The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.  —  The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.
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: InformationWeek and Ars Technica
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
A Window on the Cloud  —  Outsourcing compute power is wonderful — until something goes wrong.  Unfortunately, when an Amazon Web Service goes down it's hard to know why, and it's even harder to know how well a particular cloud is performing in the first place.
 
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Introducing QBase  —  I'm delighted to announce QBase …
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Verizon Spanked by FCC; Can't Harass Ex-Customers
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
What's Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer
Discussion: Lost Remote
PC Pro:
Murdoch fumes as Facebook overtakes MySpace
Discussion: Profy.Com and Slashdot
Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
The boss made me do it: multitasking still inefficient
Discussion: /Message
Lalitesh Katragadda / Google LatLong:
Making your mark on the world
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Facebook Seeking Free Labor to Translate and Localize Facebook …
Discussion: Facebook Blog and Mashable!
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Study: 44% Of Internet Traffic Is Peer-to-Peer
Discussion: Ars Technica
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
XP: Microsoft Does the Right Thing
Discussion: InfoWorld
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Samsung Omnia i900 hitting AT&T in Q3?
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
NBC Olympics on the Go download service is Vista only
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Google's Android Delays Don't Matter (GOOG)
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The Thin Laptop Wars
Discussion: The Mac Observer
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks