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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.
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.
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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
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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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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?
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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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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 …
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.
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Apple 2.0, MacBlogz, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, The iPhone Blog, Infinite Loop and Insanely Great Mac
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.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Google's Android Delays Don't Matter (GOOG) — As we noted this morning, Google's (GOOG) Android mobile operating system will take a bit longer to roll out than many expected: Instead of several phones coming out in time for this year's holiday shopping season, it looks like there will just be one, from T-Mobile.
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Wall Street Journal:Google's Mobile-Handset Plans Are Slowed
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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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Webware.com, O'Reilly Radar, TechCrunchIT, InfoWorld, Virtualization.com, Data Center Knowledge, OStatic blogs and Open Source
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 …
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks — Is MySpace worth $3 billion, or $20 billion? It depends on how you value a user. — It's time to start comparing the big global social networks on something other than unique visitors and page views.
