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9:50 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 …
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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 …
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 …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
Symbian Goes Open Source - Courtesy of Nokia  —  Nokia have today announced that they will be acquiring the remaining 52% of Symbian they don't own and will be releasing the complete Symbian platform under the Eclipse open source license.  Nokia have also announced the creation of the Symbian Foundation …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Nokia buys Symbian, opens it for war with Google Android  —  With Apple's iPhone and Google's Android platform getting all the press these days, it's easy to forget that another company, Nokia, is still by far and away the worldwide leader in mobile sales.  It is a sleeping giant.
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 …
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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Reyhan Harmanci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Web TV is a hit.  So where's the big money?  —  With an average monthly viewership of 1.5 million people, “Break a Leg,” the Internet video series about the making of a sitcom in San Francisco, is ahead of its time.  Brothers Yuri and Vlad Baranovsky the 24- and 30-year-old co-creators of the show …
Discussion: Venture Chronicles
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
What's Obscene?  Google Could Have an Answer  —  Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material is obscene are asked to use a local yardstick: does the material violate community standards?  —  That is often a tricky question because there is no simple, concrete way to gauge a community's tastes and values.
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
Discussion: One More Thing and MacDailyNews
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 …
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 …
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
Because life takes Visa... and Facebook  —  Visa is teaming up with Facebook, investing $2 million in advertising and introducing a social networking application for small business owners.  —  Visa plans to announce today that it is launching an application on Facebook for small business owners …
Discussion: FaceReviews and Mashable!
IDG News Service:
Lenovo to Offer New ThinkPad Line for SMBs  —  Lenovo on Monday confirmed plans to launch a new ThinkPad laptop line, the SL series, with features and support services geared toward small and medium-size businesses.  —  Priced from US$699 to $1,199, the laptops will come with online backup services …
Discussion: The Register and Engadget
 
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
3-D chat room company IMVU hits 20 million members
Discussion: GigaOM, Mashable! and Massively
Adobe:
Security Update available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords
IDG News Service:
Report: Panasonic Eyes 37-inch OLED TV
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Paula Rooney / Open Source:
NVidia says no to request to release open source drivers, once again
Discussion: CNET News.com and Slashdot
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Evernote's Launches Publicly, Announces Upcoming API
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Business Technology:
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Discussion: Bits and Business Week
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
The Macalope:
Those iPhone Suckers  —  On Friday, John Gruber noticed …
Discussion: Gadget Lab and kottke.org
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