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2:50 PM 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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality  —  Nokia, already a stakeholder in mobile OS maker Symbian, has announced that it will buy the remainder of the company and throw all the assets into a new platform called the Symbian Foundation, which will unite all the flavors of Symbian into a single …
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 …
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sources: Microsoft And Yahoo Talks Back On  —  We've got multiple sources at both Yahoo and Microsoft telling us that official talks are back on between the two companies.  But we're hearing something different than CNET - the talks are about a full buyout again, not a sweetened search-only deal.
Discussion: paidContent.org and Epicenter
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks: Two Sources Say “Not Discussing Buyout”  —  Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are talking again, say TechCrunch, CNET, and an SAI source.  —  TechCrunch's sources say the two are talking about a full buyout.  One of our sources was highly skeptical of this.
Discussion: Digital Daily and CNBC
Emel Mutlu / Inside AdWords:
Introducing Google Ad Planner  —  If you're a media planner at an ad agency, you know that planning an online display buy can be challenging, particularly in scaling your campaign's reach while keeping it relevant for your target audience.  Plus, how do you keep track of the millions of sites …
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Ray Pellecchia / NYSE:
New York Stock Exchange Today Launches NYSE Realtime Stock Prices  —  The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today will introduce NYSE Realtime Stock Prices, a new data product that enables Internet and media organizations to buy real-time …
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Matt Simmons / The Official Google Blog:
More real-time quotes on Google Finance
Discussion: CNET News.com and AppScout
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.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google The “Moral Compass” Of The US Justice System?
Discussion: Contentinople
AdAge:
Yahoo-Google Deal Runs Into Resistance  —  Fear of Higher Prices, Less Competition, Loss of Privacy Among Concerns Raised by Advertisers and Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Yahoo's agreement with Google for online search ads may be generating some pricing and antitrust worries from advertisers …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014  —  Microsoft may have little choice but to support XP for an extended period since most of its business customers have not upgraded to Windows Vista.  —  In an unprecedented move, Microsoft has committed to providing support services …
Discussion: TechSpot
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates' big send-off  —  REDMOND, Wash.—If you ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'll have to get back to you.  —  That's because, a week away from the transition, he still hasn't slowed down his pace.  If anything, things have picked …
Discussion: eWeek and Gizmodo
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Room For Yet Another TV-On-The-Web Service?  Yes, Says TV-On-The-Web Startup TidalTV  —  Scott Ferber knows a thing about launching companies in a crowded field — he co-founded Advertising.com in 1998, DoubleClick was dominant and Bubble 1.0 was approaching its peak.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Berryshack:
New Leaked Blackberry Kickstart Pictures!  —  An Anonymous source has leaked exclusive Never-Before-Seen pictures of the much anticipated BlackBerry Kickstart.  —  Lets get to the pictures.  —  Speculated Specifications of the Kickstart are as follows.
Jan Libbenga / The Register:
Google's Gmail verboten in Germany  —  Travelers to Germany will no longer be able to access Google's Gmail the easy way due to the firm's long-running trademark lawsuit with German businessman Daniel Giersch.  —  As from Friday, German Gmail users and travelers in Germany are greeted …
Discussion: AppScout
Nokia:
A perfect fusion of features and services - the Nokia N78 now available in US  —  Newest Nseries device enhances the mobile lifestyle by merging new technologies and Ovi services  —  New York, NY, USA - Starting today, convergence craving consumers across the United States can set their sights …
 
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Arn / MacRumors:
O2 Offering iPhone 3G Contract Signups Prior to July 11th?
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Dangerous Stock Dip (Hey, Microsoft, Don't Blow It!)
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Valleywag
Robert Vamosi / Defense in Depth:
Trojans exploit Mac OS X ARDAgent flaw
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog, F-Secure Antivirus … and Zero Day
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
The Ad J.C. Penney Doesn't Want You to See
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Stalwart, HipMojo.com and Gawker
NYT:
City Room: Google Expands New York Footprint
Discussion: Valleywag
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Make Vista Use Multiple Cores to Speed Boot Time
Discussion: Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and GottaBeMobile
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
AT&T Makes Its CDN Move
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge, Industry Standard and Contentinople
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SearchMe Launches Stacks, Gets Serious About Search Relevance
Discussion: Alt Search Engines and Mashable!
 Earlier Items: 
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
After Steve Jobs: Handicapping Apple's back bench
Discussion: MacDailyNews
Mark Rutherford / CNET News.com:
New brief on DARPA's Vulcan engine
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
Cisco Extends Virtualization Reach
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge, The Register and Market Wire
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Inside the Latest iPhone
Discussion: Cult of Mac, Insanely Great Mac and Silicon Alley Insider
PhotographyBLOG:
Ricoh GX200  —  The Ricoh GX200 compact digital camera …
Discussion: Gadgetell, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo and Engadget
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
Because life takes Visa... and Facebook
Discussion: Web Community Forum, Mashable!, FaceReviews and WebProNews
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
At Google, Slow Growth in News Site
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, The Open Road and Technology Questions
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency
 
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