News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

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Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public

Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting to cellular data network

• David Morgenstern: Signs of iPhone growing pains at Apple's WWDC?
• What can you expect with the iPhone OS 3.0 update?
• Ryan Naraine: Apple iPhone OS 3.0 update plugs 46 security holes
• New iPhone 3.0 OS available
• Sam Diaz: Can MLB.com hit an iPhone homerun with AT&T powering the network?
• Jason O'Grady: Some pre-ordered iPhone 3GS' delayed
• AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policy
• How-to: Enable tethering under iPhone 3.0 right now
• Walt Mossberg: New iPhone Is Better Model — Or Just Get OS 3.0
• Jason Perlow: What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?

Microsoft to scale back Soapbox video service

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Richard Koman: Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearings

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: 'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'

• AP, Meet AC. And, BTW, News is Not Really 'Monetizable' on the Web.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could you switch over to being 100% open source?

• Dana Blankenhorn: Will Ubuntu remain a minor player
• Christopher Dawson: Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States

Ed Bott: Hands on with the Windows 7 Touch Pack

PE Hub Blog: Private Equity and Venture Capital To Be Regulated

BoomTown: MySpace: After the Layoffs, Here's What's What and What's Next

Mary Jo Foley: More alleged Microsoft Morro screen shots, details leak

• Microsoft bets big on a new platform subscription license
• Kingsley-Hughes: Beware of Windows 7 downgrade/upgrade mess

• Looking for a few good SOA case studies

Sam Diaz: Palm, not Apple, deserves black eye for iTunes sync confusion

• Two totally different opinions of the Palm Pre
• Palm Pre returned, Sprint coverage and Android main factors
• Matthew Miller: T-Mobile announces Dash 3G and confirms 2nd Android announcement
• Nokia Ovi Store fails in many ways, buy with extreme caution

Rachel King: Retro is the wave of the future for camera design

• Panasonic releases firmware updates on batteries
• Fujifilm zooms in on Eastern India market

Larry Dignan: Bing's search boost continues, but will the gains hold?

• IRS asks to drop work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsolete
• IDC: Server spending tanks in second quarter, but the worst is over
• Google Apps Sync cuts off Outlook's desktop search

Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learned

• Richard Koman: Clinton defends State-Twitter connection, even as she pleads ignorance

Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 RC1 expected to be available June 19,.m

Phil Wainewright: Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet

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Jennifer Leggio: Building walls between PR, journalists: A worst practice

• Zack Whittaker: Organisations: who should and shouldn't blog

Paul Miller: Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

• Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Flip Mino camcorder, Sharp 19-inch HDTV, Sennheiser headphones

Jason Hiner: BlackBerry Tour offers solid features, but adds to branding confusion

Heather Clancy: Best practices resources for paper cuts of the environmental sort

• Green IT video case studies to watch at your leisure
• Audit finds DOE could do more to amp up IT energy efficiency
• Harry Fuller: The media have been wrong on climate change before...
• Global warming: what will American politicians do? Rest of world?

Dell bolsters virtualization, data center portfolio

Andrew Nusca: Disney, Asus launch 'Netpal' netbook for kids