Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share in June  —  If it’s the first of the month, it’s time for me to be accused of being an indentured servant of web metrics firm Net Applications.  Nonetheless, data from thousands of web sites and millions of visitors make it at […]

Kelsey Blodget / Beet.TV:
Google Readying Analysis of World’s “One Trillion” Images  —  As it seeks to monetize the exploding universe of uploaded images to the Web, which Google says is nearing one trillion, it is developing image processing to more effectively search and organize images.

BBC:
Spam experiment overloads inboxes  —  Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee.  —  It invited 50 people from around the world, including five from the UK, to surf without spam filters.

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
AT&T announces iPhone 3G pricing plans  —  Finally, a piece of news we can actually do something with.  AT&T today announced its pricing structure for the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone.  There’s not much that’s surprising here — new customers and those eligible for an upgrade will be able …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Engadget’s Ryan Block and Peter Rojas To Team On New Startup  —  Engadget’s editor-in-chief Ryan Block will be leaving parent company AOL shortly, sources say, to launch a new startup.  Partnering with him on the new company will be Peter Rojas, Engadget’s former editor-in-chief (pictured left below, next to Block).

techzoom.net:
Understanding the Web browser threat: Examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the “insecurity iceberg”  —  Stefan Frei 1, Thomas Dübendorfer 2, Gunter Ollmann 3, Martin May 1  — Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (CSG), ETH Zurich  — IBM Internet Security Systems, IBM ISS

Mark Johnson / Powerset:
Microsoft to Acquire Powerset 2  —  We’re excited to announce officially that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Powerset.  —  Powerset has always been a small company with big dreams, with the ultimate goal of changing the way humans interact with computers through language.

Live Search:
Powerset joins Live Search  —  We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company.  —  Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco.

MSDN Blogs:
Powerset joins Live Search  —  We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company.  —  Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco.

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web  —  Ping, ping, ping!  That’s the sound made day and night by the new social media technologies rapidly proliferating around the web… and the machines are getting tired.  Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same language …