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About the Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update — The Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update is recommended for Mac OS X Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and 10.5.4. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.5 — After weeks of developer seeds, Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.5 to customers. The latest upgrade to Leopard is available through your Mac OS X Software Update. — The 10.5.5 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
New iPhone Chip Will Cost an ARM and a Missile — Given Apple's super-secretive ways, it's quite a shock to find a company engineer disclosing something about the iPhone's future innards on a public social networking site. — Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple's chip team …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Citi Says Sept. Qtr Tracking Ahead Of Street Ests; Contends Shipments Have Begun On New MacBooks — Citigroup's Richard Gardner asserted in a research note this morning that Apple's September quarter is tracking in line with his above-consensus revenue estimate of $8.3 billion …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Everyone but Apple joins new “buy once, play anywhere” group — Buying a movie online is simple; it's watching it on the device you want that's hard. The movie studios have been reluctant to allow DVD burning from online stores (and when they do, it doesn't always work) …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Verizon Blackberry Storm talking points slip out — We're still waiting on Verizon's official launch of the Blackberry Storm, but the anticipation is running high, especially since we just received a list of specs and talking points distributed to store reps about RIM's first touchscreen phone.
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
More Verizon BlackBerry Storm Images... UPDATE: ‘Mr. Blurrycam’ (Thanks for the hilarious reference Engadget Mobile!) has sent in another image from his Pearl. I've posted it above for your viewing pleasure. The snaps are coming from the Verizon vid that was circulated …
Google Mac Blog:
Gears for Safari — We're really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS X (minimum requirements are Leopard 10.5.3 or Tiger 10.4.11). — You can download it today from http://gears.google.com. — This means that you can now access all the Gears-enabled sites …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:The future of online is offline: Gears for Safari gets official
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Isn't A Social Network. And Stop Trying to Make New Friends There — A controversy is brewing over a popular Facebook application called PackRat, where users collect sets of illustrated cards for points and levels. The company behind the application, Alamofire …
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louisgray.com:
As Twitter Regains Footing, Competitors' Growth Stalls — Over the last few months, Twitter's challenges have been well documented, here and elsewhere. Between issues with uptime, occasional data loss, a reduced feature set, and a difficult relationship with its developer community …
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Times of London:
Google search finds seafaring solution — Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. — The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
Reuters:
EU competition officials probing Google-Yahoo deal — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union antitrust watchdogs are looking into a planned deal between Internet giants Google Inc and Yahoo Inc to share some advertising revenue. — “In mid-July, we decided to open a preliminary investigation …
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Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog:
Giga Omni Media Acquires The Apple Blog — In November of 2004, a few months after I got my first Mac (a PowerMac G5), I registered theappleblog.com not really having any big plans of what I'd do with the site. I was a senior design student in college and just wanted a new site to design and something to write about.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
HTC's Touch HD unveiled in very much official glory — We're still sans a press release, but a friendly tipster found this quite official page at HTC's very own site, depicting the sexy Touch HD from every angle, with every spec exposed. The rumors were naturally spot on …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Chrome Q&A — Via email, I've asked Google group product manager Brian Rakowski a couple of questions in regards to Google's web browser. Chrome has been in development for 2 years... did the initial designs resemble what has been released now, or were there a lot of interface …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
The Next Chapter: Best Buy To Acquire Napster For $121 Million — Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has fallen into the arms of a surprise buyer: Best Buy. The big-box electronics giant will pay $121 million or $2.65 per share. Shares of Napster closed at $1.36 on Friday, so this is nearly double …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
HP To Cut Workforce By 7.5%, Or 24,600, Over 3 Years — Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) this afternoon said that that as part of its plan to absorb newly acquired EDS it will cut the combined company's workforce by 7.5%, or 24,600 people, over three years. The company said “nearly half” …
The Official Google Blog:
Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows: increased performance — We love getting your feedback, and one of the themes that has cropped up in the Google Desktop Help group is that you want a lighter, faster product. We heard the message loud and clear and decided that the Google Desktop 5.8 …
Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:
Quality Score improvements to go live in coming days — Last month, we posted about upcoming Quality Score improvements — and today, we're following up to notify you that these changes will take effect in all advertisers' accounts over the next few days. In addition, we'd like to answer …
