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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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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Amazon Does the Obvious, Finally: Adds Video on IMDB — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has finally done what many have been asking it since the time the company bought IMDB: it has enabled video on the film and TV database/info site. The company says users can now watch 6,000 full-length feature films …
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Chuck / Business Wire:
Users Can Now Watch Full-Length Movies and TV Shows for Free on IMDb.com — Beta feature debuts with over 6,000 TV episodes and movies — The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the authoritative source of information on movies, TV and celebrities, and a subsidiary of Amazon.com …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:The Internet Movie Database adds the “movie” part to the “database” part
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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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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
New MacBooks shipping all around us, unseen? — Disappointment following certain Apple events is hardly new. The company sets the bar so high that now it seems anything less than a new iPhone will be a disappointment. Apple's “Let's Rock” even last week was no different.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Drudge Report: News Site That Sends Readers Away With Links Has Highest Engagement — There are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn't send people away or else they won't come back to your site.
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Verizon BlackBerry Storm 9530 Announcement Video!! — Update: We now have the actual .pdf files that went out to VZW employees. Check them out after the jump. In addition to the Talking Points document (widely seen already), there's also a Q&A .pdf. Not much new here, but it does have a table comparing the Storm to the iPhone 3G.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget Mobile:
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.
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.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Bleeds Purple. And You Thought Microsoft's Marketing Campaign Was Weird — Apparently Yahoo has caught the bizarre marketing bug. Today the company has launched “Start Wearing Purple”, a campaign that is trying to capitalize on the color's reported association with …
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 …
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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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Ubuntu-Firefox EULA dustup reignites OSS licensing debate — Mozilla has received widespread criticism from within the open-source community for bundling a EULA with official binary builds of Firefox 3. Critics argue that including a conventional user license agreement in Firefox is antithetical …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
‘BusinessWeek’ site hacked in potential malware attack — Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday.
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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HP:
HP Announces Plans to Integrate EDS — Move designed to create greater opportunities for customers while streamlining costs — At its securities analyst meeting today, HP will unveil a strategic plan to establish a powerful position in the evolving enterprise market.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:HP To Cut Workforce By 7.5%, Or 24,600, Over 3 Years
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Things That Podcaster's Rejection From the App Store Is Not About — Daniel Dilger has a piece on Roughly Drafted today arguing that Apple's rejection of Podcaster from the App Store should not have been a surprise, and in fact should have been expected under section 3.3.3 of the iPhone SDK Agreement.
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Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey:
Rumor: Windows 7 to Arrive Early, First Beta Due October 27 — Windows 7, the much-anticipated successor to Microsoft's Windows Vista OS, may arrive ahead of schedule. Although Microsoft has previously said that Windows 7 would not arrive until early 2010, new rumors surfaced Monday claiming …
