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  Apple's Snow Leopard makes tracks

  special coverage Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard brings a host of updates. Keep an eye here for the latest news, plus a full review, tips, slideshows, and videos.
  • Beware fake Snow Leopard sites
  • Images: Snow Leopard
  • Snow Leopard likes Photoshop CS3

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  YouTube's first celebs: Where are they now?

  From Bowiechick to dancing Matt Harding, they became overnight Web stars. Some are still at it. Others moved on to new, related ventures.

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• Google Book Search? Try Google Library

  Friday's conference over the Google Book Search settlement will focus on privacy, quality, and Google's unique role as a private company operating a public library.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• How the Wright brothers landed an Army deal

  photos In 1909, the U.S. government paid $30,000 for a Wright Flyer, and Signal Corps Airplane No. 1 thus became the world's first military airplane.

• Apple gets higher profile in HTML standardization

  The group standardizing the fast-changing language of Web pages now has three leaders, and an Apple manager occupies the new seat.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Google could be adding mortgage info soon

  A lawsuit between LendingTree and one of its technology providers has revealed that Google is also interested in using the latter's tech to offer mortgage information.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• FCC votes to look at 'innovation' in wireless industry

  The unanimous vote is a step that could lead to more regulation, including a curb on exclusive deals like the one between Apple and AT&T.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• IBM eyes molecule 'anatomy' for future computers

  Scientists have imaged the chemical structure of an individual molecule, which may lead to the construction of electronic building blocks on an atomic scale.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Google adds translation to Docs

  Want to translate something you've written, or something that's been shared with you on Google's Docs and Spreadsheets service? Now you can.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Windows 7 to get New York launch

  Microsoft is planning two Big Apple events, including the October 22 launch for Windows 7 as well as a consumer "open house" earlier in the month.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Facebook ratchets up privacy controls (again)

  This time, Facebook is responding to advocacy groups' and policymakers' concerns about the amount of user data exposed to third-party developers.
  • ACLU chapter flags Facebook app privacy

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Italian antitrust group examining Google News

  Several Italian publishers claim Google threatened to exclude them from search results in retaliation for withholding their content from Google News.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Signs strengthen that iPod is becoming shutterbug

  Rumors grow stronger that Apple may add cameras to the iPod Nano and iPod Touch, and introduce a new digital-album format called Cocktail.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Home appliances to get Clunkers-like rebate

  Energy Department is devising a program that would give consumers rebates on EnergyStar-rated appliances and home heating and cooling equipment.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Is Pirate Bay sold? Don't believe it

  Global Gaming Factory X says its deal to acquire The Pirate Bay will go through, but nothing about this deal seems certain.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)
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