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  Apple's Snow Leopard:
  A flurry of changes

  faq Mac OS 10.6 is coming soon with some small changes that you'll like a lot. Here's what you need to know about the OS "refinements."

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  No dog days
  in Redmond

  week in review Microsoft stays busy, offering new details on the Zune HD and the next Mac Office, along with a deal with Nokia on mobile Office. Plus: a look inside SpiralFrog's short, troubled life.

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• iLike's download store debuts

  Famous for its popular Facebook app, iLike is making a foray into music downloads and will offer tunes from all four big record companies.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Legacy B-52 to launch futuristic WaveRider

  X-51A WaveRider scheduled to be dropped over Pacific Ocean in December inaugural test flight.

  (Posted in Military Tech by Mark Rutherford)

• Verizon completes initial 4G wireless test

  The wireless provider has successfully completed the first test of its 4G wireless service in the first two markets: Boston and Seattle.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Textbook publisher to rent to college students

  Facing growing competition, a leading publisher will rent college textbooks at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price.
  (From The New York Times)

• Study: Twitter is 40 percent 'pointless babble'

  Also notable in data firm Pear Analytics' breakdown of tweet species is that there's less spam than expected.
  • Twitter needs to die for micro-blogging to live

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• How condoms for men could be a thing of the past

  Scientists at the University of Utah are making progress with a "molecular" gelatinous condom to be applied by women, on women, for women.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)

• Mozilla Labs rolls out usability 'Test Pilot' add-on

  More than a year after announcing its intention to make usability and feature testing easier and more consistent, Mozilla has released its Test Pilot browser plug-in.

  (Posted in Digital Media by David Meyer)

• Cocktail part of Apple's September event

  Music industry insiders say Apple will debut its next-gen digital album experience, code-named Cocktail, at event likely to take place the week of September 7.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• DOJ defends massive file-swapping fine

  In move that echoes Bush administration arguments, Obama Justice Department says Jammie Thomas' $1.92 million fine for infringement of 24 songs is constitutional.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Security firms discover botnet on Twitter

  An account on the microblogging service can be used to host and control a botnet of infected computers, Symantec and Arbor Networks say.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Psystar begins deposing Apple executives

  Company says it is in the process of deposing several Apple executives in copyright infringement case that Apple brought against the Mac clone maker.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Google's Varian: Search scale is 'bogus'

  Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, doesn't think that Microsoft's decision to snap up Yahoo's search market share will give it any real advantage in making a quality search engine.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• How to make strong, easy-to-remember passwords

  Having strong passwords is your best defense against an intrusion, but it's hard to do. Here are some tricks and tools that can make it easier.

  (Posted in Safe and Secure by Larry Magid)
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