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Investor's Business Daily - With the intense media focus this week on Apple's new and improved iphone, another important product announcement -- a planned upgrade of the company's mac os X computer operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard -- got short shrift.

Scott Kovatch, Senior computer Scientist of Adobe Systems, announced on Tuesday at WWDC that he will be leading a project to port Java SWT to Cocoa. He emphasized that the announcement is not under the WWDC NDA

Is computer software becoming obsolete?

THE HTC Shift is many things ? a miniature tablet computer, a laptop, a smartphone, an ultra-mobile PC ? but what it isn't is a typewriter.

Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC clone market would never have happened, and IBM, rather than microsoft, might have emerged as the leading company of the computer revolution.

Featured links from the CNET Blog NetworkIntel launches visual content, game site -- Chipmaker sets up a game and visual developer site to enable developers to create graphics and video applications.iPhone music app offers new way to annoy your bandmates -- Instead of becoming a human beat box to suggest beats to the drummer, you'll be able to whip out your iphone and play what you had in mind.Supreme Court rules for Quanta in patent case -- U.S. high court hands a big win to Quanta computer in ruling that the doctrine of patent exhaustion bars LG's claims after the company.Beijing's upgrading subway ends paper tickets -- The days of tissue-thin tickets collected by human attendants are over in Beijing's underground. Riders yesterday were greeted by electronic ticketing with automatic gates.

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