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The official Knowledge Base article on how to backup your Mac. It covers manual backups, third party applications and Apple’s own .Mac Backup app.

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Apple is a further tinkering with its MultiTouch interface, now showing how it might be implemented on a Macbook Pro in a patent application that extends the idea from an earlier filing in 2004. No, you won’t be smudging up that gleaming screen with your pasty paws—the touchscreen on this Macbook is not actually a touchscreen at all, but a seriousl

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We’d heard that Cowon was planning to ship a 40- and 80GB iAudio X7 in September, but these supposed product shots that just surfaced at DAPreview are the first tangible evidence we’ve seen of the device. Based on what we know they look pretty legit, but our expertise on Photoshop fakery can only take us so far.

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Applied Digital Solutions, maker of radio identification tags, said Thursday that it intended to acquire complete ownership of a subsidiary.

Source: BARNABY J. FEDER

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The Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings said second quarter losses dropped significantly, but so did the number of new subscribers.

Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Veoh, an online video-sharing site, asked a judge for pre-emptive protection from a potential copyright infringement suit by Universal Music Group.

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Eastman Kodak said its second-quarter loss from continuing operations was wider than originally reported.

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In both shocking (and, frankly, kind of unshocking) news, Universal Music Group (whom we all know as the largest music conglomerate in the world) announced its intent to test DRM-free music through Real’s Rhapsody, Wal-Mart, Amazon, even Google — but not through long time begrudging online retail partner / frenemy Apple’s iTunes Plus DRM-free music store. Apparently the restriction free Universal tracks will start popping up on those other music distributors next January, during which time the company intends to closely monitor sales, increases in music piracy, etc. before going all-in; for the time being we’ve no idea which artists Universal intends to free up or just how much of its total catalogue will be distributed in this little toe-dip of theirs. But one thing we do know: between EMI and Universal, two of the top four music businesses in the world have now announced or begun distributing music without DRM, and there’s little we can find fault with about that.

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