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June 27, 2008
Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home. He leaves his full-time executive role at Microsoft, which he co-founded with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, to focus on his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Washington Post

June 26, 2008
Adobe Ships Creative Suite 3.3 Collection
Adobe Wednesday introduced Creative Suite 3.3, including the Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions. The updated versions include Acrobat 9 Pro, which now lets PDFs also incorporate and play back video, audio, and application files created in Flash. Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium also includes Adobe Fireworks CS3 software. eDigit

June 20, 2008
Digidesign releases Pro Tools for Mac OS X Leopard
Digidesign released an update on Thursday for its digital audio workstation, Pro Tools, bringing compatibility with Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard. Pro Tools 7.4.2 is available for Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered. MacWorld

June 18, 2008
Sproutcore is Apple's 'Flash, Silverlight- Killer'
Apple's quietly deploying a new Web technology that could help it combat Silverlight and Flash, SproutCore. SproutCore is a JavaScript framework designed to make Web applications that work a lot like desktop apps. The solution was developed outside Apple by Charles Jolley, but Apple soon hired the developer to its .Mac (now MobileMe) team. eDigit

May 29, 2008
Quark announces QuarkXPress 8
Quark on Thursday announced the next major version of its page-layout software, QuarkXPress 8. The new version, which will be available in the next 60 days, will offer many enhancements including a new interface and built-in Flash authoring. MacWorld

May 16, 2008
Flash Player 10 Available for Public Testing
Adobe today announced the prerelease version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available in beta from Adobe Labs. The new version (code name Astro_ promises many new features for designers and developers, including support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout and GPU hardware acceleration. eDigit

May 15, 2008
FastMac Announces Universal Battery Charger for Apple Laptops
FastMac today announced "U-Charge," a universal battery charger for multiple Apple laptops including iBooks, MacBooks & PowerBooks. The new U-Charge works externally & connects directly to the battery's terminals to recharge the battery quickly and efficiently, without the need for a laptop. Batteries from multiple Apple laptops can be recharged using this single, compact, lightweight and portable charger. FastMac