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MacScoop reports, that while still considerable buggy, nothing critical, the build is likely feature frozen and ready for the team to work on stability. According to a roadmap MacScoop acquired, Leopard is right on track. More …

Some products didn’t deserve to die, but they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Great designers often do not make even good managers. CIO’s “Dearly Departed”, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities. Names will be familiar to most of you. Always fun. More …

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended June 30, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million, or $.92 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.37 billion and net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.9 percent, up from 30.3 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 33 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous company record for quarterly Mac® shipments by over 150,000. The Company also sold 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 21 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. More …

As of this writing, iPhone Widget lists 230 web applications. More than double over last week’s. number. Other sites listing iPhone apps are uPhoneHome, Mojits, Leaflets, MockDock, iPhone Application List and iPhone Appr.

Mozilla released Thunderbird 2.0.0.5, a security update for the open source mail and news reader. This release addresses issues with allow remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer and with crashes caused by memory corruption.

Mozilla also released SeaMonkey 1.1.3, a suite that includes a web browser, email client, IRC chat client, and WYSIWYG web page composer. This release addresses a more extensive list of security and stability fixes.

Tracy Futhey, Duke’s chief information officer, updates the wireless situation where it was first reported that the iPhone had brought the network down. Later, the iPhone was reported the problem. Turns out it Cisco provided the fix to the Duke network. More …

Suppose you wanted to create a backup of part or all of your Mall.app email. You can simply drag email to your desktop, or you could create an “offline mailbox, to which you can copy email to right within Mail.app. This KB article tells you how to set this up. More …

Canada.com reports that Apple is expected to beat Wall Street analysts’ estimates when it reports results for its third fiscal quarter on July 25. More …

Piper Jaffrey has set a $205 price target for AAPL, as shares traded up to more than $142 today in anticipation of AAPL’s Q3 results conference call on July 25, Yahoo Finance reports. More …

iTwire reports that Apple cornered flash memory, now Apple’s need is driving price. Other manufacturers are forced to pay the price that higher demand requires. Apple has to be lauded for anticipating flash memory requirements. It did not help that a glitch in a change of processes reduced supply. More …

Important security fixes in the new Firefox 2.0.0.5 are: remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer, more crashes with evidence of memory corruption, unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents, privilege escallation using an event handler attached to an element not in the document, among others. Download Page