Cody Taylor

Mac OS X 10.6 explained Windows 7 may be grabbing all the headlines, but Apple isn’t standing still. It’s hard at work developing a major update to the next version of its operating system, dubbed Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.[4 pages]

The makers of the PearC brand of Mac clones say they’re standing on solid legal ground in Germany and will withstand legal action from Apple.

bmsleight writes in with a Guardian piece on the decision of the world’s second biggest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, to radically shift its attitude towards providing cheap drugs to millions of people in the developing world. “[The new CEO] said that GSK will… cut its prices for all drugs in the 50 least developed countries to no more than 25% of the levels in the UK and US — and less if possible — and make drugs more affordable in middle-income countries such as Brazil and India; put any chemicals or processes over which it has intellectual property rights that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a ‘patent pool,’ so they can be explored by other researchers; and reinvest 20% of any profits it makes in the least developed countries in hospitals, clinics, and staff.”

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Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.