The Software Corner

In the increasing world of music services, Best Buy has decided to throw its hat into the music download service competing against the likes of Apple iTunes, Yahoo Music and probably a dozen of other competitors.

This new music service will be powered by Real’s Rhapsody (Version 4.0) music service and it will work seamlessly with the Sandisk e200R MP3 players.

The first artist that has signed an exclusive deal with the Best Buy Music Service is Diddy’s Press Play CD that will be released on October 17th.

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Adobe has released its latest version of its Acrobat family in version 8. Version 8 is going to be including many more features like collaboration.

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This is going to be the first time that downloaded music and videos will be taxed for those who live in New Jersey.

It is somewhat of a shock to people that use legal music outlets to get their music and movies will be facing a 7% tax on purchases they make from the popular iTunes store and other online outlets.

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Apple has released an updated version of its operating system. The main updates concerning 10.4.8 is for Intel users should see an improvement of using Rosetta to use software that was made for the PowerPC architecture.

Mac OS 10.4.8 also contains some fixes for both products and security features (wi-fi hack, etc…).