Apple launches a new the Billion App Countdown promotion with a chance to a win several prizes. It’s exciting to see apple to reach one billion apps downloaded worldwide. Best of all, you’ll automatically get the chance to win a fully loaded MacBook, $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, and a Time Capsul. Just go to the iTunes Store  andbrowse the App Store, then download your apps until it reach reaches the one billion mark.

Apple unveils it’s updated Xserve featuring Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor and an integrated memory controller. It’s powered by up to two 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon processors, up to 3TB of internal storage and RAID 5 support. It’s designed Designed with the environmental in mind and more energy efficiency with 89 percent better performance per watt and eliminates many toxins such as PVC and BFRs. Apple said the new Xserve delivers up to 2x the performance of the previous system It’s available $2,999 for Quad-Core, $3,599 for 8-Core and comes with an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard.

VideoLAN releases VLC media player 0.9.9, it’s latest cross-platform media player and streaming server with better video performance on Intel-based Macs and bugfixes. It also adds an experimental native decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 using FFmpeg and a complete streaming server.

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Apple offers free, 30-minute online seminars designed for startup business or a large enterprise. You can watch the free online seminars to learn how you can grow and manage your business with Mac software such as QuickBooks, AccountEdge, MoneyWorks, AcctVantage and PowerEasy.  

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