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John Gruber of “Daring Fireball” (http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/reading_between_the_iphone_os_4_lines) says that “Mac OS X 10.7 development continues, but with a reduced team and an unknown schedule.” He’s predicting that there’ll be no Mac OS X 10.7 news at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference and “probably none” until WWDC 2011.

The US Department of Justice is investigating a number of Silicon Valley giants, including Apple, over hiring practices that allegedly include agreements to not poach each others’ top talent, according to “The Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304703104575174293867620832.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews). Such agreements could potentially violate labor laws.

Seagate (http://www.seagate.com) and Paramount Digital Entertainment, a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC) have teamed up to pre-load a selection of 500GB FreeAgent Go ultra-portable hard drives with Paramount movies.

Hundreds of TV viewers in the Washington, D.C. area are just a few days away from their first taste of a new broadcast technology that enables viewing of TV programs while “on the go.” For the first time, viewers will be able to watch local digital TV broadcasts on a variety of mobile devices, including specially-equipped iPhones, and iPads.

The Final Cut Pro User Group Network says the Ninth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet (http://www.supermeet.com, scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 13, in the Amazon Ballroom at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, will be live video streamed (http://www.supermeet.com/live) over the Internet by Boinx Software and Zaplive.tv.