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The European Union today approved a law that will impose higher taxes on non-EU suppliers of digitally-delivered (downloaded) software and some radio and television services sold to European customers, according to c|net. Prior to the law, European customers could avoid paying Value Added Tax (VAT) by purchasing such items from non-EU nations.

Blizzard has posted version 1.09 updates for Star Craft and the Brood War expansion set for both Mac OS and Mac OS X. The new version corrects a few bugs and adds UDP network support.

A recent O’Reilly article explains how users can take advantage of Apple’s NetInfo Manager utility in Mac OS X to carry their home directory with them on an external drive and access it from any Mac OS X system. The technique is convenient for those who find themselves frequently working between Macs.

Microsoft has posted an Office 2001 Data Access update, which adds ODBC drivers to Office, allowing users to connect and retrieve data from SQL, Oracle, dBASE, Visual FoxPro, and ASCII text files, as noted by VersionTracker.

IndigoField has released Proteus 1.4.1, the latest version of the Mac OS X messaging solution that allows users to communicate with members of AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo!.