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Deneba Software has announced the release of Canvas 8 Professional Edition for Mac OS X — the company’s illustration application that integrates photo editing, page layout, presentation, and Web graphics capabilities in one application. Canvas 8 contains a slew of enhancements and new features including vector and raster Sequence recording and support for AppleScript, ColorSync, and QuickTime.

MacMinute’s Executive Briefing for October 13 — a recap of all the news we have posted over the past week — is now available. If you think you may have missed something, here is your chance to catch up…

Handspring, looking no doubt to capitalize off the continued delays of Palm’s m700 wireless handheld, is rumored to be introducing its own wireless handhelds on Monday. Details of the device are scarce at this point, although shares of Handspring have jumped more than 10 percent on the news. C|net has additional details on the products and photos.

An interesting O’Reily Network article discusses how an ISP in Maine is providing wireless Internet access using 802.11 technology (not 802.11b, as AirPort uses) along Maine’s coast and other areas where broadband is not available. While the upfront cost is relatively high, users akin to connecting at no more than 28.8Kbps are able to share a T1 for access.

MacUser UK has “confirmed” that Apple will introduce updated portables on October 16. The site speculates that the iBook will get a boost to a 600MHz while the PowerBook G4 will be ugraded to 667MHz. Other details are less certain, although it’s rumored that the CD-ROM iBook may be dropped due to low demand, and that the PowerBook G4’s DVD-ROM drive will be replaced by a CD-RW. The October 16 announcement date is in line with what we at MacMinute have been hearing.