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MacMinute’s Executive Briefing for September 29 — 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…

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.1 update that will be available for free from dealers tomorrow will not include the Mac OS X 10.1 Developer Tools CD, MacMinute has learned. The CD will only be available in the full Mac OS X 10.1 package and through Apple’s Mac OS Update-To-Date program (the much-discussed “free” update that costs US$19.95 for shipping and handling).

Aspyr Media has posted Tomb Raider Chronicles 1.0.1, an update to its popular 3D action-adventure title. Version 1.0.1 fixes two locations in the game where freezes can occur: in the Labyrinth when pulling the second lever, and under Mac OS X only, when fighting one of the Guardians.

Destineer today announced that it will ship Links Championship Edition simulatenously for Mac and PC in November with the same features and price tag. The Mac version, being developed by Destineer’s Mac studio, Bold, will ship Carbonized for Mac OS X.

A battered Excite@home is expected to file a pre-packaged bankruptcy filing later today that involves AT&T acquiring its high-speed cable modem service. AT&T relies on Excite@home for its cable modem service and already owns a good stake in the company. As part of the deal, AT&T will also gain Excite@home’s 3.7 million customers. AT&T apparently has no interested in the Excite portal, however, whose future at this point seems dim.