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CenDyne today announced a 24x10x40x FireWire CD-RW. The drive comes bundled with CD-R media, a FireWire cable, AC adapter, and Adaptec Toast and carries a US$299 price tag.

Insider Software has announced the release of UpdateAgent 10.0.4 today — their utility for the Mac that brings all Macintosh applications up-to-date — including traditional Mac Classic applications, Classic apps carbonized for Mac OS X, and Cocoa applications written specifically for Mac OS X systems. The new version of UpdateAgent scans a Macintosh hard disk for outdated applications 30% faster under both Mac OS9 and OS X, according to the company’s press release.

A lengthy and interesting article in The Standard discusses eBay and its status as the “only large, unquestionably successful consumer Internet survivor.” While other dot-coms are closing doors and laying off employees, eBay continues to grow at an astonishing rate.

Bruno Blondeau has released iLabel 1.7.1, a powerful and easy-to-use label printing application primarily aimed at producing mailing labels, but also business cards, envelopes and more. This maintenance release fixes a crashing problem when launching the application on some Macs. Mac OS 8-9, Mac OS X, and French versions are available.

Apple’s retail store that it will be opening later this year in Germantown, TN is running into difficulties with local ordinances, which prohibit fruit from appearing in a company’s store sign as well any illuminated signs — the only two features that identify an Apple retail store.