After delays and a software preview, RIM BlackBerry finally pulled the wraps off of it's new hardware and operating system that we'd been looking for the end of January to bring.

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Apple could preview the new software, which is expected to be part of its next mobile-operating system, as soon as next week at its annual developer conference, one person familiar with the plan has said.

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The folks at Solid Signal and DBSTalk have had an early preview of the fall software update that will enable it, and have both posted hands-on impressions.

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Lightroom 5 beta marks the fifth consecutive version Adobe has offered the software for public preview and testing prior to the final release.

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Unfortunately, you don't get a preview of the cropped shot, and the software made some rather graceless choices, producing a few headless animals and weird patches of sky.

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At Fort Worth-based Travelocity.com, Preview Travel's merger partner, Vignette software allows programmers to automate the search-and-grab of ever-changing data from hundreds of suppliers and display it in thousands of combinations.

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Making the software development kit (SDK) available as a preview today.

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At Travelocity.com--Preview Travel's merger partner, based in Fort Worth, Texas--Vignette software allows programmers to automate the search-and-grab of ever-changing data from hundreds of suppliers and display it in thousands of combinations.

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Comcast ( CMCSA - news - people )--not to talk your ear off on all this stuff, but Comcast just came out with a software that works on the iPad that acts as your remote control, acts as a preview device.

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