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Apple will open its newest retail store on New York's Upper West Side on November 14. Set beneath a breathtaking all-glass arched roof, the street level of the Apple Store Upper West Side offers more Macs, iPods and iPhones than any store in the world for an incredible hands-on experience. The lower level features the largest area ever created by Apple for personal training and technical support, including a 45-foot Genius Bar. Located on Broadway at 67th Street, the Apple Store Upper West Side is just minutes from Lincoln Center and Central Park. A highly trained team of more than 200 employees brings the unique Apple retail experience to the Upper West Side, offering the same legendary services that Apple stores provide around the world. At the Genius Bar, customers can get free advice and expert tech support from knowledgeable experts. Customers who buy a Mac® at the Apple Store Upper West Side can join the popular One to One program for personal set-up service and personal training for just $99. Visitors can also get free tips from Specialists who are on-hand to help shoppers find the perfect gift or choose the right Mac, iPod® or iPhone® for themselves.

Valeriy Lanovenko, head of Apple office in Russia, is leaving the position. He is reported to have accepted the offer to work with another IT company.

Apple Inc. has updated Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.6.2 fixing a number of bugs including a serious issue that could result in data loss when using a guest account, potentially wiping files. The update addresses issues with new iMacs, highlighted on several Apple Discussions threads including jerky unresponsive Flash playback on websites such as YouTube. This update addresses video playback and performance issues for iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) and iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) computers that may occur in some situations while AirPort is turned on. The 10.6.2 update is available via Software Update and Apple's support downloads site. The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly, a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites, Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts, a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user. Apple also updated Mac OS X Server to version 10.6.2, including a fix for a problem where the Web calendar interface wouldn't work when the server was in the Indiana/Indianapolis time zone, a Keychain issue which might have prevented managed clients from performing Time Machine backup, and improved Mail Clustering reliability, among fixes for a host of other problems.