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Inability to print after installing OS X 10.6.8

A number of Mac users have run into a problem after applying the OS X 10.6.8 software update that was released yesterday, in which their printers have stopped working. The printer will still be installed, but print jobs fail and the printer is stuck in a paused state. People experiencing this problem may see an error in the system console (shown in the Console utility) that mentions a problem related to "backend" such as the following:

printer-state-message="/usr/libexec/cups/backend/lpd failed

Backend returned status -8 (crashed) Printer stopped due to backend errors

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IBM focuses on behind-the-scenes mobile market

IBM wants to be the behind-the-scenes software provider of the mobile phone market, the company said Wednesday as it discussed its mobile enterprise strategy and opened a new software research and development center in Massachusetts.

The facility based in Littleton, Mass., is Big Blue's largest campus in North America devoted to software development with roughly 3,400 employees. The new campus will focus on developing software and applications for the mobile phone market. Unlike other large technology companies that have taken the mobile market by storm, such as Apple and Google, IBM isn't developing a smartphone operating system … Read more