Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders.

When I heard about all that new features and enhancements Apple was going to make to their iPhone platform, I jumped for joy over the possibilities. Innovations such as push notifications and Spotlight search can make even smart use of all the technology they’ve crammed into this small form factor.

Every so often, operating systems need a little bit of TLC in the form of a major system upgrade.

Apple announced a major update to the Xserve line on Tuesday with a rev of Intel processors.