Morning Xtra: Apple Blings on 5th Ave., Craigslist Gets Even More Local

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines...
- Tiffany's? Chanel? Who needs 'em, when Apple is perhaps the highest grossing retailer on New York's glitzy Fifth Avenue. Apple doesn't give out store-based revenue info, but retail-based realtor Newmark Knight Frank has guessed the 10,000-square-foot location pulls in about $350 million. That means Jobs and Co. sell the equivalent of one Mercedes Benz per square foot. [From: Bloomberg]
- Bad news for local papers: Craigslist has added 150 more cities, globally and in the U.S., like smaller towns Susanville, California (population of 18,000) and Oneonta, New York (population of 13,000). [From: NYTimes.com, via PaidContent]
- Apple has officially announced the release date for Snow Leopard, and it's the end of this week. On Friday, Leopard users can upgrade for $29, or the entire software bundle can be purchased for $129. Kudos to Apple for not forcing users to pay majorly for a OS upgrade. [From: TUAW]
- Another eBook poised to challenge the Kindle has appeared, this time from Barnes & Nobles and produced by Danish company Irex. Hitting the U.S. this fall, the reader has a wireless 3G connection and is the second e-reader pairing with B&N. (The first was Plastic Logic.) [From: AllThingsDigital]
- According to business analysts, mobile TV has been slow to take off, with 20-percent of avid users only watching daily. This may be good news for some, like avant director David Lynch, who thinks movie viewing should be an experience (careful, strong language). [From: BBC.co.uk]





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