Apple Must Answer Microsoft's Challenge (Forbes)
Bear Stearns discussed prospects for the iPod-maker ahead of Microsoft's new music player launch expected later this year.

Parallels' Mac Virtualization Software Moves Closer to Store Shelves (Small Biz Pipeline)
"Desktop for Mac" software runs Windows simultaneously with OS X on Apple's Intel Macs. It will sell widely (Apple's retail stores. CompUSA, Staples, Office Depot, Fry's Electronics and Amazon.com) and could remove an historic impediment to the sale of Macs -- the inability to run popular PC software. The software enables Mac us

The Myth of Web Based Applications
A discussion of some of the main benefits that web based systems tout, some of the compromises one has to live with in order to use them and a review of the principal alternative.