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

Taming the Microsoft Excel Animal
Excel is flexible, easy, and useful, unless you end up neglecting your spreadsheets. Do that and you'll have a resource-hungry monster on your hands. The kind of spreadsheet that slows your computer to a halt, raids your refrigerator, and leaves the toilet seat up when guests are over. This article covers three ways to raise happy, healthy spreadsheets!