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I'm a Mac. You're a PC. But we both need antivirus software.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last Thursday emphasized the company's ambitions in search and virtualization while offering his perspective on the current nervous US economic situation.

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak will be in line all Thursday night to buy an iPhone 3G, but he said most of his friends with the original device aren't ponying up for the new one.

It merited only an aside in Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The real information about the next version of Mac OS X, if any, was flashed later in the day only to developers, and only under a nondisclosure agreement that promises vengeance unto the third generation if broken. So, what we know about that operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, is: It exists. And the widespread pre-WWDC rumors were on target when they said that Snow Leopard, unlike, oh, every other major OS X revision, will feature ... no new features.

Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple Computer to have Java applications run on Apple's iPhone while acknowledging a third party's efforts toward the same goal.

IBM Thursday disclosed that 100 of its researchers are giving Apple Macintosh computers a go to find out whether they are a strong option for use in the workplace.

A US-based company that began advertising a Mac clone called "OpenMac" for US$399 said Monday that it was stunned by the response and couldn't take orders because its Web site had gone under.

Memories of your first computer can be priceless.

So the high-definition DVD war's over, and to the victor go the spoils.

Sun offered informational updates Monday on several ongoing efforts in the open-source arena, including product plans for the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS, Java, and the GlassFish application server.