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Pigs can fly, and It’s snowing in Hell and Apple just passed Microsoft in business value.

In one of the clearest signs yet of the renaissance that’s finally putting a close to The Dark Age of Personal Computing, Apple Inc. (AAPL) has overtaken Microsoft (MSFT) to become the second-most-valuable U.S. company.

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Is Palm, maker of the beloved Pilot on its deathbed?

If you are one of the millions that once could not live without your “second brain” a.k.a the Palm Pilot®, the memories of such days may well be reduced to just that, only memories.
With an inability to stave of defections to the now ubiquitous BlackBerry® manufactured by Canadian company RIMM, or the now ubiquitous replacement [...]

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Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs?

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from CIO.com. Visit CIO’s Macs in the Enterprise page.
Does “I’m a Mac” mean “I’m less expensive to manage?” An Enterprise Desktop Alliance survey says Macs cost a lot less than PCs to manage — yet Macs come with special challenges for enterprise IT admins.
By Tom Kaneshige
Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop [...]

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