Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple recently recruited a top chip designer from IBM, resulting in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the executive from taking his knowledge as “IBM’s top expert in Power architecture and technology” to the Mac maker.

Apple recruits top chip designer, IBM responds with suit

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple has updated its MobileMe web service software, but hasn’t noted the update in its MobileMe news blog or otherwise notified subscribers of the new changes outside of an article on the company’s support sit

Apple silently updates MobileMe web apps

Daniel Eran Dilger

This election has done little to upgrade the intellectual level of debate in this country, with both sides seeking to pander to a lowest common denominator audience by reducing everything to simple word association. Here’s a series of questions that go beyond the buzzword, in this case, socialism. See if you can answer them correctly. Hint: the answers are all TRUE.
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