"The Search For The Next Steve Jobs" ["Compare Jobs's recent recklessness to the way Microsoft managed the delicate hand-over of the company from Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer. Gates, you'll recall, was every bit as synonymous with Microsoft as Jobs is with Apple. Yet Gates managed to slide out of his company with virtually no disruption."] -- NewsWeek

"Innovation isn't enough to challenge the iPod: In early December, a bombshell hit the consumer electronics world: Barack Obama was spotted using a Zune." -- Billboard

"New PowerVR chip may give Apple's future iPhone HD, OpenCL: Hidden among the many announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a new PowerVR mobile graphics chip that could power advanced 3D, HD video and even general computing on an eventual generation of iPhones." -- AppleInsider

"Most expensive phone ever made: Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson, known for creating some of the most ‘extravagant luxurious mobile phones’ is all set to impress us again. This time, he has created a record for himself by designing the world’s most expensive phone. Priced at $2,517,345 (£1,636,000), the new Apple iPhone 3G ‘Kings Button’ is the most luxurious phone to date. This phone is made of solid 18-carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. The phone flaunts a white gold line encrusted with a total of 138 brilliant cut diamonds of the best quality." -- BuyMeAniPhone

"Apple in the enterprise: Inevitable, but still not easy/The enterprise might want Apple, but does Apple want the enterprise?" -- Computerworld

"Apple Financial Results Conference Call: Apple's conference call webcast discussing Q1 - 2009 financial results will begin at 2:00pm PT/5:00pm ET on Wednesday, January 21, 2009." -- Apple

"Google Chrome soon to land on Mac: Google on Friday said it hopes to release versions of its Chrome browser for Mac OS X and Linux by the first half of the year, and it released a new version Wednesday that paves the way for the most requested feature: extensions." -- Silicon.com

"Microsoft Windows 7 public beta now available after delays; Runs on Macs in VM: This past Saturday, Microsoft released the first public beta of Windows 7, the next version of Windows that will replace Windows Vista. Microsoft initially made the beta available on Friday, but a large volume of downloads overwhelmed the company's servers, and the company stopped the downloads. The beta was back up the next day, though reports around web say that downloading is slow. Microsoft is providing 2.5 million product keys for the beta worldwid" -- MacWindows

"Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone: how they stack up/The Pre smartphone player plays well on the Web" -- Network World