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BusinessWeek reports that Apple has set up Braeburn Capital, a Nevada-based corporation that will manage the company’s US$8.7 billion hoard of cash and short-term investments and take advantage of the state’s loose tax laws. BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl noted that Apple’s cash position is up 91% from the $4.6 billion it had at the end of 2003; the company is also debt-free. More …

Braeburn — named for a variety of apple that’s uniquely sweet and tart.

Macs Only has benchmarks of XP running a MacBook Pro compared with a HP laptop, with the comment that ” As you can see, the MacBook Pro held its own, even with the similarly equipped Hewlett-Packard laptop packing twice the RAM.”

MarketWatch reports that despite all the buzz Podcasting just isn’t generating any real interest. It seems that only 1 percent of those on the internet say they listen with any regularity.