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AppleInsider: Apple Computer is once again facing a problem that it has become all too familiar with — not enough supply of its most popular products to meet growing demand.

AppleInsider: Leading notebook makers Apple, Dell, and Lenovo will hold a summit meeting in San Jose, Calif. next month to begin development of standards for the manufacture of lithium ion batteries for portable and handheld electronics.

Writing for InfoWorld, Tom Yager says it took an attack on a Windows production server, not devotion to Apple, to put that provocative title on this article. “I’ve been giving it great deal of thought, and I came up with a reasons pointing to the likelihood that Windows is at greater risk of catastrophic attacks. It’s not easy reading, but it was either this dense packing or a book-length blog post: All Windows background processes/daemons are spawned from a single hyper-privileged process and referred to as services; By default, Windows launches all services with SYSTEM-level privileges [...]” More …

Apple and Creative have announced a broad settlement ending all legal disputes between the two companies. Apple will pay Creative $100 million for a paid-up license to use Creative’s recently awarded patent in all Apple products.

“Creative is very fortunate to have been granted this early patent,” said Steve Jobs. “This settlement resolves all of our differences with Creative, including the five lawsuits currently pending between the companies, and removes the uncertainty and distraction of prolonged litigation.”

The companies announced that Creative has joined Apple’s Made for iPod program and will be announcing their own iPod accessory products later this year.

Lastly, Apple can recoup a portion of its payment if Creative is successful in licensing this patent to others.