De officieuze rapporten van Apple Weblog: … met de recente aanwinsten ging Apple een belangrijke mijlpaal over. Apple heeft een grotere marktkapitalisatie dan IBM, eenvoudig betekenend dat Apple nu de waardevolste maker van de computerhardware in de wereld is. Laat me zeggen dat opnieuw: Apple, vanaf dit het schrijven, drijft boven $185 per aandeel handel dat het een markt GLB van $161b, in vergelijking met IBM in $153b, PK bij $133b en Dell bij measly $65b geeft. Lees het artikel op Tuaw.Com

De toepassing van het octrooi van Woorden Microsoft. ontbreekt me. Lees wat Wired.Com moest zeggen.

Apple’s successes with the iPod are finally translating into real momentum for its computer business, if statistics from Net Applications are any indication. The market research firm measured a 40 percent increase year over year in Mac usage on the Internet in September. As of the end of the month, 6.6 percent of Internet users were accessing the Web via Macs, up from 4.7 percent in September 2006. Read the full article on BetaNews.Com [found via SwitchingToMac.Com]

Once a month, we summarize all the content the LiveSecurity Service sent to you in the previous calendar month. Did you miss anything essential in September? The list below will let you know.

LiveSecurity will honor National Cyber-Security Awareness month by posting an educational video every Wednesday in October, starting with “Malware Analysis: Botnets (Part 1).” Keep an eye on your Inbox, or on the LiveSecurity Video Tutorials page, for the latest developments!

Content sent in September 2007 includes:

Vulnerability Alerts

6 September
iTunes “blows your cover” with security flaw

11 September
MSN Messenger buffer overflow makes webcam sessions dangerous
Critical: Flaw makes Windows component a double agent

Software Updates

19 September
WatchGuard System Manager, Fireware, and Fireware Pro 9.1

26 September
Firebox X Edge e-Series 8.6.1

WatchGuard Wire

Eleven Wire entries in September covered a range of topics, from a Skype worm, to

A nexus of events, iPhone current and projected sales and possible iPod announcements on Wednesday have listed Apple’s stock dramatically, according to MarketWatch on Tuesday. Analysts, including Gene Munster, are also expecting Apple to sell 2 million Macs this quarter. Mr. Munster has set an “outperform” rating for AAPL and a target price of US$211. Read the full article on macobserver.com

(The predicted 2 million Macs sold would equal a minimum of $2,398,000,000 for Apple based on the lowest end iMac, or $1,598,000,000 if they were all Mac minis. Either way, my money will be in there too somewhere.)