Apple, you have nothing to fear in Samsung's Galaxy Tab. Now I plead with you, throw down your guns.

Apple, riding continued high demand for its Mac computers and iPad tablets, has topped rivals in two new surveys of customer satisfaction.

Digital lifestyle solutions provider, Lako Pacific, recently enrolled local digital technology distributor, Scholastic Media &Technology as its exclusive partner to distribute the entire range of Kaiser Baas products.

Storage industry pioneer, Western Digital (WD), has introduced its latest generation My Book Studio external hard drives designed for use with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine.

While the overall PC market only posted a growth of just 4.5 per cent in the enterprise, Mac sales grew a massive 66 per cent during Apple's last fiscal quarter, according to AppleInsider.

Simms International has become the new distributor for cloud computing and Apple Mac desktop virtualisation vendor, Parallels. The distributor has dropped its VMware product-line in the process.

Distributor, Simms International, has inked a deal with digital entertainment provider, Creative, for its speaker and headphone lines.

Ingram Micro in New Zealand has specifically set up a new Apple business unit after landing a distribution agreement.

Microsoft's recent "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign is centered on the idea that Macs are more expensive than PCs and that the cost of core business and productivity tools for the Mac add to that expense.

Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced that it will finally release Macintosh-compatible desktop management software for BlackBerry handhelds this fall. I was lucky enough to get a quick hands-on demonstration this morning from RIM Product Manager Andrey Feldman at an event in New York City, and I dug up a few previously unannounced tidbits about RIM's upcoming software release for Apple computer users with BlackBerrys.

The bankruptcy filing by Apple cloner Psystar is hardly a surprise. Rather, it is hard to imagine any sensible person wanting to take on Apple's legal department and US$29 billion bankroll. However, that doesn't mean business users don't need--and want--Apple clones.

It would not be the end of a slow news week without more rumors concerning an Apple product with a large touchscreen. Some call it a netbook, others say a so-called "mediapad" is probably on the way, and now comes word of a "tablet" Mac, rumored to be headed our way in 2010<. What gives?