The Miami, Florida-based Mac clone maker says it’s ready to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy and get back to battling Cupertino. The company, which is due back in court to face likely oblivion at the hands of Apple legal, is still full of fight and chutzpah.

Palm yesterday responded to Apple’s announcement that it may shut off access to iTunes syncing from the Pre smartphone, simultaneously taking a stand on the matter and showing the Palm corporate ethic.

Apple has given notice that even though some third-party vendors, most notably Palm and their Pre, have gained access to iTunes for syncing, that access will be  short lived indeed.

In an update yesterday, Apple fixed one iTunes bug and patched ten security flaws in Quicktime, one of which had been hidden in plain sight in a hackers book published earlier this year.

Quo computer, a manufacturer of Mac clones, is planning to become the first Apple imitator to open a retail store to sell its product, with a storefront opening June 1 in the Los Angeles area.

One well-known security expert has grown tired of waiting for Apple to provide a fix for a Java security flaw and has published a post showing how to take advantage of the flaw.

Although it could simply be poor language skills or a general lack of sophistication, one gets the idea this criminal really doesn’t grasp what he’s talking about.

Has hell frozen over in Cupertino? However this came to be, there are (perhaps more than) a few MSI Wind owners that are cheering the big battery boost that comes by updating their Hacintosh netbooks to the latest version of Apple’s operating system.

If you have a Mac with Intel’s integrated Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 inside—MacBook, Mac mini, iMac—here’s a free, software-only method that can boost performance by increasing the GPU’s clock speed by up to 2.4 times.

Apple has been involved in a lawsuit which could test the limits of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The case involvs the rights of an audio technology forum.