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Mac clone maker says Apple's hold on Mac OS X lets it gouge consumers. The Mac clone maker that has countered an Apple Inc. lawsuit with one of its own said that forcing the California computer maker to undo an illegal tie between the Mac OS X operating system and its hardware would force it to drop prices, according to court documents filed Thursday. Psystar Corp., a Doral, Fla.-based seller of Intel-based computers, also charged that Apple enjoys "monopoly power" from the licensing link it's forged between its hardware and the Mac OS. In its response to an Apple lawsuit...

Infected Web ads are poisoning Mac and Windows users' clipboards with URLs, researchers said Tuesday, in a "very cunning" attack designed to trick people into visiting sites touting bogus security software. Flash-based ads that have been infected with malicious script and somehow inserted into the Web advertising ecosystem are planting the URLs into clipboards on both Macs and PCs running Windows, said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with U.K.-based Sophos. "We do think that Flash is the technology being abused," said Cluley, "because it does have a facility to put content into people's clipboards." The most likely method, another...

In his highly anticipated memoir, former Gov. James E. McGreevey writes of his deep love for the man who ended his political career, the destruction of his second marriage and the events that forced him into his stunning admission on national television that he is gay. In "The Confession," the former governor also touches on New Jersey's sometimes seamy political landscape, where cash, cronyism and a handful of powerful men intersect. But the 384-page book focuses mostly on McGreevey's secret life, from his frequent sexual encounters with men at highway rest stops to his infatuation with Golan Cipel, the Israeli...