The Pleasance, London

Maybe I'm still grouchy from the jetlag after getting back from MacExpo, but early-morning reading over at Businessweek.com leaves me wondering what on earth they're on. First up, BW's normally-reliable Apple columnist Charles Haddad is off on leave, and his replacement thinks Apple failed to launch a new PowerMac line…

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Bridewell, London

Liberate Technologies has filed an 8-K form that says: "As part of its ongoing efforts to align operating expenses with revenues, Liberate Technologies is terminating the employment of approximately 180 employees effective January 10, 2003, and expects to transition out approximately 60 other employees during the next three months." Last…

Well: we didn't see that coming. I'm just back from a two-hour Jobs keynote here at MacExpo, where the Apple CEO left the sceptics and the gossips confounded with an array of updated software and a couple of new computers for good measure.