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Apple’s iBook has received top awards in the PC Notebook category from both Australian Personal Computer Magazine and the >APC Technology Awards 2001. Both organizations cited the iBook’s price and performance as a combination that could not be matched by any other vendor.

In addition to games that have recently begun shipping, Mac game developers and publishers alike are working overtime in order to get the latest games on store shelves in time for the holidays, or shortly thereafter. id Software recently announced that its WWII-era, first-person shooter, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, is in the final stages of development for Mac OS X and expects to make it available by Christmas.

ZDNet‘s David Coursey supports Apple’s claim that Microsoft’s proposed US$1 billion settlement donation to underprivledged schools would erode Apple’s marketshare in education and provide Microsoft with a reward for their past wrongdoings.

President Bush yesterday renewed a ban on Internet taxes, ensuring that millions of U.S. Internet shoppers will not have to pay new taxes on their online purchases for at least another two years, according to c|net. The ban was first passed by legislators in 1998 to prevent taxation from slowing the growth of the e-tailing industry. The Bush White House expects online spending to account for 15 percent of sales during the holiday season.

Graphic Simulations Corporation is now shipping Red Faction, a unique first-person shooter developed by Volition that was first released on the PlayStation 2 this past spring. Players take the role of Parker, a miner employed on the distant planet of Mars who suddenly finds himself an integral part of an uprising against the Ultor Corporation.