41.   Apple Computer Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Gilbert Amelio resigned a week before the struggling computer maker is set to report its third- quarter earnings.

42.   Apple has also licensed its Macintosh operating system to several smaller computer makers.

43.   Apple Computer Inc. also is struggling, hurt by slipping market share and falling revenue as co-founder and interim Chief Executive Steven Jobs seeks to right the computer maker.

44.   Apple Computer Inc. Chairman Gilbert Amelio further detailed his reorganization of the ailing computer maker, naming several key executives and reinstituting a worldwide sales group.

45.   Apple Computer Inc. may rise, after the New York Times reported that the computer maker is seeking a friendly merger partner.

46.   Apple Computer Inc. said director Delano Lewis, president and chief executive of National Public Radio, resigned from the board of the beleaguered computer maker.

47.   Apple said marketing chief Guerrino De Luca resigned after only seven months on the job, the latest in a series of executive changes at the struggling computer maker.

48.   ANOTHER MICROSOFT VIDEO DISPUTE Microsoft showed a video intended to demonstrate that it is already granting computer makers the flexibility to alter the Windows desktop.

49.   --Apple is off to a slow start in getting other computer makers to clone Macs.

50.   As analysts who cover the personal computer industry see it, large computer makers including Dell and Compaq, have never been damsels in distress endangered by Microsoft.