Google's Schmidt: Innovation must come first

Google's Eric Schmidt calls for new government spending to improve broadband and encourage alternative energies.

Opinion: Apple’s enterprise strategy the same as it ever wasThe retirement of Al Shipp, Apple’s senior vice president of enterprise sales, coupled with the fact that Apple has no plans to hire a replacement has some people suggesting that Apple is abandoning the enterprise. But John C. Welch argues that Apple never supported the enterprise in the first place.
Connect: How to add network attached storageIf you need to back up multiple Macs or share media files on your home (or small-business) network, you might need more than a USB drive attached to your AirPort base station or Time Capsule. Kirk McElhearn explains why network attached storage might be a better solution.

Review: Final Cut Server 1.1 Final Cut Server is a client-server-based workflow tool that can potentially help you in three ways: in cataloging and searching assets, especially video-based assets; with version control through check-in and check-out capabilities and approval; and with automation capabilities to convert, copy, and execute scripts.
Review: Apple Xserve Apple's rackmount server now sports Intel quad-core Xeon processors inside its slim 1U package. The 2008 Edition of the Xserve has powerful options, but deploying the device into your network should be carefully planned.

Connect: How to add network attached storage If you need to back up multiple Macs or share media files on your home (or small-business) network, you might need more than a USB drive attached to your AirPort base station or Time Capsule. Kirk McElhearn explains why network attached storage might be a better solution.

Opinion: Apple’s enterprise strategy the same as it ever was The retirement of Al Shipp, Apple’s senior vice president of enterprise sales, coupled with the fact that Apple has no plans to hire a replacement has some people suggesting that Apple is abandoning the enterprise. But John C. Welch argues that Apple never supported the enterprise in the first place.
Opinion: Parallels Server for Mac underwhelms InfoWorld’s Tom Yager weighs in on Parallels Server for Mac, the virtualization product that opens Xserve and Mac Pro to 64-bit heterogeneous environments.
A closer look at Snow Leopard Server Here’s a closer look at what Apple has revealed about the next major OS X Server update and what it means when the finished version arrives in a year or so.
The Apple of the future The Apple of five years from now will most certainly be different from the Apple of today. But as Dan Moren suggests, it probably won’t be a future anybody can predict.
Welcome to the Macworld Lab Associate Editor Brian Chen welcomes you to Macworld's newest blog, From the Lab.