New & Noteworthy: Apple financial numbers due today; Its a flat world after all; Peer-to-peer security woes; more

Apple financial results due Apple will report its latest quarterly financial numbers in a conference call at 2:30 PST today.

A Flat, Flat, Flat Screen World From Wired: "With Apple's sleek new iMac leading the way, flat screen displays are poised to muscle bulky TV-style computer monitors off desks and into dumpsters. Despite a sluggish global economy, worldwide sales of stand-alone flat screen displays, also known as liquid crystal displays or LCDs, will rise 64 percent in 2002, while sales of traditional cathode-ray tube, or CRT, monitors will drop 6 percent, according to Eric Haruki, an analyst for the consulting firm IDC." More.

Is your computer inviting voyeurs? From MSNBC: "There it was, just sitting out there on the Internet, for all to see. "The keys to the condo are located in a lock box mounted on the wall outside the entry door. The combination is 0-8-3-6." The recipient of the instructions, Catalina, is only weeks away from a long-awaited vacation at a ski resort, but she had no idea that her computer was telling the world where she was going, when she would be there, and how to break into her rental condo until MSNBC.com contacted her." More.

Security Flaws May Be Pitfall for Microsoft From the Los Angeles Times: "As the company shifts toward interactive services, its latest vulnerabilities do little to bolster customer confidence. Competitors and federal regulators have failed to stop Microsoft Corp.'s march toward dominance of new areas of the computing world, but there is an increasing chance that one of the software giant's own strategies could hinder its advance." More.

PC writer to go all-Mac for a month ZDnet's Anchor Desk writer, David Coursey, is giving his Windows machine for a month to work exclusively on a new Mac. There is a poll in the article as well: "How will I feel about Mac and Windows after 30 days?" (Thanks, Mark Reynolds.)

The Onion's take on the flat-panel iMac Check it out!