As part of a far-reaching effort to add a line of consumer electronics to its arsenal, PC maker Dell Inc. announced Thursday plans to introduce its own variations on Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store for this upcoming holiday season. [MacCentral]

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Japan's most prestigious university, the University of Tokyo, is going replace their student computers and servers, Intel-based Linux machines, with 1150 iMacs. The Asahi Shimbun article is in Japanese, so please use a web translator. [MacInTouch]

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[Doyle says] that he wants only to correct Microsoft's misdeeds and liberate the masses from the oppression of Bill Gates' vast empire. "We, because of this legal victory, will be able to reinstate a whole new area for competitive development in the software industry. The developers and the competing entities out there to Microsoft, I think, will come to find that we are more of a friend than a threat," he said.

We'll see. Seems to me he could be personally happy with oh, say, $521 million from Microsoft, or even $100 million if that's all that's left after the appeal process, and not have a need to go after everyone else in the industry too. Then he really would be able to play the role he wants the world to see him as playing. Most people don't actually fully through with such sentiments, but some do.

I remember reading about this patent a number of years ago. Once in a while I wondered what had come of it. Now I know.
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