Thursday, December 23, 2004

iPod Users Switch to Mac OS X. For the Wall Street Journal, Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry write, [base "]In Monday[base ']s column, we predicted that the combination of the iPod[base ']s popularity and the increasing worry over viruses, security holes and spyware in Windows PCs will lead to the second coming of Apple Computer as a home-computing power. To say that struck a chord would be putting it mildly. Boy, did we ever get mail [~] including a significant number of people who said that the iPod, Windows security concerns or a combination of the two had made them switch to a Mac or plan to do so.[per thou] [Paid WSJ subscription required.] [Dec 23] [Apple Hot News] comment []9:35:19 PM

Merrill Lynch: Macs to gain market share gain in 2005 [The Macintosh News Network] comment []9:34:39 PM

Apple aims to patent fall-detecting iPod. Technology would detect increase in acceleration that accompanies the portable music player's drop. [CNET News.com] comment []8:24:12 PM

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation. The license that forms the legal underpinnings of Linux--and a software industry revolution--is being updated for the first time since 1991. [CNET News.com] comment []2:36:17 PM

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