Monday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 24, 2005 at 5:57:53 PM
Mac mini hits retail.
Firefox continues gains from IE. Firefox is awesome.
RIM loses pantent suit in US, says they're in Canada.
K-Meleon .9 is release. Faster than Firefox? I'll check it out.
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With both products, Apple is aiming to offer less costly versions of existing products in an effort to gain more mass appeal. The effort has shown early success, with multiweek waits for online orders of both the Shuffle and the Mac Mini.
Firefox continues gains from IE. Firefox is awesome.
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Mozilla, an open-source software foundation formed by Netscape, launched Firefox 1.0 in November, after recording more than 8 million downloads of its test version. As downloads continued to surge, measurement firms such as WebSideStory and Dutch market researcher OneStat.com began releasing data tracking Firefox gains and IE declines. In December, OneStat reported that IE's market share had slipped to 88.9 percent, a figure Microsoft disputed.
RIM loses pantent suit in US, says they're in Canada.
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This month, RIM made an unusual request. It wanted the appeals court to take another look at the company's argument that the limits of the border of the United States mean that NTP's patents simply do not apply to the BlackBerry system.
K-Meleon .9 is release. Faster than Firefox? I'll check it out.
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"K-Meleon 0.9 is the latest release of the fast and customizable browser that can be used instead of Internet Explorer on Windows. Powered by the same Gecko engine (1.7.5) as the Firefox and Mozilla browsers, K-Meleon provides users with a secure browsing experience."