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While Apple is truly the leader in terms of personal-computer innovation, as the new iMac demonstrates [TECHNOLOGY, Jan. 14], it will never become the digital hub of the home of the future. The reason is, as Steve Jobs says, "[Apple is] the only company that owns the whole widget--the hardware, the software and the operating system." But what Jobs sees as Apple's biggest advantage is also the barrier that will block the company from reaching its goal. There is a reason that the Windows/Intel PC is the standard in personal computers and that its makers control...
...sleekest, most stable, most intuitive consumer OS ever made. Every reviewer in the computer trade press swoons over its hardware—the iBook, the Titanium PowerBook, and especially the new iMac. And its software strategy, built around the Macintosh as a “digital hub,” has produced a string of successful, free multimedia applications like iTunes and iPhoto. The result: despite a meager market share of 4.5 percent, Apple, like Dell, actually made a profit selling PCs last year, something none of the other, more conventionally led companies can claim...
Leicester, a manufacturing town in the English Midlands with a large Muslim community and exemplary race relations, is emerging as a hub for suspected Algerian terror-related activities. Apart from Beghal, Daoudi, Meziane and Benmerzouga, French brothers David and Jerome Courtellier - the latter arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of terrorism - also apparently stayed in Leicester. Raids by antiterrorist police in the town two weeks ago scooped up nine Algerian suspects. Terrorism charges were subsequently dropped against all of them, but five are being investigated for credit-card fraud...
...Steve Jobs and Apple, found himself once again in the glow of the infamous Jobs "reality distortion field" while reporting this week's cover story. Quittner's take: So what if you don't have a Mac? Pay attention to this new iMac, the heart of Apple's "digital hub" idea, because what Steve Jobs does is often the shape of things to come. Talk with Josh about the new iMac and the future of Apple on Thursday...
Located halfway along Massachusetts Avenue between Harvard and Kendall Squares, Central Square has historically been a thriving commercial district like its neighboring squares, a bustling transport hub and the home of City Hall, Cambridge’s government headquarters...