New and Noteworthy: MIT declines Mac OS X for US0 laptop; Apple may use Hynix flash memory in iPods; more

MIT declines Mac OS X for US$100 laptop Students and faculty working toward production of a viable US$100 laptop have reportedly turned down an offer to use Mac OS X, for free, on the hypothetical machines. The Wall Street Journal reports "Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.'s chief executive, offered to provide free copies of the company's operating system, OS X, for the machine, according to Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the initiative's founders. "We declined because it's not open source," says Dr. Papert, noting the designers want an operating system that can be tinkered with. An Apple spokesman declined to comment." More.

Apple may use Hynix flash memory in iPods DigiTimes reports that Apple may shift some of its flash memory orders away from Samsung and Toshiba to Hynix in the coming months. "In order to fulfill strong iPod related demand, Apple has started asking Hynix Semiconductor to offer quotations for low-density NAND flash, amid a significant upcoming capacity ramp at the South Korea-based memory maker." More.

Analysts predict strong holiday iPod sales Playlist Magazine polls industry analysts who, for the most part, think that Apple will have another stellar holiday selling season thanks to the iPod. "It will be another strong holiday season for the iPod," Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at NPD Techworld, told Playlist. "Apple has its best lineup yet and several strong competitors, notably HP and Rio, have dropped out from a year ago. We'll continue to see accelerating growth this holiday season compared with last year as there's still a lot of greenfield in this market. The iPod with video may also entice owners of earlier hard drive-based models to upgrade as well." More.

Apple tapped to help boost Canada's supercomputer power ITWorld reports that Apple is among the vendors supporting Canadian efforts to boost the nation's supercomputer muscle. "C3.ca says more than $250 million has been invested or committed to high-performance computing in Canada over the past five years, by the federal government, the provinces, universities and its industry members. C3.ca also receives funding and technical support from seven HPC industry vendors ? Apple Canada, Cray, Hewlett-Packard (Canada), IBM, NEC Solutions, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems of Canada." More.

AOL to launch online television Time Warner's AOL said on Monday it planned to launch a free Internet television service by early 2006, in one of the technology and media industry?s most ambitious designs to reach TV viewers online. "The advertising-supported service, In2TV, will feature approximately 3,400 hours of programing from 4,800 episodes spanning 100 series of Warner Bros.-produced shows from the past in its first year in an exclusive deal. They include past prime time hits 'Welcome Back Kotter,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Kung Fu' organized under six channels divided by comedy, drama, animation, action, classic and superhero/villain genres. Two more may launch in 2006." More.

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