iWeb Tech News Highlights, Jan. 16th

- Apple’s share of US PC market slips to 8% at hands of Acer. Acer saw a +31% growth in 2008, driven by sales of low prices netbooks, like the Acer Aspire One.
- 2009 might just be Linux’s year, with purchasers and consumers looking for cheaper software, due to the recession.
- 10 essential tricks for Linux admins, an IBM developerWorks article
- The US Airways air rescue, an incident at New York Yesterday, was presented as a great example for citizen journalism. A picture posted on Twitter was virally transmitted on the Internet, hours before the media could broadcast coverage of the crash
- YouTube is now accessible on the TV through the Wii and the PS3, with an interface optimized for television.
- For those who do Internet sales, web marketing, or design software, here is the case of an e-commerce company which saw a +$300 million increase in sales just by changing one button in its shopping cart.
- a new “security” and “audit” software uses a computer’s GPU to crack successfully Wi-Fi passwords, through advanced dictionary attacks.
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