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MacsimumNews covers the Gartner report that the Apple has increased its market share in the US by 30 percent over first quarter results for last year. Apple now holds 5 percent of the US market with growth that outpaced its PC rivals. Possibly contributing to this, Dell has continued to lose market share. More …

Gartner researchers also state that Vista sales “scarcely made a dent in Apple’s marketshare during the first quarter of the year.

Mac, iPod sales, new products to dominate Apple’s March 25th report, according to Marketwatch. More …

SlashGear reports on a new UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer) design from Intel that Mark Parker, Chief Evangelist from Intel’s Mobility Group, revealed that it could “possibly” run Mac OS X. There is a Google Video of the touchscreen or stylus device in bootup, More …

USA version is now available. It had previously been removed due to reports of instability.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

What’s new in this version:

Various bugfixes, notably:

* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
* Mac OS X Interface crashes
* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
* Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
* Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers

Decoders:
* Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
* Teletext subtitles (telx) support

Webbrowser plugins:
* Rectified behaviour and improved usability

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Diverse usability improvements
* New wizard option to embed subtitles
* Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
* Improved Delete-Preferences-Script

Product Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

Apple released Security Update 2007-004 in Universal and PowerPC versions for Mac OS X 10.4.9 (including Server), along with separate versions for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.3.9 Server, is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:
AFP Client
AirPort
CarbonCore
diskdev_cmds
fetchmail
ftpd
gnutar
Help Viewer
HID Family
Installer
Kerberos
Libinfo
Login Window
and others