Former Vice President Al Gore, who popularized the "information superhighway" as vice president, was elected Wednesday to the board of Apple Computer.
Gore in taking the post praised chief executive Steve Jobs and other Apple executives. Despite critically acclaimed products, though, Apple has only a 3 percent share of the US personal computer market, according to the research firm IDC.
Gore, who announced last fall he would not seek the presidency in 2004, also serves as a senior adviser to the search firm Google Inc and is a visiting professor at several universities. Gore fills a seat left vacant by the September resignation of Oracle Corp chief executive Larry Ellison.
"We're excited and honored that he has chosen Apple as his first private sector board to serve on," Jobs said.
IN other Apple news, slowing sales of Apple Computer's original iMac computer have led it to retire its wildly successful all-in-one computer with a futuristic appearance that reasserted the iconic computer maker's claim to design leadership.
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