Apple yesterday released Security Update 2006-004 (8.5MB) for Intel and PPC Macs that fixes 26 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. True to Apple’s style (and security policy) few details were released about the update: For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred, […]
Category: The Apple Core
A proposed amendment to the French law requiring Apple to open it’s DRM to competitors states that those being forced to open their DRM should receive compensation for doing so. The Dadvsi Law, as it’s called, has flipped-flopped on the legality of file sharing and fines for reverse-engineering DRM so many times that it’s doomed. […]
Readers of this blog will remember that I posted a note about a silent recall of MacBook Pro batteries back on May 3, 2006. After several reports of MacBook Pros suddenly shutting down – like mine did – Apple has finally come clean and admitted that there is a problem with their first batch of […]
While it’s admittedly unscientific I found it very amusing that a 10-year old Newton MessagePad 2000 beat a brand spankin’ new Samsung Q1 UMPC in a head-to-head battle over at CNet UK. You can read all of the details for yourself, but the main reason why the Newton MP2k kicked the Q1’s butt is battery […]
Tuesday’s announcement of Apple’s US$69 Wireless Mighty Mouse elicited a lot of excitement from the Mac faithful, but I am more of the opinion that it’s about time. One of the very first criticisms of the original Mighty Mouse when it debuted almost one year ago was the lack of a wireless option. The original […]