Several months after its first sighting in the Philippines, the Cabir worm that infects mobile phones running Symbian OS with the Series 60 user interface has turned up in the U.S. More at ComputerWorld…
Day: February 22, 2005
Apple this morning announced a new 6GB iPod mini at the same price (US$249) as the previous 4GB model and a 30GB iPod Photo that retails for US$349. Curiously, Apple bagged the gold colored iPod mini and reduced the line to four colors (pink, green, blue and silver) but they added color-coordinated icons on the […]
The Mid-Atlantic Apple & Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs) will become The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam). The mission continues to be offering support to even more of those organizations that both want and need the assistance; however, the organization now includes developers, vendors, manufacturers, resellers and Apple retailers as well to help build more of […]
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Tip: PowerBook Brightness Flickering Fix
Radio Baily has posted a fix for the PowerBook/10.3.8 screen brightness bug: One of the nicest features of the 15″ Aluminum PowerBooks (and some of its siblings) is their ambient light sensors. Situated under each speaker grille, these allow the ‘Book to tell how bright its environment is and adjust the screen brightness (and backlit […]
Edward Vielmetti claims to have telephoned a colleague on a commercial flight using in-flight WiFi Internet access and free Internet telephony service Skype. I spoke with Valdis Krebs this afternoon who was high over the Atlantic flying SAS on his way home from eastern Europe. He was talking to me using Skype, and not paying […]