Leopard, Tiger security boosted

Apple today released 11 security updates for Mac OS X, with many of the updates specific to the newly-released Leopard operating system, says News.com.

The Security Update 2008-001 is the first from Apple for 2008. The applications affected include Time Machine, Mail, and Parental Controls. The update can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.

This patch affects users of Mac OS X v10.4.11 and Mac OS X Server v10.4.11 and addresses the vulnerability in CVE-2007-0355.

T-Mobile started building out WiFi hotspots at Starbucks six years ago, well before the mass market really knew what a wireless Web connection could do, and before most laptops and handheld devices could take advantage, says Chicago Tribune.

Now that WiFi is available practically everywhere, and is often free, T-Mobile's biggest WiFi ally has a new partner, AT&T.

This is good news for WiFi consumers as the prices to get online at Starbucks will drop sharply. But it's a bad omen for T-Mobile, America's most innovative wireless carrier.

E-mail and Internet service to the BlackBerry mobile telephone, in North America, stopped working overnight, according to US telecommunications giant AT&T, says News.com.

Canada-based Research In Motion, maker of ubiquitous BlackBerry mobile devices that combine telephone, e-mail and Internet capabilities, notified AT&T overnight of a major disruption of service.

The problem affected carriers in North America, said AT&T wireless division spokesman Mark Siegel.

Microsoft has taken another step toward its goal of developing a mobile device that can handle everything consumers need - whether they are at work or play. The software behemoth bought Danger, a Palo Alto company best known for creating the technology behind T-Mobile's chic Sidekick smartphones, reports The Mercury.

The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal, which comes only weeks after Danger filed plans in December to go public.

"From the beginning we have talked about one phone for life," said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager for Microsoft's mobile communications business. "No longer do we have the Wild West of mobile phones," where consumers have to carry a holster loaded with everything from a cellphone to a music player.