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German Minister Warns Against the Power of Internet Giants

German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has launched an attack on the Internet economy, warning that the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple store vast amounts of personal information on Web users that can be used for financial gain, and can hurt people's chances of getting jobs or bank loans.

Hello, everyone! Hello to all the Mac (Apple computer) users in Doha and the whole of Qatar! =)

Wouldn't it be great to meet fellow Mac users?! ;)

I would like to propose a Mac Users Meet for all the people of Qatar - regardless of religion, race, color, walk of life, etc. As long as you are a Mac user... But this will not materialize if we don't hear from others, right? Please share your opinions and proposed date/time for this plan. And hopefully, we can make the Mac users community in Qatar bigger and a better one, just like our choice of computer and operating system.

And to make this more fun, tag along your iPhone and iPod user friends and other Mac enthusiasts (even PC Windows users)! =D

I love Mac! ;)

Macky/macky2green
mobile: 652-2069

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Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

The worm changes the wallpaper of the phone
The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia.

The self-propagating program changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up".

The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.

Experts say the worm is not harmful but more malicious variants could follow.

"The creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm," wrote Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-secure.

For all the Apple (especially Mac) lovers out there!...

Apple just released their latest line of Macs for us.

The latest iMac is also the biggest at 27" and with a very powerful processor! The MacBook is redesigned! The Mac mini is more powerful than ever! And the Magic Mouse (the sexiest mouse in the universe) has replaced the former Mighty Mouse!

I want all of them! ;)

Check them out at http://www.apple.com =) Cheers!

Sabeer Bhatia (सबीर भाटिया) (born December 30, 1968) is the co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur.

After a brief stint at Apple, Sabeer joined a startup company called Firepower Systems Inc, where he spent two years. In 1994, Sabeer started working on new ideas for the Internet and he teamed up with Jack Smith, a colleague from Apple Computer, Inc.