Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Apple Computer has issued a fix for a problem afflicting some MacBook owners since July which caused their computers to randomly shutdown. However, some users remain skeptical that the firmware update will solve what they believe is essentially a hardware problem.
According to Apple's advisory, the MacBook SMC
Firmware Update 1.1 The SMC Update improves the MacBook’s internal
monitoring system and addresses issues with unexpected shutdowns. The
advisory also states that the update is recommended for all MacBook
systems, including those that received warranty repair.
While Apple claims that the shutdown problem only affects a small
percentage of MacBooks, the number of affected users has been large
enough to cause some users in August to launch a website devoted to the
issue called Macbookrandomshutdown.com. There have also been reports of
some users trying organize a class action against Apple because of long
waits after returning their machines to service the problem.
The fix issued by Apple has been welcomed by some MacBook users but met
with skepticism by others who claim that issue is hardware problem
caused by internal overheating causing a short in the system. Users
have reported repaired MacBooks being returned with new heat sinks and
lgic boards. According to some techs, however, the hardware issues can
be addressed by improved firmware monitoring of the processor to
regulate overheating.
A visit to the homepage of Macbookrandomshutdown.com will reveal that
at least one affected user has found that Apple's firmware fix for the
random shut down problem appears to work.
David Bass
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