# In This Issue

- Mobile World Congress is gonna be a quiet one thanks to coronavirus fears

- Taika Waititi lets the world know what Apple’s laptop keyboards are crap

- Random news because it’s a slow day

- corp.com is for sale and its owner hopes Microsoft buys it instead of cybercrims

- Cheap Samsung Endurance microSD & Woolworths Mobile 12m SIM

# News

#### Mobile World Congress is gonna be a quiet one thanks to coronavirus fears

Sony, Amazon, LG, Ericsson, NTT Docomo and Nvidia have decided to pull out of exhibiting or sending staff to Mobile World Congress 2020 over in Barcelona due to the coronavirus. It's usually where all the big smartphone and mobile network related announcements take place, but this year it'll likely be very quiet as not only are those big companies not attending, but lots of people from China (where a big chunk of smartphone activity takes place) won't be able to enter Spain unless they've spent 14 days or more out of China. MWC 2020 is supposed to kick off on the 24th of Feb, so it wouldn't surprise me if more vendors decide it's not worth the risk to attend this year.

#### Taika Waititi lets the world know what Apple’s laptop keyboards are crap

Taika Waititi won an Oscar and after you win an Oscar you're ushered to a room of journalists that pepper you with questions. One question was what would you like Writer's Guild (union for people who write for TV shows and movies and shit) to argue for in its upcoming negotiations with producers and Taika responded with a mini-rant about Apple's shit keyboards. It's been fixed on the 16" MBP, but every other laptop is still a turd. I hope more celebrities start whinging about Apple products so Apple pays attention. One celebrity complaint is like 10,000 regular person complaints.

#### Random news because it’s a slow day

- Xerox is still trying to buy the consumer division of HP, with their current offer valuing the printer & PC company at US$35b.

- Amazon wants to depose Donald Trump for his role in giving Microsoft the lucrative US$10b Pentagon cloud contract. Good luck with that.

- IBM has chosen Slack over Microsoft’s Teams for all 350,000 of its employees, sending Slack stock wild until Slack said that IBM was already a customer and they won't be selling 350,000 new licenses.

- Facebook, YouTube and other social media companies have told Clearview AI to stop scraping their platforms to match people's faces with CCTV footage.

# Not News

#### corp.com is for sale and its owner hopes Microsoft buys it instead of cybercrims

The domain name corp.com is up for sale by its owner Mike O'Connor and normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but corp.com is a weird one as it was used as the default domain name in early Active Directory setups. There's loads of businesses out there that still use corp.com as their domain internally despite not owning the domain. If someone nefarious purchased corp.com (asking price is US$1.7m), they could have access to all these poorly configured networks and inhert a massive botnet. Mike hopes Microsoft buys it and saves poorly configured Active Directory setups from hurting themselves.

# Bargains

- Samsung PRO Endurance microSD 32GB - $15 from Amazon AU

- 84GB of data & unlimited calls for 365 days - $150 from Woolworths Mobile (Telstra MVNO like Aldi, but not as deep as boost)

- That’s it. The only thing worth buying today is a 32GB microSD card or a 12m Woolworths SIM.

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