New and Noteworthy: Apple 'will not participate' in Boston Macworld; Diversity with Macs helps prevent worms; more

Apple 'will not participate' in Boston Macworld The Register reports "Macworld Expo organizer IDG World Expo has confirmed its decision to site next summer's show in Boston rather than New York, the event's home for the past few years. The announcement came this past Friday, just ahead of the self-imposed 1 September deadline revealed by company chief David Korse in August. Apple was quick to confirm its own decision not to attend the show if it moved away from the Big Apple." More.

Diversity with Macs helps prevent worms A Boston Globe article makes note of Macs' veritable immunity to widespread worms. "Computer administrators spent much of August fending off a series of computer worms that infect only machines embedded with the DNA of Bill Gates. Meanwhile, Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintoshes are immune, as are Unix and Linux boxes." More.

When Is 54 Not Equal to 54? A Look at 802.11a, b, and g Throughput Matthew Gast describes the actual throughput of devices using the 802.11g standard (including Apple's AirPort), which is often much lower than the advertised rate "According to the model, 802.11g is significantly faster than 802.11b. In a network consisting only of 802.11g clients, it is even slightly faster than 802.11a. However, "protection" mechanisms added to 802.11g to ensure backwards compatibility with legacy 802.11b clients can cut the throughput by 50 percent or more." More.

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