Best Buy Gadget Kiosks Land at Airports (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - You've been there -- late for a business flight, you forget your cell phone charger. Or, with a six-hour family vacation flight staring you in the face, the kids need something to keep them busy. You can relax: Chargers, Sony PSPs and even digital cameras will now be easily available in 12 U.S. airport terminals, courtesy of Best Buy.

Big Brother Alert: Government airport searches of iPods for pirated media in the works

Well, I didn’t think it was possible, but government officials may have found a way to slow down the airport screening process even further. According to NEWS.com.au, legislation is actively being looked at in Australia and other countries (including the US) that would allow for officials to inspect laptops and iPods at airport customs and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Big Brother Alert: Government airport searches of iPods for pirated media in the works", url: "http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1534" });

Study says more than 10,000 laptops go missing at US airports each week

As we've seen, laptops have a tendency of getting stolen from even the most unsuspecting places, but a new study has now found one not entirely surprising place where your laptop is particularly unsafe: the airport. According to the Ponemon Institute, more than 10,000 laptops are reported lost at the 36 largest airports in the US each week and, of those, 65 percent are not reclaimed. They also reported a further 2,000 laptops lost at medium-sized airports, with 69 percent of those not reclaimed. According to the institute, folks also aren't very confident that they'll ever see their laptop again once it goes missing, with 77 percent of the people surveyed saying they had "no hope" of ever recovering a laptop lost at the airport, and 16 percent saying they wouldn't even do anything to attempt to recover it. Of course, there's no shortage of suggestions out there for preventing your laptop from getting lost or stolen, and Network World's Richard Stiennon has a couple of good ones at the link below. [Via Network World] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n) Firmware 7.3.2

Along with the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update tonight, Apple also released firmware 7.3.2 for Time Capsules and AirPort Base Stations. Apple states that it "includes general fixes and compatibility updates" for both Time Capsule and AirPorts with 802.11n. Most likely your AirPort (or Time Capsule) will find and download the update automatically; however, you can also visit the Apple Support Downloads page to download the installer package for Leopard, Tiger, or Windows. Thanks to everyone who sent this in!Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

See more AirPort Extreme Base Station radio modes

If you’re using an AirPort Extreme Base Station on a network without 802.11n-capable machines, you can use a hidden feature in AirPort Utility to set a non-802.11n radio mode.

Review: AirPort Express

If you don’t need the features unique to Apple’s AirPort Extreme Base Station, the new Express is an affordable and portable alternative with advantages of its own, although it doesn’t match the Extreme’s performance.