The folks at  Cult of Mac were sent an interesting email:

Hi,
The reason am writing to you is that your book is among first to
sell in amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/steve-jobs-Books/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Steve%20Jobs&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3ASteve%20Jobs&page=1

I will try to be as short as possible:

2 years ago, I set a amazon.com fake page, and sent emails to different IT people around the globe. Among some other unknown person, Steve Jobs got my mail, he didn’t notice the scam I set so he “updated” his amazon account with data( name, address, credit card number, phone, amazon user and password) which I received, sent to my mail.

Now, it was not my intention to misuse his account (which is still untouched!), the sole purpose was if the “scam” was so perfect that even IT Guru’s will fall on it.

I saw you are the bestseller with a book on S.Jobs, I still have access on his amazon.com account, with all his purchase/interest details for 6-7 years. Now I just checked again, and he didn’t use it since December 22 last year, for reasons known to us.

I intent to sell this information, that’s why I picked you as first on the list.

If you are not interested, am sure other book authors on SJ life (Jeffrey Young, William Simon, Alan Deutschman, Anthony Imbimbo, Daniel Lyons or any others) will be very interested to know about this.

Hope to hear from you,

Regards

p.s. I can provide “print screens” logged in SJ amazon account.

You can read the full post on how this email spear-phishing-for-whales-ploy is playing out here.

Turns out it was the process. Go figure. You can see the video here. Apple also refreshed the laptop lineup providing more power under the hood. There is a new look to the Macbook bringing it in line with the rest of the products (everything looks like the iPhone).  Also an update to the monitors. The whole product lineup is looking sharp.  

Wondering how to get up to speed on all those Mac-centric nuances. No need to fear. Visit My First Mac. A great site with a ton of webcasts for the uninitiated user. Everyone loves a good webcast. Also of interest for new users is  TUAW’s Mac 101. This series even has some great insights for the more seasoned user.

I only provide the link and discuss it briefly because in my former life I was an IP lawyer. But how about the cojones on these guys?

“We’re alleging restraint of trade, among other things,” said Colby Springer, one of three lawyers from the firm of Carr & Ferrell LLP representing Psystar, in a press conference held at the law firm’s Palo Alto, Calif. offices today. “We’re going to let the court decide.” 

Mobile Me is giving current subscribers another 60 days free. From Apple,

We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are working very hard to make MobileMe a great service we can all be proud of.  

I  presume this is in response to all the grumbling regarding the additional email outages that users experienced. However, even old-reliable-gmail users were stung last week. I am waiting for some positive reviews before I can place my firms calendaring data in Mobile Me. I am still testing address book and push, with the iPhone.