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Update: I’ve captured a video that shows the File Quarantine feature successfully blocking an attempt to automatically install the Mac Guard malware. See below. After a month-long Mac Defender/Mac Guard malware attack, Apple has finally released the security update it promised last week. The update takes Apple one step closer to turning an obscure security feature into [...]
Mac malware has made the leap to Facebook and is now spreading virally, claiming to be a video of IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Security firm Sophos has the details: The fake anti-virus attack first appears in your timeline as a message apparently posted by one of your friends. In case you’ve been out of the loop, [...]
Need to tweak that presentation before the all important meeting but only have your iPhone in your pocket? No problem. Just download the Keynote App for iOS from iTunes for $9.99 (or free for exisiting iWork or iPad customers) and get working. The app version of Pages and Numbers were also launched today. By incorporating [...]
Sports fans are entering the high point of the year, with hockey and basketball playoffs sharing airtime with baseball, and the start of the National Football League draft on Thursday night. But for those who are finally enjoying some spring weather outside, mobile apps may be the best way to track all the action. Baseball’s [...]
Ubuntu 11.04 has been out for a few days now and while, generally speaking, I likeUbuntu’s new Unity interface, I know some people really dislike it. So, who better to explain why Unity looks and works the way it does than Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical? Shuttleworth opened by saying that [...]
If the Royal Wedding hasn’t yet made you aware of just how mundane wedding photos can be, June is coming soon with fresh opportunities for clichéd group shots (“Smile! Smile, everybody! Smile!”) Denis Reggie, a wedding photographer, takes a different approach, with outstanding results. Over his 30-year career, his unobtrusive style, which he calls “wedding photojournalism,” [...]
What is apparently the next version of Android Music 3.0 is being passed around the Web today, after the software was obtained by a tech-reviews site. A screen shot of leaked app apparently from Google that shows streaming and cache functions. (Credit: Screen shot Sarah Tew) Techfrom10.com posted a note saying that it had acquired [...]
The Nasdaq stock exchange will cut the weighting it gives to Apple on a key index at the same time that it boosts the weighting for tech titans including Microsoft and Cisco Systems. In a major rebalancing of the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, which will go into effect ahead of the market open on [...]
Online music provider Pandora Media disclosed in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission today that it has received a subpoena related to a federal grand jury investigation about sharing customer information in its smartphone app. The company, which filed for an initial public offering with the SEC earlier this year, added the [...]
Texas Instruments plans to purchase fellow analog chipmaker National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion, the companies announced today. TI is paying cash for National Semi. Stockholders will get $25 per share, an $11 per share premium over the $14.07 National Semi shares closed at today. Both boards have already approved the deal. There is a “break-up [...]