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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apple’s iPad 2 is the best among the tablet computers on the market so far, Consumer Reports says. Second place went to Motorola’s Xoom, which Consumer Reports said tied with Apple’s original iPad. Tablets from ARCHOS, Dell, Samsung and ViewSonic were also rated. An analyst also pointed to Hewlett-Packard’s upcoming TouchPad, which runs on webOS. [...]
Rolling blackouts in eastern Japan will likely cause some supply issues A day after Japan’s biggest earthquake ever caused widespread destruction and as-yet uncounted deaths, Japan’s biggest electronics companies are trying to ensure that employees in disaster areas are safe and facilities remain intact. The threat of meltdowns at two nuclear power plants remains, while [...]
This week we plumb the depths of the second quarter of The Hacker Crackdown and learn about Secret Service tactics Hello and welcome back to the second installment in our weekend Geek Reads column! This week we were all a little busy in the office writing about Apple’s iPad 2 launch and the disaster relief efforts in Japan, [...]
SXSW Interactive has arrived as a major meeting place for the tech world Tech nerds wearing cowboy boots and western shirts with snap buttons. Waves and waves of Gen Y-ers from San Francisco. Skinny jeans. Chuck Taylors (old, worn). Tattoos. Vans. A sea of Macbooks. Just the outside edge of real Texas heat. Orange conference [...]