Apple on Tuesday patched Java for the aged OS X Snow Leopard and tweaked Safari to give users more control over what websites they let run the vulnerability plagued Oracle software. Oracle on Tuesday shipped an update for Java 6 and Java ...
The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said today. And with very few exceptions, customers don't have answers. The latest tidbit ...
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Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market, though it still lags behind Vista, according to the?March stats?from Net Applications. Windows 8 shipped in October 2012, ...
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The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the operating system much longer than some, including Microsoft, expect. ...
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Apple developers should pencil in June 10-14 as the dates for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), according to the current schedule at the San Francisco venue where Apple has held the confab for the last 10 years. The Moscone ...
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Apple quietly updated Safari on Snow Leopard last week, refreshing the browser to v. 5.1.8 and providing more proof that it intends to support OS X 10.6 much longer than usual. Computerworld - Apple last week silently updated the aged ...
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Apple yesterday updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues. Alongside the operating system update, Apple also upgraded the Safari browser to ...
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Apple yesterday gave its strongest signal yet that it will continue to support OS X Snow Leopard with patches for the foreseeable future rather than retire the still-active operating system. On Thursday, Apple shipped Security Update ...
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Last year, Apple surprised developers and analysts alike by debuting a preview of OS X Mountain Lion, then announcing it was shifting to an annual release schedule for its Mac operating system. That was Feb. 16, 2012, a year and three ...
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A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
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Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's ...
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Apple on Monday patched Java 6 for OS X, following Oracle's lead and quashing a browser plug-in vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting. Oracle issued the "out-of-band," or emergency, update for Java 6 and Java 7 to patch two ...
A Texas federal judge denied Apple's move to reduce last year's $368 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case it lost, and ordered the Cupertino, Calif., company to pay more than $363,000 daily in interest and damages until a ...
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The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a "drive-by" Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool. The Apple-issued "Java for Mac OS X v10.6 ...
c , which shipped in August 2009, continued to resist retirement last month, new data showed. January statistics from Web analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Snow Leopard's share of all Macs at 28.2%, half a point higher than the ...
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