While java hacks are an almost weekly occurrence,a zero-day exploit discovered yesterday looks set to become unusually disruptive,as Oracle has so far offered no solution,and experts are recommending users turn off Java off unless ...
Tags: Java exploit, attacks escalate, Oracle, Java 7
IDG News Service - Apple's top hardware engineer, Bob Mansfield, is not leaving the company after all and will stay to work on future products, Apple announced Monday. Apple said in June that Mansfield, its senior vice president of ...
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UK - A BlackBox BBR64-MADI Recorder was used by award-winning engineer Donal Hodgson to capture Sting's recent Henley Festival show. Hodgson, who has recorded and mixed Sting for over a decade said, "I have been using Pro Tools in the ...
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Computerworld - today announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) targeted at users who want to upgrade older computer systems with a flash drive that boasts a price well under $1 per gigabyte of capacity. Crucial's new v4 SSD, which is ...
Tags: Crucial, Laptops, flash-drive speeds
SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Researchers have confirmed the existence of new Mac malware just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system. Within hours, researchers at security company Sophos also confirmed an iOS ...
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WinMagic-sponsored study examined Total Cost of Ownership for full disk encryption for businesses around the world. MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 25, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- WinMagic Inc., the global innovator in full disk encryption, along ...
Apple giveth,and Apple taketh away.As it released Mountain Lion through the Mac App Store Wednesday,the company simultaneously removed Lion from the store:You cant find Lion if you search for it,its no longer listed as one of Apples apps in ...
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To simplify life for developers,platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has released a version of the open-source Postgres database designed to be easily run on Apple Macintosh computers. While the Postgres project itself maintains a ...
Tags: Heroku, Mac Postgres, platform-as-a-service provider, Soldo
A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac computers, according to security researchers from antivirus vendors F-Secure and Kaspersky Lab. The ...
Tags: Desktop Apps, US, engineering attack, electronic technology
Autodesk debuted a range of new AutoCAD products built for Mac OS X Lion:AutoCAD 2012 for Mac,AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac.This marks the first time Autodesk has offered AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD WS for the Mac. The new ...
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Computerworld-Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25 if it repeats what it did last year when it announced the then-new Lion a day after its quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts. Monday,Apple scheduled its next earnings ...
Tags: OS X, Mountain Lion, OS X 10.7, OS X Snow Leopard
Apple is running servers from IBM and Oracle with flavors of the Unix operating system at its Maiden, N.C. data center, according to a job entry posted on the company's website. Apple is looking for a Solaris systems engineer with five ...
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Autodesk is now shipping Autodesk Smoke 2012 for Mac OS X and Autodesk Flame Premium 2012. Autodesk Flame Premium 2012 is the company's production-proven creative 3D visual effects and finishing software.Introduced in late 2010,Flame ...