Friday - May 22, 2009
Apple aficionados turned their attention this week back to a rumored Apple iPod touch-like tablet device. Chatter about such a gadget has risen and fallen several times over the past few months, so what put it back on the front burner? It seems a recent Piper Jaffray report suggests Apple is working with suppliers to deliver such a large-screen touch tablet sometime in the first half of 2010. Meanwhile, netbooks continue to be all the rage on the PC side of the fence, though Mac netbook rumors have appeared to die down lately.
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Friday - March 27, 2009
It's been a relatively quiet week for the Apple-focused blogosphere. Apple did announce the dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference, which is set for June 8-12 in San Francisco. WWDC just so happens to the be the venue in which Apple is widely expected to release its next version of Mac OS X -- "Snow Leopard" -- which may be prettier than expected.
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Friday - January 23, 2009
Mac security firm Intego sounded the alarm Thursday on a trojan horse it spotted hiding in pirated copies of Apple's iWork '09. Since then, several more security solution providers have responded. On the surface, the trojan -- OSX.Trojan.iServices.A -- might seem relatively benign. After all, only those who stole a copy of iWork '09 can get it.
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Wednesday - January 21, 2009
Every marketing tactic gets more scrutiny when budgets face the severity of a struggling economy. Marketers are increasingly responding to the accountability found in digital marketing, placing their budget toward efforts that they can clearly measure against. Put SEO under this microscope, and it consistently delivers.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
With all the free online Web building and design tools, a lot of time-strapped business owners might think that with a few strategic drags and drops into templates, they're good to go. While that might get you online in a matter of hours, if you haven't paid close attention to a few design basics, that site could do more damage than not having a Web site at all.
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Friday - December 5, 2008
The biggest news in the Apple-focused blogosphere this week is the rumor that retail powerhouse Wal-Mart might be prepping to sell a $99 iPhone -- that's right, an iPhone for less than 100 bucks. In other hot news, Apple's been flirting with virus-checking recommendations, and finally, after weeks of delay, Apple is almost shipping its new in-ear headphones.
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Thursday - December 4, 2008
When it comes to setting up your Web presence, entrepreneurs are surprisingly lax. Depending on who you talk to, about half of small businesses do not have a Web site. Most of those will tell you that it's just too complicated, time-consuming and expensive a job to take on.
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Thursday - June 26, 2008
A Trojan targeting Mac computers in the wild used to be a rarity, but this type of malware is now turning up with alarming frequency. The latest Trojan is rudimentary, at best, although when coupled with a Mac platform vulnerability that came to light earlier this week, it could deliver an extra wallop. The Trojan is masquerading as a program for Mac OS X called "PokerGame."
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Friday - June 20, 2008
With the rise in popularity of Apple's Mac computers and the OS X operating systems they run, dangerous malware, viruses and Trojans are now being targeted for the Mac, too. The most recent case in point comes courtesy of a security advisory released by SecureMac. The advisory warns that multiple variants of a new Trojan horse -- out in the wild -- is ready to run roughshod all over OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
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Tuesday - June 3, 2008
A flaw in Apple's Safari Web browser has caught the attention of Microsoft's security team. The software maker has released an advisory for Windows XP and Windows Vista users running Safari informing them that Microsoft has begun investigating a vulnerability discovered two weeks earlier by Nitesh Dhanjani, a security researcher.
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