Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Apple has purchased chip designer P.A. Semi for $278 million in cash, according to Forbes. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm is a self-described fabless semiconductor firm that delivers processors for the high-performance embedded-computing market. The company specializes in low-power chips that could be useful in Apple's iPhone and iPod devices. The deal could come as a setback for Intel, which has its own low-power chip, Atom, for mobile devices.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Apple issued four security updates Thursday for its Web browser Safari, one of which patches the highly publicized -- yet secret -- hole that let security expert Charlie Miller burrow his way into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference last month. The vulnerability was immediately disclosed to Apple from the conference, but today is the first time it's been widely identified.
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Sunday - March 23, 2008
Just as those living in shiny houses of self-righteous glass often end up surrounded by shards of their former sanctimony, so Apple now finds itself the increasingly appealing target of software hackers. For years, Apple's marketing has consisted of accentuating the positive and ignoring everything else.
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Friday - March 21, 2008
It may be some time before any Apple news rivals the iPhone software development kit or the MacBook Air, but it's nonetheless been a busy week for Apple-focused bloggers. Apple updated its Airport Express WiFi mini router to the faster 802.11n standard, delivered a new version of Safari, fixed dozens of security weaknesses, and saw Mac sales shoot through the roof in February.
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
Apple has issued a major security update for Mac OS X and Safari. The update addresses 86 common vulnerability and exposure CVE entries in 30 applications for Mac OS. Among the components addressed by the update are vulnerabilities in the Printing and Preview components, which could allow encrypted PDF files to be viewed without authentication.
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Tuesday - February 19, 2008
As I look at a newly arrived MacBook Air laptop, it occurs to me there has never been a better time to switch to a Mac. That's not something I say lightly. With the exception of a couple of years working at a magazine, I have never been a Mac user. After all, I'm a game player and games on the Mac are always light years behind games on Windows.
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Tuesday - February 12, 2008
Apple released its first security update for 2008 late Monday, correcting vulnerabilities in OS X Leopard and Tiger. Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Security Update 2008-001 correct 11 flaws in applications such as Time Machine, Parental Control, Mail and Safari. Also included is a patch for a directory services vulnerability that was listed in the "Month of Apple Bugs" project, released in January 2007.
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Tuesday - February 5, 2008
Mac users beware -- the bad guys have you in their malware crosshairs. Organized criminal gangs arrived at Apple's doorstep for the first time in 2007 with malware tools in hand to intentionally steal money, according to a recent report from IT security and control firm Sophos.
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Thursday - December 20, 2007
Strong growth in mobile advertising and a "major iPhone security incident" are among the predictions a wireless consulting firm is making for 2008. Google and the upcoming FCC auction of wireless spectrum will also alter the mobile landscape in 2008, predicts
inCode. The firm -- which has been part of VeriSign since 2006 -- has been making annual wireless industry predictions since 2003.
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Tuesday - December 18, 2007
Apple's patchy year continued Monday as the Mac maker released fixes for some 40 Mac OS X glitches in its ninth security update. In a separate release, Apple also put out an update to plug a flaw in the beta version of its Safari 3 Web browser running on Windows Vista and XP. The company also dealt with 18 other Java-related vulnerabilities in addition to its ongoing QuickTime flaw, with patches released last Thursday.
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Thursday - November 15, 2007
Apple released an update to top all updates Wednesday. Included in the massive bundle -- aimed primarily at users of Apple's Tiger operating system -- is the just-out-of-beta Safari 3 as well as about 44 fixes for a spate of security flaws. The software maker's latest batch of updates and security fixes in its combo update weigh in at a whopping 321.5 MB.
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