Who says MACS can't get viruses! Thanks to a well-documented flaw that Apple didn't patch for three months, a nasty piece of malware called Mac Flashback and BackDoor.Flashback.39 seems to have infected nearly 600,000 Macs worldwide! "Systems get infected with BackDoor.Flashback.39 after a user is redirected to a bogus site from a compromised resource or via a traffic distribution system,” the company said in a press release. “JavaScript code is used to load a Java-applet containing an exploit. Doctor Web's virus analysts discovered a large number of web-sites containing the code.”
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has commended two national telephone companies – AT&T and Verizon - for implementing measures to prevent cramming. Madigan hailed the actions as she pushes for complete bans on the practice in Illinois and nationwide.
Apple has begun rejecting apps that access unique identification numbers (UDIDs) that are unique to every iPhone and iPad. The move comes as the issue of apps that gather address book and location info comes under extra scrutiny from government and media.
These overhead photos of Maiden, North Carolina, data center — captured last month — show Apple’s $1 billion data center and two adjacent areas where Apple has started new construction. 
Apple’s mobile devices apparently have been taking a bite out of the larger PC market, but they’re also eating up some of Apple’s own computer market share, a new web traffic study suggests.
One of Google's own, 
Could they hack your neighborhood? A Redmond, Ore., man who marketed a "Coax Thief" program has been convicted of seven counts of wire fraud by a federal jury in Boston.
ing the encryption of the basic cable tier. During the early nineties, a rule was adopted by the FCC to make sure cable companies kept a portion of the broadcast stations completely unencrypted. Commonly known as “basic cable” by the public, these stations can be accessed without the need of a set-top box. This is useful for households that have multiple televisions and don’t want to pay an addition $5 to $15 for each set-top box. It’s also used by many public institutions, like schools, as well as consumers that receive poor over-the-air reception through an antenna.
As mobile phones have become a universal accessory of modern life, concerned researchers look for possible harmful health effects. There is already a growing body of study on cell phones' potential impact on 
ous models, quadrupling the resolution of the tablet’s screen to an ultra-sharp 
After more than a year of foot-dragging, 
You can share your good taste in music before your guests even enter the front door with the MP3 DJ Doorbell. Setup is simple: The push-button doorbell can be attached near your front door with the included double-sided adhesive. The doorbell’s speakers, which have a slot for an SD card, can be attached to a wall or placed on a shelf inside your living room up to 165 feet away from the doorbell. When someone presses the doorbell, it sends a wireless signal to the speaker, which then plays music stored on a memory card. Priced at about $50, the MP3 DJ Doorbell from Swann includes MP3 editing software.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (
The court order includes a $20 million judgment against Paul Navestad, which is the largest civil penalty against a defendant in an FTC case, and a $10 million judgment against Christine Maspakorn. The $30 million in total fines is, by far, the largest penalty ever imposed for unlawful calls to consumers on the Do-Not-Call Registry.
In 2012, Firefox will deliver incredible user and developer experiences in four areas.
With our increasing addiction to our mobile phones, have we created a monster that we are less and less able to control? CNN) -- As always, 
Build a better mousetrap and ... what? The world beats a pathway to your door? Maybe that was true once but what generally happens today is that Microsoft and Google duplicate your mousetrap, slap their logo on it and leave you wondering where all the mice and cheese went.
The attorneys general of 36 states are challenging 
In its relatively short lifespan, Google has turned into a real-life Zardoz, the all-knowing stone head that dominates a post-apocalyptic Earth in the 1974 science fiction film of the same name. But unlike the openly malevolent Zardoz, Google cloaks itself in a do-no-evil mantle.
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“Every major company in the United States has already been penetrated by China. My greatest fear is that, rather than having a cyber-Pearl Harbor event, we will instead have this death of a thousand cuts. Where we lose our competitiveness by having all of our research and development stolen by the Chinese. And we never really see the single event that makes us do something about it. That it’s always just below our pain threshold. That company after company in the United States spends millions, hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of dollars on R&D and that information goes free to China….After a while you can’t compete.”
FTC warns Apple, Android app developers and stores to "wake up", as a study by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) finds that online app stores are providing almost no information about what information is gathered from children, how it is used, who has access to it and what steps parents can take to keep their children safe.
The smartphones in our pockets are far more powerful than the desktop computers we dreamed of in the 1980s. This year they are outselling PCs – and soon they could replace our wallets as well
FORGET the Union — what’s the state of the BlackBerry?
Suit alleged McAfee tricked customers into buying "PerfectSpeed". A federal judge refused to approve a proposed settlement to a 
While browser use is a product of many factors, Microsoft is taking on its competitor directly on another front: marketing. In recent years, Google has put a lot of marketing muscle behind Chrome, including web campaigns such as The Web Is What You Make Of It, with spots from 
Xbox 360 maker acknowledges "surge of personal information being compromised and sold," suggests changing passwords and not putting info on social networks. Microsoft is once again addressing the issue of stolen Xbox Live accounts, and while the company is still insisting security for the online gaming service hasn't been compromised, it is at least acknowledging the problem more directly. Identity theft on Xbox Live means more than just a copied avatar.
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint may get all the attention, but OneNote has quickly become the gem of the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft is now extending the reach of OneNote with an app for Android smartphones and tablets.
Being honest doesn't mean people won't snoop either. Even though about half of the finders made some attempt to return the lost phone (a contact e-mail and phone number for the "owner" was listed in the contacts app on each decoy phone), the vast majority of these people also tried to access data on the phone.
San Francisco: Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is hosting a media event next Wednesday, where it is expected to unveil a faster, better-equipped version of its popular iPad tablet to thwart increasing competition from deep-pocketed rivals such as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O).
Nikon is the latest big-name camera maker to offer a mirrorless interchangeable-lens lineup. Here's how the new Nikon 1 J1 camera held up in our hands-on tests.
E-books aren't just becoming increasingly popular. They also appear to be promoting reading habits among American adults.
Pinterest's traffic jumped 50% between January and February. The report calls the site "the hottest social media start-up since Facebook and YouTube."
Microsoft is staging a comeback -- and, unlikely as this sounds, it's one Apple and Google should be worried about.
The lawsuits charge the companies have placed unauthorized charges on thousands of consumers’ telephone bills for products and services they did not purchase, want, or use.
Great deals on smartphones are not always what they appear to be. Most smartphones that are “on sale” for less than $100 will end up costing you thousands over the course of a required two-year contract. Of course, you can buy a smartphone without a contract, but end up paying several hundred dollars for a device that could be outdated by the time you leave the store. Neither of these options are great for the pocketbook.
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German scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have created the first “universal quantum network” that could be feasibly scaled up to become a quantum internet. So far their quantum network only spans two labs spaced 21 meters apart, but the scientists stress that longer distances and multiple nodes are possible.
An eight-year-old with an iPad might not seem like a dangerous thing. After all, who would think a “free” game downloaded from iTunes, or any other reputable site, would not actually be free?
Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Candidate -- the early release of its new operating system that succeeds the beta version and precedes its commercial release -- might be released sooner than originally thought, but it may be holding back the release of Internet Explorer 10.
Windows 8 is on track to be finished this summer and launched "around October," according to 
Android tablet makers have been chasing the leader of the tablet pack, the iPad, for two years. New numbers that have been recently been collected show that the Amazon Kindle Fire is already taking over the Android tablet space. Samsung and friends better be fearing the Kindle Fire, not the iPad.
According to the new numbers from Flurry, the Kindle Fire has already dominated the Android tablet space, and not by a small margin. Tablet statistics are often questioned, as they usually track unit shipments and not sales. Flurry’s numbers avoid that by tracking end user application sessions over time. These are strictly measuring what device is being used for actual user sessions, so the statistics are useful when comparing devices...
Smartphones and mobile applications entertain, inform and keep us connected in ways we could not even fathom just a few years ago. There is a trade-off, however, as many of these new conveniences require us to share personal information with cell phone companies or app developers.