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Parallels Desktop 6.0.12090.660720 released

Parallels Desktop, the popular virtualization application that allows users to run the Windows and Linux operating systems simultaneously alongside Mac OS X, reached version 6.0.12090.660720 on Thursday. The new version, available here, sports the following major fixes and changes: – Adds support for Ubuntu 11.04 virtual machines. – Improves mapping of Mac OS X system […]

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Microsoft looking to ARM processors, HTML5 for Windows 8 mobile strategy

There may be something to this whole HTML5 thing… Per AppleInsider, Microsoft has provided a look at how it plans to bring Windows to more mobile devices in the future, leveraging ARM processors and using HTML5 as the basis of a new app platform. As demonstrated at the D9 conference, Windows 8 will deliver a […]

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New “MAC Defender” malware variant surfaces, works way around recent security update

Only one day after Apple released a security update for Mac OS X to address the “MAC Defender” malware, a new variant of the bogus antivirus software has been spotted in the wild. Per ZDNet, the new variation of MAC Defender, named “Mdinstall.pkg,” has been crafted to bypass the new malware-blocking code made available by […]