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New Mac OS X trojan horse goes live, acts as Adobe Flash Player updater application

The bad news: There’ll always be people designing viruses, trojans and malware for computers. The good news: It’s quite a bit rarer on the Mac OS X side of things. Even so, the latest attempt from digital wrongdoers to infect your Mac has been spotted taking on the look and feel of Adobe’s Flash Installer. […]

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iPhone News

AT&T cracking down on customers using tethering, hotspot cracks

If you thought you were clever in tethering your smartphone or turning it into a Wi-Fi hotspot, AT&T might have some words about that. Per 9to5Mac, users have reported being kicked off their unlimited data plans for using free tethering apps such as MiWi for jailbroken iPhones or PDANet for Android handsets. AT&T is reportedly […]

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News Software

Google Chrome updated to 13.0.782.107

Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 13.0.782.107 for the Mac. The new version, a 42.1 megabyte download, offers the following the following changes: – Instant Pages. – Security fixes and improvements. Google Chrome 13.0.782.107 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.

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Apple TV News

Apple TV units moving briskly, no signs of updated models for Q3

Albeit not as popular as some of its other products, the Apple TV unit seems to be achieving moderate success, selling roughly 500,000 units per quarter as the 2011 holiday shopping season approaches. The latest update to Apple’s US$99 streaming media box arrived last fall and within just a few months went on to sell […]

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iOS News Software

Google works around Maps bug, quietly reposts fixed travel/arrival times

Well, this was a little awkward. Per PC World, Google has removed a service that predicted travel times with traffic from the browser-based version of Google Maps. Google Community Manager Daniel Mabasa announced the change in the Google help forum in response to a question from a user who noticed that ETA with traffic had […]