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Symantec: Flashback malware still present on approximately 140,000 Macs

The good news: The Flashback malware’s infection numbers have gone down dramatically. The bad news: About 140,000 of you need to look into removing the malware on your Mac. Per a recent Symantec blog post, the security firm guessed that the number of affected machines would have dropped precipitously by now given that Apple and […]

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Opinion: Per Your iOS Devices, Be Careful Out There

I should have seen this coming. Last night, as I’d done half a dozen times before without incident, I sat outside the BloomBars art space in Washington, D.C. replying to email on my iPad 2, listening to an ancient Guns ‘n Roses song off the “Appetite for Destruction” album and feeling like everything was right […]

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Apple releases iMovie 9.0.1 update

Late Thursday, Apple released iMovie 9.0.1, the latest version of its consumer-level video editing application. The new version, a 27.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixes an issue where stabilization would not be applied correctly to some video clips from iPhone and iPod touch. – Fixes an issue that prevented use […]

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Rumor: Apple working to include RFID, near-field computing functions into next-gen iPhone

Ok, this could be interesting. Citing an anonymous source, Mac web site Cult of Mac has reported that Apple is working on adding a near-field communication chip to Apple’s next-generation iPhone would add not only “e-wallet” transactions, but also the ability to securely turn a nearby Mac into your own computer, complete with custom settings […]