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About Flashback malware

A recent version of malicious software called Flashback exploits a security flaw in Java in order to install itself on Macs.

Cramer on Apple: ‘The greatest performing stock of our lives’

The host of CNBC’s Mad Money makes it his first pick in the “ultimate growth portfolio” From Mad Money. Source: CNBC It’s easy to forget, amid the boo-yahs, the bluster and the silly sound effects, that Jim Cramer (magna cum laude, … Continue reading

Analyst: ‘The entire cellphone and computing ecosystem will be shaken to the ground’

ACI Research’s Edward Zabitsky, who famously advised clients to short Apple when it was selling for $450 a share, has seen the future and it is Microsoft’s Windows 8  Click here to hear Zabitsky getting grilled on CNBC We know what … Continue reading

Motion 5.0.3: Release notes

Motion 5.0.3 is an update to Motion 5. This update is recommended for all users of Motion 5.

Compressor 4: Version 4.0.3 release notes

Compressor version 4.0.3 is an update to Compressor 4. The update is recommended for all users of Compressor 4.

Final Cut Pro X: Version 10.0.4 release notes

Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.4 is an update to Final Cut Pro X.

Global Electronics Contract Manufacturing Revenue

Moment of Reckoning: Apple/Foxconn Investigation Changes Nature of $360 Billion Electronics Contract Manufacturing Business

Dateline City:  EL SEGUNDO, Calif. For the footwear and apparel industry, the moment of reckoning came in the 1990s, when companies including Nike faced damaging revelations over their use of sweatshop manufacturing—an event that led to the creation of the … Continue reading

Gartner: Tablet sales to double this year. The iPad still rules

Expects market to grow to nearly 119 million units in 2012, with Apple taking 61% When it comes to tablet computers, a market Apple (AAPL) dominated in 2010 and 2011, Gartner expects more of the same for the foreseeable future. … Continue reading

If an iPhone wannabe lands on Easter, does it make a splash?

With the world’s mobile phone market at stake, what were Nokia and Microsoft thinking?  The Lumia 900 launch party in New York’s Times Square On Monday morning, the day after the U.S. launch of the Lumia 900 — the device … Continue reading

Apple analyst raises estimated EPS 39%, downgrades stock

Predicts the carriers will “stunt the pace of phone upgrades” in 2012, starting this quarter BTIG’s Walter Piecyk sent his clients some deeply mixed signals Monday, two weeks before Apple (AAPL) is scheduled to report its second fiscal quarter earnings. … Continue reading