News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Apple’s Safari will be the first browser to fall next month at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organiser has predicted.
Gregg Keizer | Feb 18, 2010
Just hours before Adobe is slated to deliver the latest patches for its popular PDF viewer, a security firm announced that by its counting, malicious Reader documents made up 80 percent of all exploits at the end of 2009.
Gregg Keizer | Feb 17, 2010
A hacking contest next month will award cash prizes of $US15,000 ($A18,000) to anyone who can break into an iPhone, BlackBerry Bold, Droid or Nokia smartphone.
Gregg Keizer | Feb 17, 2010
The iPad is too big and lacks communication capabilities, argued the former Apple executive who oversaw the demise of the company’s iconic-but-flawed Newton more than a decade ago.
Gregg Keizer | Feb 8, 2010
Microsoft last week cited a 2008 legal victory by operating system rival Apple as it asked a federal court to toss out antitrust claims brought by a company that sells Xbox 360 accessories armed with video game cheats.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 27, 2010
Mac clone maker Psystar last week appealed a federal court’s injunction that bars it from selling Mac OS X-equipped computers.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 20, 2010
Mozilla has made major changes to how it develops Firefox, and plans to drop Firefox 3.7 from its schedule and instead roll out incremental changes throughout the year, a company executive said Thursday.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 15, 2010
While Mac sales in the U.S. were up 31 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, Apple was unable to keep pace with exploding sales of cheap Windows PCs, and fell to the No. 5 spot, research firm IDC said Wednesday.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 15, 2010
Adobe late Tuesday patched eight security vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in its popular PDF viewing and editing programs.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 14, 2010
Microsoft will patch Word on the Mac to comply with a federal court’s ruling requiring it to remove custom XML technology from its popular word processing software, the company confirmed last week.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 12, 2010
Nokia last week asked a federal court to block Apple from importing virtually any of Apple's current hardware into the U.S., including the iPhone, iPod and Mac lines.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 6, 2010
Although Mac clone maker Psystar has turned off the lights at its Web site, the firm is not shutting down permanently, the company’s lawyer said recently.
Gregg Keizer | Jan 4, 2010
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
