Friday, November 2, 2007

Week in review: Go go Google


Category: Biometric News, Security, Identity Theft, Mobile, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
The search giant is outgrowing expectations, while Apple releases its Leopard into the wild. Also: Finding some privacy on the Net. Google is big and getting bigger. Google's shares traded over the $700 mark this week, marking a new first for the Internet giant. Just a...

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Mac users waiting months for ‘critical’ Java runtime update


Category: Biometric News, Security, Ryan Naraine, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., JDK, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Mac OS X
Ten months ago (October 2006), a member of Google's security team discovered and reported two code execution vulnerabilities in Sun's Java ICC (image) profile parsing code.Seven months later (May 2007), Sun issued an update (JDK 1.5.0_11-b03) that was available for Window, Solaris, and Linux.One big problem. It's August 2007...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The real question about Mac security


Category: Biometric News, Security, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, David Morgenstern
While on a quick trip this week to New York City (to see my daughter in a FringeNYC Festival musical theater production), I spent a good while cooling my heels in various coffee shops around the Village. Counting the laptops plopped on tables, I figured that more than 70 percent...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Why Apple doesn’t get more of my cash


Category: Biometric News, Security, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
One question that I get asked on almost a daily basis is why I don't abandon the Windows platform and shift over to using Mac.  When I posted my "30 things I've learned from using Linux …" post, the point that raised the most discussion was #27:The more I use...

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