Free antivirus software pioneer Avast, has received a $100 million (£64 million) investment from private equity firm Summit Partners to woo business users and open new offices around the globe. Summit Partners managing director Scott Collins will get a seat on the Czech company’s board in return for its cash and will help the...
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Apple surpassed Microsoft two months ago as the world’s most highly valued tech company, and is now challenging the Redmond giant on another key metric: In a blowout third quarter, AAPL posted record revenue of $15.7 billion, which should be close to or exceed what Microsoft reports on Thursday. Apple’s quarter easily surpassed consensus...
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Hackers are now targeting bank ATMs, a USA Today report found. Not only can they steal your account information, but now they’ve also figured out how to get your PIN. Think using an ATM is safe? Think again. Thieves are increasingly using high-tech skimmers to steal all the information they need to acess your...
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Apple’s new iPhone, its fourth in four years, reaches stores on Thursday. Ordinarily, this is where you’d expect to find a review of it. But honestly — what’s the point? The iPhone 4 is already a hit. AT&T says that it received 10 times as many preorders as it did for the iPhone 3GS...
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I got this email from Apple and this is wonderful for MobileMe users. Dear MobileMe Member, Today we’re making available to all MobileMe members an all-new Mail web application, a Find My iPhone app, and a new way to navigate between applications at me.com. Read on for details. All-new Mail at me.com MobileMe Mail...
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Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that...
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Macworld – Apple announced a major update to the Mac mini line Tuesday morning, and we were lucky enough to get our hands on one. Here are our first impressions after a few hours of use. (You can also check out our slideshow on the new mini.) Slimming down The first thing you’ll notice...
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Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Monday afternoon. We’ve been testing it for close to a full day, and we’ve found that Safari 5 performs as advertised: It’s faster, more capable and well worth the upgrade. Safari 5 was launched rather quietly at the end of the first day of the...
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Jobs has just completed outlining all of the iPhone 4’s revolutionary new features. Now to reveal what it’ll cost your wallet. Coming in black and white, the iPhone 4 will cost $199 for the 16GB models, the same price as the 3GS. $299 gets you the 32GB iPhone 4. Already in a contract? AT&T...
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A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a “very serious” problem, an executive at one unaffected company said. Last week, researchers at Matousec.com outlined how attackers could exploit the kernel driver hooks that most security software use to reroute Windows system calls through their software to...
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New computer forensic tools will make it possible to recover more data from corrupted hard drives so long as the missing filles haven’t been overwritten. Tools designed to harvest images from disks even after they have been deleted from the file system can be adapted to seek other file formats including Word documents, says...
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When Gray Powell, a software engineer, accidentally left his mobile phone behind on a bar stool after his 27th birthday celebration, he wasn’t just losing a few personal numbers. It was a prototype of Apple’s next-generation iPhone — a device so secret that it does not yet have an official release date, or even...
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A new variant of the Zbot/Zeus Trojan has been discovered, prompting one security specialist to call for improvements in malware protection. According to Trusteer, A leading provider of virus protection solutions, the discovery should encourage the virus and malware protection industry to ‘ratchet up’ its strategy. Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer’s chief executive, explained that the...
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