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A Mac computer is light-years ahead of a Windows computer in terms of security, they do however experience rare exploits a few times a year. Earlier this year nearly 600,000 Macs were affected by Flashback malware, spread through Java. Only days later, a trojan called 'LuckyCat' took advantage of an exploit in Microsoft Word on...

With Twitter's latest announcement, they've added a limit to the amount of users a third-party application can support. The limit allows up to 100,000 user tokens, anything beyond will have to be negotiated with Twitter. Due to the changes, Tapbots has removed the download link to its Tweetbot for Mac Alpha application and released the following...

Apple has announced the promotion of Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio to senior vice presidents, to join the executive management team at Apple, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Moreover, Bob Mansfield was noted to remain at Apple even though he 'announced' his retirement in June. As senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, Federighi will...

The Verge reports on the Samsung devices Apple seeks to ban in the U.S., as noted in their court filing: "Apple respectfully submits the following chart, reflecting the eight out of the twenty-eight adjudicated infringing products for which it seeks a preliminary injunction pending a final injunction..." Galaxy S 4G Galaxy S2 (AT&T) Galaxy S2...

While Samsung plans to appeal jury's verdict and a damages bill of over $1 billion for copying Apple's design patents, it remains the sole supplier of micro-processing chips that power Apple's iOS devices. Hence, analysts believe that the "symbiotic business relationship between Samsung and Apple" is too important for either to put at risk (via Reuters). According to...

Soon after jury reached a verdict announcing Samsung did infringe on Apple’s design patents and it owes Apple over $1 billion in damages, Apple and Samsung both  issued official statements regarding the jury's decision and now, Google has reflected its thoughts saying that it isn't worried about the outcome since “most of these [patents] don’t relate to the core Android operating system", as...

Flurry, a mobile application analytics company, decided to study just how fast iOS and Android devices were growing these days. So they compiled data and provided us with some interesting facts and charts. In effort to prove their point, read the following facts: Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that...

Samsung has filed a motion with U.S. District Court of Northern California arguing that its Galaxy Tab 10.1 has not infringed on any Apple iPad design patent, hence the preliminary ban on Galaxy Tab sales in U.S. should be lifted immediately, reports The Verge. Samsung's tablet was found to have violated several software patents, though the preliminary injunction was based on...

We reported yesterday that AT&T was holding a vacation blackout September 21st to September 30th based off a Techcrunch report, but now it turns out it may have been a  simple rumor. With a similar Verizon report a few weeks ago, we were nearly assured the accuracy of the report. Fellow Apple blog 9To5Mac decided to contact...

With the Apple vs. Samsung case coming to a brutal end for Samsung this past Friday, what's to come next? Apple's stocks have already soared above and beyond $680 this morning, hitting a new all-time high. While all is good for Apple, Samsung is suffering as their market value plummeted 12 billion due to the loss....

Last week, Apple won a historical patents battle against Samsung when jury awarded Apple $1.049 billion in damages. Today was the first day of trading since the court ruling and already, the Cupertino company's stock price (NASDAQ:AAPL) is going haywire opening at a record high of $680 per share, as pointed out first by Tech Crunch. The new stock...

A couple of months back, we reviewed Us+U's trademark swivel cases for iPad 2nd/3rd Gen & Kindle Fire and today, we'll check out the company's latest addition to its lineup of iPad 2 and New iPad cases called the Swivel ProFolio™. As the name indicates, it is a portfolio-style iPad case that also features Us+U's patent pending self-adjusting hand strap, allowing it...