Monday, June 06, 2011

Apple’s Big Announcements

It was another big day for Apple, this time as the lead event for the week-long Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Steve Jobs again took the stage to announce new features for the forthcoming “Lion” upgrade for the MacOS, new features for an upgrade to iOS (for the iPhone and iPad), and finally, the big announcement: Apples new iCloud storage service. Lot of interesting new features here, many of which have already been done by Android, Amazon, and Microsoft. The features of iCloud are covered in the first story.

On the darker side of Apple, new viruses continue to plague the Mac operating system.  Even though Apple issued a fix for the last malware attack, the bad guys bypassed it in just a few hours. So if you are an Apple user, be careful…very very careful. You are now being targeted. Apple is a neophyte in the anti-virus game

Also check out the story on cell phone radiation. I am sure you will find it very enlightening. Read on….JRC.

Jobs announces Apple's iCloud storage service

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced an online cloud storage service called iCloud, designed to make it simple to wirelessly share music, e-mail, photos, calendars, and other data between handheld gadgets and desktop computers. The new Apple service, which has been the subject of intense speculation for more than a year, attempts to harness the power and flexibility of cloud computing for home users. It uses techniques that have already proved popular with businesses to make it easier to move data stored on Apple's servers back and forth between multiple devices and applications.

New Apple antivirus signatures bypassed within hours by malware authors

The bad guys have wasted no time. Hours after Apple released this update and the initial set of definitions, a new variation of Mac Defender is in the wild. This one has a new name, Mdinstall.pkg, and it has been specifically formulated to skate past Apple’s malware-blocking code.

Cell phone radiation: A self-defense guide (FAQ)

To help readers figure out their best options for reducing exposure to cell phone radiation and to answer other questions related to protecting oneself, CNET has put together this FAQ. Note: this is the third of three articles on cell phone radiation. Links to the first two stories are included.

Google's Eric Schmidt 'screwed up' over social network FAIL

Google's Eric Schmidt has shouldered the blame for the company's lack of effort in nailing a successful social networking strategy to compete with rival Facebook.

Angry Birds Comes to Windows--No Browser Required

Well, it appears the Birds have migrated to Windows PCs too, and no browser is necessary. Rovio is selling two flavors of Angry Birds--the original and Rio versions--for Windows. Each is $4.95, or you can download a free demo version to check it out.

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