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Apple’s OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: iMessage on Mac, Notification Center and more
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Details surrounding Apple’s next-generation Mac operating system were released on Thursday morning, shedding light on a number of new features set to hit Apple’s desktop operating system later this year. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion highlights include the arrival of iMessage on Mac computers, a feature iOS users have...
Square Card Reader App Gets Top-Requested Feature: Admin Accounts & Permissions
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Today, mobile payments startup Square is rolling out what the company says is the most heavily-requested feature by its merchants to date: user permissions. What this means is that business owners will now be able to enable their staff to use Square devices to accept payments without having to provide those employees...
Intel demos Bluetooth-based anti-theft alarm for Ultrabooks, we go hands-on (video)
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We interrupt our wall-to-wall laptop and Windows 8 coverage to bring you some news about... chips. Specifically, Intel's latest ultra low voltage chips, and new features they'll bring to Ultrabooks, in particular. Here at Chipzilla's Computex keynote, we just got a demo of a new security feature that causes...
Lookout and T-Mobile bring you phones that will scream if lost
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Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile are teaming up today to bring you a unique security feature in mobile phones: custom Scream tones. With the new Scream tones you can try to pinpoint a missing smartphone on a map and then activate a loud noise such as a siren, train whistle, a...
The Google Wallet Hack Is Not The End Of The World (Or Even NFC) As We Know It
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Stay calm and carry on, people: It's way to soon to say that NFC should stand for Now Fatally Corrupted. Yes, Google's breakthrough NFC payments app Wallet is being mentioned all over the news thanks to a flaw--it's vulnerable to a hack that gives nefarious types access to your secure...
Nuance Dragon ID secures phones, tablets and PCs with your voice
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Do you wish your phone would wake up when you commanded it to, like Galaxy S III? Well, it's not gonna happen (at least not without some hacking). But, your next phone might just sport the feature, all without having to be saddled with the rest of TouchWiz. Nuance...
Hate CAPTCHAs? Catcha turns website security into a game of ‘spot the cat’
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CAPTCHA is one of the most frustrating security features on the Web. Despite their best efforts to keep nasty bots from creating user accounts, post spam to forums and the like, those funny-looking letters often baffle the most keen-eyed of humans too. Catcha is a far better (and more fun)...
Apple is extending the sandboxing deadline to June 1st for Mac App Store developer
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Apple today announced that it would extend the deadline for developers working to abide by the new sandboxing rules for Mac App Store apps. We have extended the deadline for sandboxing your apps on the Mac App Store from March 1st to June 1st to provide you with enough time to take...
AMD will integrate ARM processors in its 2013 x86 APUs
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AMD is to include ARM Cortex-A5 CPUs inside its x86 APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) starting from next year. AMD's APUs currently consist of an x86-based processor and an integrated GPU, but the chip maker is to add an ARM CPU as well in order to support advanced security functions....
Apple pushes developers to prepare for Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper security feature
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Whereas the Mac App Store provides an iOS-style curated app experience, current Mac owners are also able to install any application they desire from the web or elsewhere. As part of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple will be introducing a third option: apps that are available outside the...
Stanford researchers crack video CAPTCHA
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If you think CAPTCHAs are keeping spam bots at bay on the internet, think again. The same Stanford team that successfully cracked audio and text versions of the security feature turned their sights to video CAPTCHAs, and the results were similar. Video CAPTCHAs try to fend off bots by...
Mozilla preparing Mac code signing for Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper
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Firefox will soon be compatible with Gatekeeper TheRedPanda Mozilla developer Ben Hearsum wrote a blog post today, describing the status of the effort to integrate code signing into the automated build process for Firefox on Mac OS X. Mozilla aims to turn on code signing for the browser’s nightly...
Firefox skirts Windows security feature to make silent updates happen
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Mozilla will ship Firefox 12 on Tuesday with a key component of its years-long silent update project in place....
Apple's latest sandboxing deadline delay signals moving goalposts for devs
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Apple has given developers yet another few months to implement application sandboxing for OS X apps, a security feature brought over from iOS: the deadline is now June 1, 2012. While the intent of sandboxing is to prevent hacked apps from taking over a user's system, however, the sandbox...
Airbnb Buys U.K. Room Renter Crashpadder, Aziz Ansari Launches Online Comedy Show, Google Puts $5 In Your Google Wallet
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Airbnb Buys U.K. Room Renter Crashpadder. Airbnb has bought its U.K. competitor Crashpadder--good timing, with just a few months to go for the London Olympics. Three-year old Crashpadder has 7,000 hosts in 100 countries. Crashpadder accounts and details...
Airbnb Buys U.K. Room Renter Crashpadder, Aziz Ansari Launches Online Comedy Show, Google Puts $5 In Your Google Wallet
AT&T, 47 other carriers vulnerable to smartphone exploit
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Smartphone users on at least 48 cellular carriers may be vulnerable to traffic hijacking and phishing attacks, according to researchers from the University of Michigan. A paper to be presented this week at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy alleges that researchers were able exploit a carrier security feature...
About Gatekeeper
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Today’s Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I’d like to talk a little bit about it, and why it’s important to all Mac users. Malware is out of control. Almost every day I read...
About Gatekeeper
www.panic.com
Today’s Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I’d like to talk a little bit about it, and why it’s important to all Mac users. Malware is out of control. Almost every day I read...
Mountain Lion: Most Skippable OS X Upgrade Ever?
techcrunch.com
There’s a good reason Apple let Mountain Lion out of its cage this morning with no fanfare or event. Like Lion, the improvements are minor at best and some less than useless. Lion hasn’t sold particularly well, and few of its “improvements” have caught the attention of the public, except...
Hands-On With Apple’s Mountain Lion: Don’t Like Change? You’ll Love Mountain Lion
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While Microsoft is working on its most significant operating system update in recent memory, Apple just released the first developer preview of Mountain Lion, the next update to OS X. Mountain Lion is scheduled for a public release in the summer. As with Apple's Leopard to Snow Leopard update, the...
Apple prompts Mac developers to sign up for the Developer ID program
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Apple has sent out an email to developers that are a member of Apple’s Mac Developer program, encouraging them to sign up for a Developer ID certificate. This certificate will enable developers to offer applications outside of the Mac App Store that will install on Macs running Apple’s new Mountain...
Apple’s Gatekeeper pushes developers toward a Mac App Store future
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Today, Apple announced Mac OS X Mountain Lion and a host of new features coming summer 2012. Even a quick look at the announcement reveals just how much the Mac is moving towards iOS — in more ways than one. Beyond the sheen of new iOS-like features, Apple announced an important...
What developers think about Apple’s new Gatekeeper feature in Mountain Lion
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With the announcement of OS X Mountain Lion today, Apple dropped a ton of cool iOS features like iMessage, Game Center, AirPlay, Notification Center and more into its desktop offering. Those are very cool, but one that is probably the most interesting to developers making apps for the Mac is something...
Gatekeeper Already Present in OS X 10.7.3, Available for Developer Testing
www.macrumors.com
With developers needing to prepare for Apple's new Gatekeeper feature in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple has revealed that the functionality is already baked into OS X 10.7.3 but hidden by default. Apple has instructed developers that they can enable Gatekeeper on OS X 10.7.3 from the command line...
Mac developers: Gatekeeper is a concern, but still gives power users control
arstechnica.com
Apple's next version of its desktop operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, promises developers access to hundreds of new APIs to enable new functionality for their apps. While developers we spoke to seem mildly excited about the new functionality, their immediate focus was on the implications of Apple's new...
Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper to bring optional app restrictions to OS X
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The new behind-the-scenes Gatekeeper security feature in the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is one of the most anticipated additions to the operating system upgrade Apple unveiled on Thursday because it provides users with additional security options for installing and running third-party applications....
Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper to bring optional app restrictions to OS X
www.appleinsider.com
The new behind-the-scenes Gatekeeper security feature in the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is one of the most anticipated additions to the operating system upgrade Apple unveiled on Thursday because it provides users with additional security options for installing and running third-party applications....
Cody Burleson: Gmail Starts Sniffing Out Scammers
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Google Apps highlights — 3/26/2010
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This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.We've been busy over the last couple weeks launching updates to make Google Apps more useful, whether you use...
Leave Your Car at Home and Bike to Work Today
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Leave Your Car at Home and Bike to Work Today is a post from Chris PirilloToday is National Bike to Work Day, capping off an entire week of pushing Amercians to be healthier while saving the environment from harmful gasses AND helping cut down on fuel consumption. Sounds like a...
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