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How big is Flashback compared to Windows malware?

April 7, 2012

I’ve heard some comments on forums which suggest that Flashback isn’t that important or successful because it’s “only” infected around 1% of the Mac installed base – around 500,000 machines, from about 50 million. Unfortunately, this displays the kind of ignorance about malware and its prevalence that I’ve often found from Mac users.

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Teens love the iPhone

April 6, 2012

Cells like teen spirit – The Daily: A new survey shows that 34 percent of U.S. teens have iPhones — while another 40 percent plan to buy one within the next six months. It looks like teens have moved on from the BlackBerry, and instead of diving into cheap Android, have held out for cheaper [...]

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That’s some leaky firewall, Mr Rubin

February 27, 2012

Andy Rubin on the “firewall” between Motorola and Google. Rubin said he was “painfully aware” of concerns, but stressed that Google has “literally built a firewall” between the Android team and Motorola. “I don’t even know anything about their products, I haven’t seen anything,” he said. Given that Motorola needed Google’s explicit permission to launch [...]

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Will the iPad 3 use LTE?

February 22, 2012

Almost everyone seems to believe that the next iPad, rumoured to be being launched in early March, will have 4G connectivity, in the shape of LTE. When the Wall Street Journal is reporting it, that usually means it’s pretty likely. However, I actually have my doubts. To my mind, there’s more than a few reasons [...]

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Three things Google needs to do to kickstart Android tablets

February 19, 2012

I’ve been using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 for a while, in addition to the iPad 2 that I regularly use. It’s a nice little piece of hardware – lighter than the iPad (as you’d expect from the smaller size), and with enough battery life and power to do plenty of stuff. In common with [...]

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Whoa. IPhone accounts for more than 80% of AT&T smartphone sales

January 26, 2012

IPhone accounts for more than 80 percent of AT&T smartphone sales: AT&T posted its fourth quarter results for 2011 on Thursday and highlighted smartphone sales in particular, which reached a record high of 9.4 million devices, beating the standing company record by 50 percent. Apple should be very happy with those results, too, since 7.6 million, or [...]

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My, how Google’s attitude has changed

January 26, 2012

Google, five months ago: “A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a “tax” for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers. They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, [...]

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For developers, Android users aren’t the same as iPhone users

January 10, 2012

John Gruber on the difference between Android users and iOS users: The truth is, the average Android user is not the same as an average iPhone user. iPhone users surf the web more, they’re more willing to buy software, they’re more willing to install and use apps. Some of these stats aren’t even close. What [...]

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A 7in tablet is not just a smaller 10.1in tablet

December 26, 2011

I’ve recently been using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, one of the newest generation of Android tablets running Honeycomb (an Ice Cream Sandwich update is in the pipeline. Even though it’s not significantly cheaper than the 10.1in Tab, I got it because of the different form factor: it’s significantly lighter and easier to carry around [...]

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Scrivener for iOS – coming soon(ish)

December 24, 2011

Here’s an early Christmas present for me and for quite a few of my friends and colleagues: Scrivener, the marvellous long-form writing tool for Mac, is coming to iPad and iPhone: It’s still early days, though – we are about to embark on the design process proper, and all we can say in terms of [...]

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