We have actually seen a deep dip in spam and phishing attacks through the new year, however it is on the rise again. Insustry trackers seem to agree with these findings. This edition of Net Safety Infomanager includes: * Spam returns to business as usual * The Waledac botnet has made a return to spamming after an unexplained hiatus. * AOL Customers Under Attack From Latest Phishing * Phone Gangster, “Spoofing” * Tips for ensuring email privacy, deliverability * Safer web browsing in four steps * Kama Sutra Malware Puts You in Position for Hack Attack * TSA data contractor gets prison for planting malwareiPad Infomanager 1101-17
iPad rumors continue to heat up … this edition sees a leaked video of the iPad 2, and rumored release dates, among others … * Apple iPad 2 to lose home button with iOS 4.3 updates? * Apple iPad Enterprise Future Looks Bright vs. PlayBook * News Corp’s The Daily: iPad newspaper to be launched on Jan. 19 * Apple iPad 2 Captured on Video: Fake or Not? * If Oprah can do it, so can schools in Singapore. * Apple Gets Patent For Solar-Powered Mobile Devices * Possible iPad 2 US Release Date Leaked * What’s In Store For Attendees at Macworld 2011 * Verizon iPads finally ditch MiFi cards for real connectivity … and more
TimeTag, the iOS time sheet application, is now available as a free, ad-supported app using Apple’s iAds. TimeTag is a universal iPad/iPhone application centered around the use of tags to record and track time spent on activities and projects. Unlike many other time sheet applications, TimeTag is designed to look great and be fast and simple to use. 
Multifunctional Calendar App AroundCal is now available in version 1.7 exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. With AroundCal, you can add photos, user definable lists, priority, tag, progress status, project or voice memo to your iPhone calendar events: AroundCal is automatically in sync with the iPhone Calendar App, MobileMe, and other sync services who sync the iPhone calendar. Also subscribed calendars will be shown.
iForm 3.2 with Linea-pro integration allows users to create complex business solutions allowing iPod touch devices to be utilized for field services, work order management, and point-of-sale solutions. iFormBuilder provides secure, scalable, flexible, effective, and efficient mobile data collection for teams on the go.
Elasty 2.0 for Mac OS X is designed for video enthusiasts. Elasty is the movie toolbox that allows enhancement and customization of QuickTime movies, such as image stabilization, and motion tracking-based special effects. It is the perfect companion to Apple’s iMovie on the Mac. 
Solar Spark Productions has launched Remotomatic Camera 1.1 for iOS, an update to their app that provides Bluetooth remote control of any iPhone or iPod touch camera. Designed as a transmitter/receiver, it enables the user to control most camera functions remotely, producing high quality pictures with a tripod-mounted iPhone. 
Corner-A has rolled out LightFrame 2.0 for Mac OS X. The New version of LightFrame brings an improved user interface and new rendering engine made from the scratch. Both stability and performance increased, and a lot of features were added as well, including frame stacks. LightFrame now allows to add even complex frames with few clicks and set up every aspect of the frame.
iCalamus is a multi-lingual, frame-oriented desktop publishing solution for Mac OS X. iCalamus offers an easy approach to DTP, and an excellent choice for creating simple posters, to complex magazines, scientific works and book publishing. Version 1.21 now supports iPhoto 08/09/11 and Aperture 3 calendar and photo book documents for printing as high-quality Photographerbook documents externally at a great price.
Readdle has released Scanner Pro 3.0, a major update to their popular iPhone application that transforms the device into a portable scanner. Using Scanner Pro 3.0, iPhone owners scan multi-page documents lightning fast thanks to a new, specially designed interface. 
The Wikileaks saga continues into the new year … we knew it wouldn’t go away — * WikiLeaks cables prompt US to move diplomatic sources * Julian Assange: I Own All of the WikiLeaks Documents * How to save Julian Assange’s movement from itself. * Espionage prosecution likely * WikiLeaks Cables Cited in Lawsuit Over $500 Million Sunken Treasure * US Government Secretly Subpoenas Wikileaks Info From Twitter * U.S. Warns On Reprisals Against Sources In WikiLeaks * Lessons WikiLeaks teaches * first diplomatic WikiLeaks casualty * Agencies instructed on how to review information security . . 
International game development collective Vision Thing Software has announced ‘Ballywoo – The Game Sensation of 1932′, a free version of its popular iPhone and iPod touch game. Ballywoo recreates one of the first commercial, mass-produced pinball machines ever made. That machine launched the career of Ray Moloney’s Bally Manufacturing Corporation. 
