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Lots of interesting news floating around mentioning Apple … seems even the writers who never write about Apple are writing about Apple …
[] THE TRUTH ABOUT OS X LION: Don’t Bother Buying It
[] A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Bungie
[] MacBook Air Selling Out In Some Stores
[] Apple’s New, iCloud-Powered Find My iPhone Service Goes Live
[] Apple’s new laptop, OS pack a powerful roar
[] iPhone thief is caught after victim finds him using tracking app
[] Why iPhone 5 is being delayed by Apple
. . . and more

Our last report was on the 14th, and a lot can happen in two weeks. Among others, we were blown away by the report that spammers make 7-grand a day! Others include: * Your social media profile: Watch out for the risks
* Using Google Alerts For Reputation Management
* Could Facebook Keep Your Kid Out of College?
* The Risks of Social Media: Avoiding Disaster
* Spotify splattered with malware-tainted ads
* Web-search box at top of Facebook page may be malware
* NetQin Denies Claims That It Uploads Malware to Phones With Its Antivirus Software
* Securing against identity theft
* Spammers Make $7000 a Day
* Dvorak : The Worst Spam Filter
* ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison
* and more …

  Malware, hacking, phishing and cybercrime is growing with news stories and new online attractions. Here’s what we found this week: 
* News about royal engagement leads to malware
* Malware pushers lure victims with leaked Harry Potter movie screener
* ‘New Password’ Phishing Scam Email Targets Facebook Users
* The 10 Most Unsafe Facebook Pages
* BlackHat SEO Poisons the Web
* Cyber security by the numbers
* Online Fraud — Consumer Protection Revealed
* Sophos publishes list of Mac attacks
* Bogus help desk victimizing plenty of online users
* Is your enterprise winning the war against malware?

According to Ars Tecnica, the Apple Newton wasn’t going to be able to handle dates after this year. But it has now been updated by a third party to allow it to continue on for a long time. Continue reading »

App Update is a free Dashboard Widget, (they do have a donation button on their web site) that can automatically check for updates to your installed software. It supports Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker. It will present you with a tidy link list of all the updates found, enabling you to read release-notes and download the the updates quickly and painlessly. Continue reading »

As long as we are talking about AppleTV (see below), what about hacks to make it more useful? Apparently in most cases, Apple Inc, doesn’t care as much about hacking AppleTV as they do about hacking the iPhone. Continue reading »

Microsoft has issued updates for both 2004 and 2008 versions of Office for the Mac. Continue reading »

I believe I have mentioned AppFresh before as part of a list of Mac software. But it really deserves a more prominent mention. Continue reading »

I just visited Mactopia.com and looked at the latest updates from Microsoft. There were several downloads that users of Mac versions of Office should know about. Continue reading »

Stocks down? Stocks up? Dollar down? Oil up? In today’s topsy-turvy stock market world you won’t know what’s up or down without relying on someone else, or watching the trends on your own trusted computer! BeSoft has answers Continue reading »