The proliferation of the WannaCry ransomware last week unequivocally justifies Apple’s steadfast refusal to help the FBI…
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The Microsoft Tax: Rapidly replicating Windows PC worm spreads as experts try to limit damage; Macintosh unaffected
Employees booting up computers at work Monday could see red as they discover they’re victims…
The Microsoft Tax: Leaked NSA malware hijacks Windows PCs worldwide; Macintosh unaffected
In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA…
Microsoft makes Visual Studio for Mac generally available
Microsoft is making its Visual Studio for Mac product generally available today…
Microsoft took 9 months to fix bug that let hackers seize control of Windows PCs
To understand why it is so difficult to defend computers from even moderately capable hackers…
WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’
WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…
What WikiLeaks’ CIA data dump tells us: Encryption works
If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…
Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies
WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…
Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain
Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…
WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…
Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched
Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..
WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…
Why Apple’s Mac is dramatically infiltrating the enterprise
Mac shipments to businesses grew 43.8 percent in the second quarter of this year…
Can me-too Google’s me-too ‘Google Fit’ catch up with Apple’s revolutionary HealthKit?
Not long after Apple launched its health platform HealthKit on iOS in mid-2014…
How to rescue your Mac from malware corruption
I’d never seen an attack like this on a Mac before in my life, and finding this kind of full-Mac hijack is very rare…
Apple files a patent application for a circular wearable
Recent patent application filed in by Apple with the USPTO hints that Cupertino could be investigating a circular Apple Watch…
Microsoft is bringing Visual Studio to Apple’s Mac
Microsoft has announced it’s launching its primary coding interface, Visual Studio…
Zero day Microsoft Windows flaw lets hackers take full control of Windows PCs
Google has revealed a critical bug in Microsoft Windows software that could give hackers full control…
The debate is over: IBM confirms that Apple Macs are $535 less expensive than Windows PCs
Attendees arrived early to the Guthrie [Wednesday] morning to claim seats for the most anticipated session…
IBM realizes huge savings with largest-ever enterprise Mac deployment: 100,000 Macs by end of year
IBM is saving a minimum of $265 per Mac on average versus a comparable PC…
Five years on, why doesn’t Apple’s Siri work better than it does?
There are some fundamental differences between Apple and Google when it comes to privacy…
Mossberg: Why does Apple’s Siri seem so dumb?
In addition to the iPhone, Siri is now on the iPad, and was recently added to the Mac…
Apple is about to resurrect the dying PC industry
Gartner’s latest PC market figures show global PC shipments fell 5.7 percent worldwide in the quarter…
Deloitte: Apple products ‘essential to the modern workforce’
This week’s big enterprise story is Apple’s new partnership with Deloitte in which the companies…
10 reasons why Apple is winning the enterprise
Apple under Tim Cook is dramatically extending its reach…
Apple reportedly working on sleep tracker for the Apple Watch
During the unveiling of the new Apple Watch, the iPhone-maker presented the wearable as primarily a fitness device…
Apple to expand HealthKit from tracker to diagnosis tool; new Apple Watch apps for sleep tracking, fitness levels in pipeline
So far Apple Inc.’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices…
USB Kill 2.0 can destroy any Windows PC in seconds, Apple Macintosh unaffected
A Hong Kong based manufacturer, USB Kill, recently developed a device that can annihilate…
Google is axing Chrome apps for Mac and Windows
Google will be killing off Chrome apps for both Mac and Windows in the next few years…
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update freezes systems, breaks millions of webcams
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update for PCs started rolling out more than two weeks ago…
Malwarebytes warns of new Mac malware that could fool less-technical users
If a user tries to open a file for which they don’t have a corresponding app…
Apple has made notable progress in the enterprise
Apple’s interest in the enterprise hasn’t always been obvious…
Apple’s enterprise iPad plan is coming together in a big way
Government and enterprise users really do love their iPads…
Apple working on all-new, advanced health-tracking hardware; years in the making
Apple has developed a ‘revolutionary idea’ with this new product…
Beleaguered Microsoft axes 2,850 more employees
Beleaguered Microsoft said in May it would cut 1,850 jobs in its smartphone business…
Sales suffer as Apple neglects the Mac
New data from research firms Gartner and IDC indicate that Apple Macs suffered significant declines…
Apple’s Mac sales fall, economies shudder
The latest PC marketshare figures from Gartner and IDC suggest Mac users are anxious for new MacBooks…
Tim Bajarin: Siri is crucial to the Apple’s future
Apple has been working on speech and voice AI solutions for decades…
The time has come to think different about Apple’s Siri
Siri is an invisible operating system poised to propel Apple, and its products, into the future…
Apple’s Siri digital assistant made Cortana look bad at WWDC
Siri upstaged Cortana Monday morning…
Judge rules Michael Dell didn’t give all the money back to the shareholders, by $6 billion
A Delaware judge’s recent ruling that Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners shortchanged public shareholders…
Apple’s Mac reaches 9.2% share online as Windows PC suffering declines to new low
Apple saw its share of personal-computer operating systems in use on the Internet rise to a new high in April…
