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• 03 May 2011

• News: Adobe ships CS 5.5 updates

  The Creative Suite update unveiled last month began shipping Tuesday, according to Adobe.

• News: Apple releases Boot Camp update for Thunderbolt iMacs

  Hot on the heels of Apple’s new Thunderbolt-equipped lineup of iMacs is a Boot Camp update for said iMacs.

• News: Notificant for iPhone reminds you wherever you are

  Hey: Don’t forget to take the garbage out.

• News: Motorola Solutions launches controller, four APs

  Motorola Solutions Tuesday unveiled four 802.11 access points and a wireless LAN controller based on its WiNG 5 architecture.

• News: Internet Explorer and Firefox use continues to slide

  New browser market share data shows that both Internet Explorer and Firefox lost ground in April. While Microsoft and Mozilla trumpet their latest browsers, publicly trade jabs, and beat their chests at one another, Chrome and Safari are quietly gaining market share.

• News: Personal info sent offshore without permission: Shroff

  Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff says personal information collected by government agencies and businesses, often ends up overseas without the individual's knowledge.

• 02 May 2011

• News: Remains of the Day: Right there in black and white

  Is the white iPhone really thicker than the black iPhone? One publication attempts to satisfy our curiosity with the application of rigorous science. Elsewhere, Apple's rumored cloud service may have a codename, and Cupertino wins round one of a patent dispute. The remainders for Monday, May 2, 2011 are innocent until proven guilty.

• News: Coming Soon: A Faster Firefox for Linux Users

  Linux users' proverbial cup is already overflowing this spring thanks to several recent coups for the open source operating system. Just last week, however, more good news arrived for users of the free software in the form of an announcement from Mozilla that Firefox has been given a huge speed boost on Linux.

• News: Fake security software takes aim at Mac users

  Scammers are distributing fake security software aimed at the Mac by taking advantage of the news that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces, a security researcher said today.

• News: Site-specific browser tool Fluid hits 1.0

  Fluid is now solid. Developer Todd Ditchendorf has, after three and a half years, released Fluid 1.0, the first non-beta release of his software for creating single-site browsers. It's also, not inconsequentially, a brand new, completely fresh version of the app, rewritten from scratch.

• News: New Mac Trojan horse masquerades as virus scanner

  By and large, Mac users have been able to escape the onslaught of malware that their Windows counterparts suffer from. But every once in a while, a piece of nastiness slips into the wild. The latest offender is a Trojan horse by the name of MAC Defender, which purports to be a virus-scanning application. In fact, it does little more than encourage users to give up their credit card information.

• News: Apple's iOS doubles operating system market share

  Apple's iOS has more than doubled its market share in the past 10 months.

• News: Internet creaks under tidal wave of bin Laden death news

  President Obama's late-night announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs triggered a massive amount of real-time comments, searches, social networking and video streaming. The traffic explosion bogged down news pages and for a while even crashed CNN's mobile news site.

• News: BES to Get iOS, Android Management Features

  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has extended its reach in the mobile-device-management (MDM) space with the acquisition of a German software company ubitexx, maker of the ubi-Suite device management software.

• News: RIM announces two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones

• News: Apple's Popular Apps Not Exclusive to iPhone: Analysis

  Apple has the largest app store by a long shot: Currently iPhone users can choose from 350,000 apps. But how many apps do people really use--and should the size of the Apple App Store sway your next smartphone purchase? It shouldn't.

• News: Sony finds no apparent Anonymous link to PlayStation attack

  Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had earlier targeted its systems.

• News: iPhoto update adds new card themes, fixes bugs

  On Tuesday, Apple released the latest update to iPhoto 9—aka iPhoto ’11. iPhoto 9.1.2 adds new card themes to the app, as well as provides the obligatory improvements in “overall stability” and addresses a number of other minor issues.

• News: IE9 can't stop Microsoft's browser slump

  The March launches of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4 failed to stop Microsoft's and Mozilla's decline in browser share, new Web usage data shows.

• 01 May 2011

• News: How to Respond (and Not) to a Public Relations Incident

  There have been a number of significant data breach and service outage incidents lately. The difference in how organizations respond illustrates both good ways and bad ways to handle a public relations crisis.

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