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RIMM Holding Off Apple - For Now

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Tue, 07/15/2008 - 10:30

Will the new iPhone chomp into Blackberry’s market share? Some thoughts on the subject are bubbling up on Wall Street, with the sentiment leaning toward Research in Motion, the company that manufacturers the Blackberry, being in good shape for the short term.

After all, the iPhone is great if you’re an Apple computer user, but not so much if you’re not. Most corporate users aren’t Apple users, and are reasonably happy with their Blackberry’s.

Not too many IT directors are going to take a sledgehammer to their telcom infrastructure to make way for a cell phone that isn’t as...


 

Scareware Mac Trojan tries to bite Apple users

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sat, 03/29/2008 - 08:12

Mac OS X is not, on the whole, known as an OS which attracts too many problems when it comes to malware. However, in the last few days there has been something of a scare involving the Immunizator Trojan.

According to IT security specialists Sophos this may well just be a case of one bad apple which should not induce panic amongst users.

Sophos reports that the Troj/MacSwp-B Trojan, if you want to be formal about naming, appears to try and scare Mac users by claiming there are privacy issues on your computer and the cure is to purchase some software which is not in fact required.

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