Posts tagged as: Apple

How to detect and remove Flashback malware from Mac OS X – Part 1

Since Apple’s beloved operating system, Mac OS X is under attacker, especially the versions after 2010, that would be Snow Leopard and last year’s Lion. The malware that has become the pain in Apple circles is infamous for the alias, Flashback that attacks the operating system on weak point of Java vulnerability in the web […]

How to detect and remove Flashback malware from Mac OS X – Part 2

OS X does not come with Java installed by default, and the latest versions of Java should be patched properly so anyone with new or properly updated systems should be safe from these threats; however, there are likely many people still running older versions of Java on their systems that are still vulnerable. If you […]

How to detect and remove Flashback malware from Mac OS X – Part 3

F-Secure’s analysis offers a detailed method for detecting and ultimately removing the malware from your system, though you can easily detect the malware in its known variants by running the following three commands sequentially in the OS X Terminal utility: defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment If your system […]

New developments in the processor technology – Quad-core processors replace dual-core

One thing to know about the mobile computing is that it is evolving week after week. Not far the days when dual-core processors were considered the next big thing in the market, and it is not that far away, just 2011. Now that NVIDIA has offered quad-core processors, the 2011 models look the thing of […]

Quad-core processors: Do they really double up the efficiency of smartphones? – Part 1

As the numbers rise, so does the processor technology. Last year we saw dual-core processors dominate the game of smartphones and tablets. The year before, HTC brought the first Android smartphone with a processor clocked at GHz of speed, the original EVO 3G. However, the technology has evolved and I must say that the process […]

Quad-core processors: Do they really double up the efficiency of smartphones? – Part 2

Getting a license to custom build a CPU core based on ARM’s raw instruction set and managing everything from design of the entire ARM-based system to the final production is the path to even better performance, says Qualcomm’s Raj Talluri, vice president of product management. “We’re able to get more performance with two processors than […]

Quad-core processors: Do they really double up the efficiency of smartphones? – Part 3

The basic reason why quad core cannot compete with dual core on double the performance game, likewise with dual-core and single-core, is because the apps are not designed in that way. Most of the apps are designed to render in a single thread. The cores cannot make distribute code into two or four parts. That […]

Attention smartphone makers! This is how you should be milking the multi-core processors

It is considered, in general, that the more the cores you get in a smartphone, the efficient the CPU becomes. That probably has been the doctrine at ARM Technologies, who developed the processors and cores for dual core and now the quad core processors. However, the new quad-core and last year’s dual-core processors taxed the […]

Why does Microsoft still support single-core processors? Cost and Battery effectiveness

Though Microsoft is the last player to enter the contemporary world of smartphones, it has entered the arena with a bang. Its dedicated operating system for smartphones, called Windows Phone is one of the most efficient and elegant OS in the market yet. However, due to the already dominated=by=Android-and-iOS market, the WP could not attract […]

DOJ may sue Apple over ebooks as early as Wednesday: sources

(Reuters) – The Justice Department could sue Apple Inc as early as Wednesday over alleged electronic book price-fixing, while settling with several publishers as early as this week, two people familiar with the matter said.   The Justice Department is investigating alleged price-fixing by Apple and five major publishers: CBS Corp’s Simon & Schuster Inc; […]

Is it impossible to migrate from iOS to other platforms? – Part 1

Since it is certainly one of the best phones in the market if not the best to some users, the iPhone series is now taking a toll on those who want to switch to other platforms for a change. What apple has with its customers that has brought a huge pile of cash in the […]

Is it impossible to migrate from iOS to other platforms? – Part 2

For example, the mobile apps for different services come first to the iOS platform and then Android, whereas being a late comer Windows Phone gets its turn in the last in most of the cases. NetFlix, Pandora, Hulu are just a few examples that have always preferred iOS before attending to Android and WP. However, […]

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