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Apple products especially tempting to cyberthieves

Apple products especially tempting to cyberthieves

Posted by | Mar 20, 2010 | , |

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, online fraud of all kinds rose 22.3 percent between 2008 and 2009. Credit-card fraud made up about 10% of the total number of complaints referred to law enforcement.

Last year, companies and individuals lost more than half a billion dollars to cyberthieves, and a “disproportionate share of that was Apple-related,” says “The Washington Post” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031905613.html?wprss=rss_technology).

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Over 190,000 iPads pre-ordered

Over 190,000 iPads pre-ordered

Posted by | Mar 20, 2010 | , |

After Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad, 190,000 orders were placed within the first week. That rate slowed to 5,000 per day as Apple begins offering school discounts, reports “Fortune” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/20/ipad-week-1-190000-pre-orders/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29).

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White paper offers ‘Practical Guide to iPhone Application Development’

Posted by | Mar 20, 2010 | |

Robert McHale’s “A Practical Legal Guide to iPhone Application Development” white paper is now available as a downloadable PDF.

By examining the iPhone SDK Agreement, Apple’s End User License Agreement, and federal copyright and trademark registration, this article provides an introductory overview of the common legal issues surrounding iPhone Application development, and the measures developers can adopt to minimize liability and maximize protection of their intellectual property rights.

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CosmoPod Safari extension update sports new QT movies interpreter

Posted by | Mar 20, 2010 | , |

Cocoamug Software, developers and publishers of great Mac software, has released CosmoPod 4.3 (http://www.cocoamug.com/cosmopod/index.html), an update of the Safari extension that lets you download Flash videos from web sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.

The upgrade sports a new QuickTime movies interpreter that just works with tutorial movies and trailers from Apple. Also, the CosmoPod toolbar button now features a menu.

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