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<a href="/article/9738"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9738', 'show')">Why I Like the Eye-Fi Explore Wireless SD Card</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9738" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9738">While our fearless leader Adam Engst despises his Eye-Fi Share, I've grown to like, if not quite love, my Eye-Fi Explore, an SD storage and Wi-Fi card that tags photos with locations and uploads at some hotspots.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9736"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9736', 'show')">Apple's Former Top Lawyer Settles Options Charges</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9736" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9736">Nancy Heinen, once Apple's general counsel, will pay $2.2 million to settle charges raised over Apple's handling of backdated stock options. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 14 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9730"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9730', 'show')">Gasseé Says Apple Played Chicken with MobileMe Launch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9730">No one had the guts to tell their bosses - or Jobs, the boss of all bosses - that MobileMe couldn't execute argues former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gasseé.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 12 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9723"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9723', 'show')">Sky Dayton Steps Down from EarthLink</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9723" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9723">Sky Dayton leaves EarthLink, the company he founded 14 years ago as one of the first providers of Internet service to the masses.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 07 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9720"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9720', 'show')">Apple Finally Fixes DNS Flaw and ARDAgent Vulnerability</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9720" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9720">Install Security Update 2008-005 now! Apple has finally released a security fix for a serious DNS flaw that's being exploited in the wild. The update also includes fixes for other serious vulnerabilities.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> and <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9721"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9721', 'show')">DNS Clients Have Small Vector of Risk after Patch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9721" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9721">The SANS Institute finds that Apple's patch for a flaw in the DNS protocol doesn't fix client resolver software, leaving Macs vulnerable to a far-less-likely outcome.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9714"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9714', 'show')">Secure Your DNS Since Apple Hasn't</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9714" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9714">You can update your Mac's flawed DNS software in advance of Apple releasing a critical, necessary, and overdue fix. But do so at your own risk. (This article is now obsolete.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9715"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9715', 'show')">Apple Claims MobileMe Mail Fully Restored</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9715" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9715">Apple says that its MobileMe mail outage for 1 percent of users has been resolved, and archived messages restored.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 30 Jul 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9710" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9710">Google at last enables always-on security for its Gmail service, while also revealing the locations from which your account has been accessed recently.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9709"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9709', 'show')">MobileMe Status Page Promises Updates, But Tone Rings Flat</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9709" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9709">Apple's veil of secrecy remains largely intact in a non-apology that provides information for MobileMe users whose stored email is unavailable. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 26 Jul 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9704"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9704', 'show')">MobileMe Repairs Itself for Little Old Me</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9704" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9704">Apple tweaks something and my home Address Book starts to sync.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9706"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9706', 'show')">Apple Fails to Patch Critical Exploited DNS Flaw</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9706" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9706">Apple has made its biggest security stumble ever by not releasing a necessary patch for a serious DNS exploit that allows any domain name to be redirected to any IP address.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Rich%20Mogull">Rich Mogull</a> and <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 24 Jul 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9699"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9699', 'show')">Apple Gains Larger Slice of Computer Sales </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9699" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9699">Apple sold 30 to 40 percent more computers in the second quarter of 2008 than in the previous year, becoming third largest seller of computers in the United States.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9695"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9695', 'show')">MobileMea Culpa: Apple Apologizes and Explains Tiger Situation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9695" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9695">The MobileMe transition didn't go smoothly, and Apple admits as such in an email to its subscribers. Money talks, so Apple's adding 30 days to all subscriptions and trials as part of the apology. Plus, they won't call their desktop sync software "push" until it really pushes changes.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9689"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9689', 'show')">MobileMe Fails to Launch Well, But Finally Launches </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9689" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9689">Apple biffs its transition from .Mac to MobileMe, with the Web interface mostly dead for two days. They planned this wrong from the start, and botched a difficult move. But it eventually kicked into gear.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 12 Jul 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9687"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9687', 'show')">Backdating Investigation on Apple Shares Ends</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9687" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9687">The Justice Department reportedly ends its criminal investigation into Apple's stock backdating affair. A civil action by the SEC remains against a former executive.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9684"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9684', 'show')">MSN Music Doesn't Kill Future Playability of Purchased Tracks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9684" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9684">Microsoft decides to continue allowing music purchased from its MSN Music store to be transferred among legitimate machines until 2011.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9685" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9685">Boingo's new application simplifies logging into their meta-networks of 60,000 U.S. hotpots and 100,000 international hotspots, all for flat monthly rates.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9680"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9680', 'show')">Current iPhones Keep Cheaper Plan on Reactivation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9680" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9680">Sell or give away your 2G iPhone, and the new owner can still get a 2G pricing plan. They won't have to pay the higher rate for 3G service without being able to use the higher speed.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9674"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9674', 'show')">Microsoft Needs to Empty Windows Trash, Reboot</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9674" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9674">Mr. Ballmer, tear down this operating system! Seriously: you have virtualization software. Vista is bloated, but not bad. Don't make Windows 7 continue to carry the water for 15 years of old, sometimes bad decisions. Just a suggestion.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 Jun 2008</div></div>
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