Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

Apple Thursday evening released a new update to Safari for Mac and Windows, with the latest browser version improving its performance, stability and security.

A comparison of streaming video via the Adobe Flash and HTML5 formats with numerous different browsers on both Mac and Windows produced wildly different results based on the operating system and browser, making neither a clear winner.

Similar to how Apple’s iPod touch came from the development of the iPhone, Microsoft reportedly plans to base the follow-up to its Zune HD media player on the Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system.

It really seems that NVIDIA is experiencing the darkest period of its history. After numerous issues and problems, the latest one being the delay for the production and the availability of Fermi-based graphic cards, a new story will again darken even further the image of the company.The last version of drives released last week for [...]

The Mac community of gamers is getting excited as Valve, the famous game editor on Windows (for Half-life and counter-strike for examples) started a “teasing” campaign as the company will release games on Mac OS X in a near future. It seems quite clear now that Valve will be porting “Portal” on Mac OS X. [...]

A Trojan horse (Windows) was detected in the software accompanying a USB Energizer DUO charger of batteries. It opens a port on the affected PC that makes it possible to be able to reach it easily from outside. Even though it is impossible not to throw the stone at the company that did not make any [...]

Six months after Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary suffered a massive cloud services failure that lost data for its T-Mobile Sidekick users, new information has surfaced on the group’s Pink Project, rumored to produce the “Zune phone” in parallel to the Windows Phone 7 Series.

New statistics released this week show that the market share of Mac OS X in Web use has grown by 29.4 percent in the last year, while Windows has decreased 3.8 percent.

For some days, a program designed to test Starcraft II on the PC has been released. There is no equivalent program on the Mac. The site PC Games Hardware tested this beta on many processors, all running under Windows. Even though it is not possible to directly transpose these results to a Mac, they already give an [...]

Google announced that some old browsers will not be supported by YouTube in a near future: Explorer 6 for Windows, but also Firefox 3.0 and Safari 3.0. TEchnically, it will only be a problem for customers still running on old operation system. We should also indicate that it does not mean that such customers will not [...]

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