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E-mails from public overload House Web site
AP – Thu Aug 13, 11:27 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House’s primary Web site. Full Story »
Australian charged with infecting 3,000 computers
AP – Thu Aug 13, 9:22 am ET
ADELAIDE, Australia – A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday. Full Story »
Security Update 2009-004 fixes BIND vulnerability
Macworld.com – Wed Aug 12, 5:35 pm ET
With the security content of all the updates Apple has been rolling out in the last few weeks, you might have thought the tides of darkness stemmed. But hackers never sleep—or so it seems—so neither can Apple. On Wednesday, the company released Security Update 2009-004, which is recommended for all Mac OS X users. Full Story »
Microsoft, Nokia form alliance to rival RIM
Reuters – Fri Aug 14, 2:21 am ET
SEATTLE/HELSINKI (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Nokia announced an alliance on Wednesday to bring business software to smartphones and counter the dominance of Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry. Full Story »
Mac News Briefs: TLA updates Mac version of PCalc
Macworld.com – Thu Aug 13, 5:58 pm ET
Developer TLA Systems has made many improvements to the iPhone version of its PCalc calculator application. Now it’s bringing many of those changes to the Mac version of the scientific calculator. Full Story »
