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Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released an update for its Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.
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Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released an update for its Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.
Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.
Security vendor Symantec has once again pointed the knife at Apple Macintosh users.
Apple has confirmed that it will release of the "first major upgrade" to Mac OS X next week. The date temporarily disappeared from the technology media's collective radar after the company cancelled Apple Expo in Paris--the event where Apple CEO Steve Jobs was expected to announce the upgrade-- in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
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