Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 21, 2011 at 11:06 am PT
The hacking group Anonymous raised eyebrows today for its “daring hacker raid” on the servers of NATO. What did it take? A bunch of documents that so far seem, well, boring, really.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on July 15, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT
Responding to
an alert issued last week by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, Apple has patched a potentially dangerous PDF-related security vulnerability in MobileSafari.
This morning the company issued iOS 4.3.4, an incremental update that corrects a flaw that could have been exploited by a malicious PDF file.
Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 4:55 pm PT
Earlier today, Yahoo reported its first-quarter earnings, which showed revenue and earnings declines, which the Silicon Valley Internet portal said was due to its search and advertising partnership with Microsoft.
Here’s more deets to peruse and numbers to crunch–in order to figure out whether to blame Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer or not.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 16, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT
A brief primer on how to get such documents into and out of an iPad, and how to view, edit and create them on the tablet.
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Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm PT
It’s tax season, which means cyber-thieves are trawling the Web and sending counterfeit email in the hopes of snaring your personal tax data. And they’ve created websites with reasonable-seeming addresses and legitimate-seeming emails in order to lure unsuspecting citizens into clicking on the wrong link or downloading a virus-laden PDF.
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Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 19, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Adobe Systems on Monday unveiled the latest version of its Acrobat suite of software for creating and viewing PDF files, the company’s latest move to bolster its influence over the popular document format and boost revenue from program sales and upgrades.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 8, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
If you’re the kind of person who refuses to pay paper-and-ink prices for digital goods, then this one isn’t for you. But none of the iPad magazines are. Meantime, this one’s pretty slick.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 15, 2010 at 6:04 pm PT
The iPad offers a wide selection of different e-reading apps. None is substantially better than the other, but together they enhance the experience of reading e-books.
