Apple loses one, gains one in employee shuffle
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pLong-time Apple executive Pablo Calamera has left Apple in favor of a CTO gig elsewhere, while former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder started work at 1 Infinite Loop on Monday. Pablo will become the CTO at Thumbplay, a company specializing in ringtones and streaming music, while Snyder will work as a senior security product manager at Apple./p
pAccording to the Thumbplay announcement, Calamera served as director of MobileMe service while at Apple. Despite the service’s less-than-stellar reputation during his time there. Thumplay saw fit to scoop up Calamera. The newly branded CTO spent time at Danger Inc. and WebTV Networks, among others, before joining Apple./p
pAs noted by ema href=”http://www.pcworld.com/article/190524/exmozilla_security_chief_takes_job_at_apple.html”PC World/a/em, the Snyder hire comes on the heels of her timenbsp;managing security consultants atnbsp;Microsoft and working on Windows XP and 2003 Server. What Snyder will do at Apple remains unclear, but the two variants of Safari (Windows and Mac) or the iPhone OS seem to be likely candidates for her expertise./p
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Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share
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Firefox is on a decline. It may not be as steady as Internet Explorer’s death spiral, and it certainly has not been going on for as long, but if the last three months are any indication, Firefox will never hit that 25 percent market share mark that looked all but certain just a few short months ago. Meanwhile, Chrome is still pushing steadily forward; in fact, it was the only browser to show positive growth last month./p
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IE8, Chrome have most momentum in browser wars
Chrome is on a roll. It’s the fastest-growing browser in terms of market share we’ve seen in a long time. And its rapid growth corresponds with Internet Explorer’s steady decline. Keeping that in mind though, data from last month shows that IE8 has managed to grab 25 percent of the browser market, beating all versions of Firefox to the punch. In January 2010, only Chrome and Safari showed positive growth.
Chrome grabs market share from IE and Firefox, passes Safari
We predicted it would happen, and it finally has: Internet Explorer 8 has surpassed IE6, easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser among the tech-savvy, after passing IE7 the month before that. At the time, we also predicted that Firefox’s steady gain would result in the browser passing the 25 percent mark in 2009, but alas, that will have to wait until sometime in 2010. Instead, Chrome was the big winner this past month, stealing third place away from Safari, while Opera remains in fifth place. In December 2009, only Safari and Chrome showed positive growth.
New Mac and Linux betas have lifted Chrome to the number
New Mac and Linux betas have lifted Chrome to the number three browser spot, pushing Safari back to number four for now. We’ll have to wait until the results are in for all of December to see if Chrome can unseat Safari.
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Computerworld, Net Applications
Hands on with Mac Chrome beta: incomplete but looking good
Google has finally released Chrome, the company’s own Web browser, into beta on the Mac and Linux. The software has been in development for some time—at least since the Windows version was first released in late 2008—and is now available as a tidy package for the Mac-using masses who weren’t previously interested in digging around in build trees. Though it’s important to remember that this is still a beta (with all that entails), we came away impressed with the Mac version of Chrome.
First, a disclaimer: though some members of the staff (and, of course, many of you) have been using Chrome as a developer preview for some time, many of us have not. This includes me—I’m currently a devoted Safari 4 user, previously a rabidly devoted Firefox user. This hands-on is written from the perspective of someone who is familiar with, but otherwise new to Chrome on the Mac.
November 2009 browser stats: IE8 passes IE7
Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, and users continue to cling to older versions, but IE8 has finally surpassed IE7, and will likely pass IE6, easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser among the tech-savvy, before we see the New Year. Firefox’s steady gain continues and it will also likely hit the 25 percent mark before the end of the year. Safari remains in third place but Chrome seems to be eyeing it hungrily, leaving poor Opera in dead-last fifth place. In November, only the third-party browsers showed positive growth.
Week In Apple: Software Updates, Jailbroken IPhone Worms, And VESA
Mac users got some love from Apple this week in the form of an update to Snow Leopard, as well as one for Safari. But it’s not all good news for Apple fans–hackers are out to get jailbroken iPhone users and those running Atom-based hackintoshes will be stuck on Mac OS X 10.6.1. Read on to get the low-down.
Mac OS X 10.6.2 out now along with Leopard security update: Come and get your Snow Leopard update to 10.6.2! If you’re still on Leopard, though, security fixes are available as well.
Truly malicious iPhone malware now out in the wild: While previous “attacks” on jailbroken iPhones were benign, a variation of the same attack quietly extracts personal data from an infected device. Please, folks, change your default passwords.
Week in Apple: Software updates, jailbroken iPhone worms, and VESA
Mac users got some love from Apple this week in the form of an update to Snow Leopard, as well as one for Safari. But it’s not all good news for Apple fans–hackers are out to get jailbroken iPhone users and those running Atom-based hackintoshes will be stuck on Mac OS X 10.6.1. Read on to get the low-down.
Mac OS X 10.6.2 out now along with Leopard security update: Come and get your Snow Leopard update to 10.6.2! If you’re still on Leopard, though, security fixes are available as well.
Truly malicious iPhone malware now out in the wild: While previous “attacks” on jailbroken iPhones were benign, a variation of the same attack quietly extracts personal data from an infected device. Please, folks, change your default passwords.
Safari 4.0.4 serves up security and performance fixes
Apple released a minor point release of its Safari Web browser this afternoon. The update mostly addresses a few security issues, though it does have a few performance and stability improvements.
To start, Safari 4.0.4 includes six separate security patches. Three are for issues with WebKit, the rendering engine that powers Safari—one for HTML5 media object handling, FTP server connections (on Windows), and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) implementation, all of which had potential security vulnerabilities. The Safari application itself had an issue with the “open in new window/tab” contextual menu items that could result in loading local HTML files, which could then lead to possible “disclosure of sensitive information.” Issues with libxml2 and Color-Sync could also allow specially crafted files to lead to “unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.”
In addition to the security fixes, the update also includes a few performance improvements. Web applications rely on JavaScript for a lot of functionality, so JavaScript performance improvements in Safari 4.0.4 are always welcome. Of note for heavy users (like those of us in Orbiting HQ) are performance improvements when searching through “a large number of history items.” There are also non-specific stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field, and Yahoo Mail.
Safari 4.0.4 is available via Software Update for both Mac and Windows. A direct download is also available on Apple’s Safari Download page.
