appleinsider.com - 1/16/2009
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In addition to the benefits detailed in previous articles in this series, the move to 64-bits in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will enhance Apple's efforts to secure its operating system.
macrumors.com - 1/14/2009
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macrumors.com —
Last year, Apple announced that they will be
releasing the next major revision of Mac OS X...
(10.6 Snow Leopard) in 2009. The focus of Snow Leopard has been on performance and quality of the underlying codebase rather than introducing new end-user f...
(more)
Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying 'Marble' User Interface?
appleinsider.com - 1/10/2009
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appleinsider.com —
On the heels of announcing its plans to
bail on Macworld Expo next year, Apple will be...
instead attending the more generic Consumer Electronics Show in 2010, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Source: Apple plans to attend CES in 2010
neowin.net - 1/19/2009
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neowin.net —
Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile
services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona...
next month. The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple's MobileMe service. Microsoft announced the ...
(more)
Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month
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Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard security enhanced with 64-bit goodness
MacDailyNews —
... all of the frameworks, dylibs, and bundles needed by a process) in the same known location, making it relatively trivial to bypass the existing ASLR," McLean reports. "With the much larger address space available to 64-bit binaries, Snow Leopard's ASLR will make it possible to hide the location of loaded code like a needle in a haystack, thwarting the efforts of malicious attackers to maintain predictable targets for controlling the code and data loaded into memory." Full article here .
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