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Softpedia Recommended Mac Apps of the Week – 06.09.2008

As every week goes, we have three new Mac apps for you to download and use, all free of charge. Although one of the programs showcased below has been released for quite some time, additional enhancements and tweaks have made it worthy of discussion. Read on for the details.Local Switcher – easily switch between...

6 September 2008
08:05 GMT

Nokia N96 Unboxed and Almost Reviewed

Nokia's new Nseries smartphone, the N96, which should be now in stores across Europe and some Asian countries, has appeared in an unboxing video. Moreover, a semi-review (more like a first impression) of the N96 has been spotted on the Web. Thus, if you want to know what you will get after buying ...

6 September 2008
07:58 GMT

Biggest Identity Theft Criminal Ring Charged

Eleven people that are believed to have conspired in the largest hack and identity theft in history had been charged. According to the authorities, some of the numerous counts the men were charged with are conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft. The nationality of ten out of the 11 defendants has be...

6 September 2008
07:40 GMT

Microsoft: Windows, Windows, Windows

The Windows marketing earthquake is coming, with Windows Vista, Windows Mobile and Windows Live at the epicenter. Just because Microsoft is on a brand rebuilding mission, a mission involving telling the real Windows story and the truth about the Redmond company's flagship brand and product. As early as the start...

6 September 2008
06:51 GMT

Fly's DS500 and DS400 Dual SIM Handsets Unveiled

Fly Mobile might not be among the biggest names in the handset industry, but this doesn't stop the company from releasing new products. The latest two phones to come under the Fly brand are both packing dual SIM capabilities, hence allowing users to put two SIM cards at the same time in any of them. Named Fly DS...

6 September 2008
06:50 GMT

Webcam Voyeur Spends Four Years in Prison

A 47-year-old man from Cyprus will spend four years behind bars for spying on a teenager on her webcam and threatening her. The man, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested back in 2005 for infecting the computer of a 17-year-old, at the time, with a Trojan horse, which was attached to an email the man had sent to...

6 September 2008
06:45 GMT

Blind Spot Eye Identification to Be Employed in Security Systems

According to Japanese researchers working in the field of biometrics, the current security methods are far from being safe. And we're not talking here about easily hackable passwords, but iris or fingerprint identification. As specialists claim, with a little help from technology, people could easily imitate som...

6 September 2008
06:16 GMT

Sony Ericsson TM506 Out Now in the US

Sony Ericsson TM506 has hit the shelves of T-Mobile USA, coming as T-Mo's first 3G Swedish-Japanese handset. Although on the mobile operator's official website the phone is still "coming soon," users can find it in the carrier's stores from across the US as of now. According to Tmonews, the TM506 costs...

6 September 2008
05:28 GMT

Phishers Update Their Infrastructure

The RSA FraudAction Research Labs claims that the Eastern European Rock Phish team is preparing for something big and that it is upgrading its infrastructure to integrate the Asprox botnet. According to their report, this upgrade might be the reason why its phishing activity has decreased for the past ...

6 September 2008
05:17 GMT

Leaked Information on Intel CPU Roadmap

It seems that a few more pieces of info on Intel's roadmap for the 2008-2010 timeframe have leaked to the web and, although they have not been yet officially established as accurate, some sites already jumped on publishing articles on the matter. Looking at the chip manufacturer's already confirmed plans, ...

6 September 2008
05:15 GMT

Apple Seeds New OS X 10.5.5. Build (9F32)

Apple has seeded developers with a new pre-release build of the next maintenance and security update to Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.5. Build 9F32 packs minor fixes bringing the total number of code corrections to 129, but none of the fixes address the Mail.app bug, reported as "known" in previous beta releases of OS ...

6 September 2008
05:11 GMT

15-Year-Old Charged for $250,000 Fraud Attempt

An Australian boy pleaded guilty to 33 counts of fraud. Between March 10 and July 3, the 15-year-old attempted to trick several banks into accepting fake checks. Although he was planning to gain 300,000 Australian dollars, the equivalent of 250,000 USD, fortunately for the institutions, only few of his chec...

6 September 2008
04:54 GMT

Toshiba 824T, a Phone for Japanese Dreamers

Toshiba, the giant Japanese manufacturer of electronic devices and consumer products, has recently unveiled a new mobile phone that will surely make the delight of dreamers from across Japan. Named Toshiba 824T, the  handset is a clamshell that comes in two hues of pink (Pastel Pink, Vivid Pink), Pastel Blu...

6 September 2008
04:14 GMT

ATI Radeon HD 4670 Listed at Retailers

The first Radeon HD 4670 already made its appearance on retailers' sites. The card was spotted for the first time at the Dutch retailer Komplett.nl, and it is an HIS model, featuring HIS' IceQ cooling, which seems to be a factory overclocked graphics solution, as it has the "Turbo" label on it. The board co...

6 September 2008
03:56 GMT


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