Ian Betteridge

Jef Raskin, widely regarded as the father of the Macintosh, has died at the age of 61. Raskin, who also wrote widely on human interface design, had recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a statement released by his relatives. Raskin, who died at his home in Pacifica, Calif., on Saturday night, joined Apple […]

A group of Apple resellers in conjunction with consumers have filed a 26-page class action lawsuit against the company accusing it of unlawful business practices, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and other practices illegal under consumer law. The suit was filed in San Francisco Superior Court last Thursday by two former Apple resellers, […]

LONDON—At the TypoTechnica 2005 conference Thursday, Quark Inc. gave the first look at the next version of its flagship product, QuarkXPress 7, claiming the update will be “the most significant upgrade in the products history.” In the historic surroundings of the St Bride Print Library, Scott Wieseler, product analyst in Quarks product marketing group, was […]

A French consumer organization has launched legal action against Sony and Apple, claiming that the two companies are limiting user choice by using proprietary digital rights management software systems for music downloads. The Union Fédérale des Consommateurs-Que Choisir claimed it would take legal action against the two companies after conducting interoperability tests of a selection […]

A leading anti-virus and security company has advised users of a popular Web stats logging application to update to the latest version of the software after seeing an increasing number of attempts to use a known bug to compromise servers. In a posting on the Viruslist.com Weblog on Tuesday, virus analysts from Kaspersky Lab warned […]

Apple Computer Inc. has released a security update for Mac OS X that fixes seven vulnerabilities in the operating system and its applications, including ColorSync, Mail and PHP. The problems fixed range in seriousness from a ColorSync issue that could potentially allow users to create a malformed ICC profile that would then permit the execution […]

Security company Immunity says it has found several vulnerabilities in Darwin, the implementation of Unix that underlies Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X operating system. Immunity discovered the flaws during a security audit of the source code, which Apple has made freely available under its own Apple Public Source license. The flaws, which affect versions […]

Its a truism about the computer industry that when your competitors are talking in public about how theyre not worried about you, theyre doing a lot of worrying about you in private. So perhaps Apple should take it as a huge compliment that within the space of a week, senior executives of both Dell and […]

A Pennsylvanian man has admitted sending more than 800,000 e-mails purporting to be from a charity appealing for funds for victims of the Asian tsunami—funds that would instead have ended up in his PayPal account. According to court documents, Matthew Schmeider, a 24-year old unemployed painter from Pittsburgh, admitted sending the e-mails that claimed to […]

In a bid to take advantage of the success of the iPod music player, Apple Computer Inc. is set to release a Mac retailing at under $500. A report on Mac news site Think Secret claimed that the product, code-named Q88, is expected to be announced on January 11 during Apple CEO Steve Jobs keynote […]