Apple has launched a lawsuit against Samsung in the UK, which marks the latest in a long line of court cases between the two electrical giants. Apple filed the court order this week, according to ZDNet, which brings the total number of patent suits the companies have between them to 20. While this latest court shenanigan is about potential patent infringement, so far the exact patents it refers to are unknown. Samsung said that the lawsuit was a countersuit filed against them for its original lawsuit it took out against Apple in June of this year. Samsung V Apple: take 20 The situation between [...]

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A scareware programme known as ‘Mac Defender’ is currently causing an increasing number of Mac users woe by demanding payment to remove viruses it claims to have found on their machines. The programme appears to automatically download to unprotected machines, exploiting the default ‘open files after download’ setting of most web browsers. Although the user must provide an administrator name and password to install the bogus software, a ‘significant number’ of users seem to have done just that. The software then autoruns, makes out like its scanning [...]

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