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Mac News: Lightning Port: Clever Design, Hard to Produce Apple’s new Lightning port, currently shipping on the iPhone 5, utilizes the dynamic assignment of the pins to enable reversible use, or the ability to be plugged in regardless of which side is facing up. While this is an extremely useful feature – easier to plug in, lasts longer, less prone to pins breaking – it does have one major downside:…

Mac News: Retina Display For 13.3-Inch MacBook Pro Is Now In Production From Sharp, LGD And Samsung    When Apple announced the Retina MacBook Pro, it was only announced in 15-inch version.  The 17-inch version is now discontinued by Apple and is no longer being produced.  However, the popular 13.3-inch version of the Retina MacBook Pro was left out at the time by Apple.  This left many folks wondering as…

Mac News: How to Enable “Save As” functionality in Mountain Lion OS X    Are you one of those who have not liked the fact that ‘Save As’ functionality is no more there in OS X Mountain Lion? And are you one of those who secretly wish it back there in this operating system? If your answer to these questions is a ‘Yes’, then we have a good news for…

Mac News: Kodak Loses Patent Case Against Apple, RIM    Eastman Kodak Co. has lost a patent case against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., dealing a blow to the onetime film giant’s efforts to raise billions of dollars by selling off its intellectual property.     Read full story => WSJ Technology News: Cloud control is key to the future of the internet    Manuel Castells, the leading…

Mac News: Multi-platform backdoor malware targets Windows, Mac and Linux users    Most of the malware that we analyse inside SophosLabs targets Windows users. And that makes sense for the cybercriminals – after all, more people are using Windows as their desktop operating system than any other platform. But if malicious hackers want to go the extra mile, and maximise their chances of infecting more people’s computers, they might well try to…