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Panda's Cloud Antivirus leaves beta behind

Seth Rosenblatt — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:30:00 PST

First introduced in beta back in April, Panda Cloud Antivirus graduates to a stable, public release and signifies a major security vendor taking aim at the freeware competition--instead of the other way around.

Sneak peek: Xobni e-mail app for BlackBerry

Jessica Dolcourt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:08:00 PST

Xobni demoed its upcoming e-mail app at BlackBerry Developer Conference.

Louvre iPhone app: Quelle horreur!

Rick Broida — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:35:00 PST

A smattering of paintings and handful of 20-second video tours are no substitute for, nor even a proper taste of, the world's largest museum. At least it's free.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

Apple plugs holes for domain spoofing, other attacks

Elinor Mills — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:43:00 PST

Security update for Mac OS X addresses 43 specific issues, including holes that could allow an attacker to take over the computer.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Paint.NET 3.5 earns Windows 7, stability fixes

Seth Rosenblatt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:58:00 PST

Photoshop-alternative Paint.NET 3.5 includes an enormous number of stability tweaks and menu adjustments, as well as a couple of new minor features and some Windows 7 love, too.

Now on Download: Bigger, better screenshots!

Greg Penhaligon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:44:00 PST

To make it easier to see what an application will look like before going to the trouble of downloading and installing it, we've made a number of improvements to the way we show screenshots on Download.

VMware elevates its desktop virtualization view

Gordon Haff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:15:00 PST

VMware View 4 is most focused on improving user experience, one of the things that has limited the appeal of desktop virtualization in the past.

Originally posted at The Pervasive Data Center

After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges

Stephen Shankland — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST

Mozilla helped reshape the Web since releasing Firefox 1.0 five years ago. Now it's got a reawakened Microsoft and Google Chrome to reckon with.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Shazam iPhone app gets premium Encore

Jessica Dolcourt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST

Shazam Encore for the iPhone and iPod Touch is a new premium song discovery app that adds music recommendations and search.

Review redux: Flixster movie app for BlackBerry

Jessica Dolcourt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:16:00 PST

Taking a closer look at Flixster's updated movie preview and showtime app for BlackBerry.

Originally posted at Crave