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Blitz the Flashfake Trojan from your Mac with the Kaspersky Flashfake Removal Tool

If there’s one silver lining to the cloud cast over Mac users by the recent revelation that the Flashfake Trojan has infected over 500,000 Macs worldwide, it’s surely the end to the myth that Macs are invulnerable to viruses and other malware. Seasoned Mac users will have never claimed anything different, but now there’s no [...]

Facebook buys Instagram

Facebook, the biggest social- networking service, is buying the Instagram mobile photo-sharing application for about $1 billion in cash and stock, using its biggest acquisition yet to attract users of mobile devices. The transaction is expected to close later this quarter, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook said today in a statement on its site. Facebook Chief [...]

Mozilla released BrowserQuest for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera

With a stylistic nod to the Zelda games of old, iconoclastic role-playing game  Mother 3, or 2010′s exciting Realm of the Mad God, it’s made for Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and the Opera web client using new WebSocket technology. The four browsers together account for between 45% and 60% of all online surfing, [...]