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Chinese Authorities Close Two Fake Apple Stores Over Permit Issues
Last week, we covered the story of fake Apple retail stores popping up in China and noted a follow-up report from The Wall Street Journal in which employees of the stores shared their thoughts about simply wanting to provide the highest levels of service to their customers. 
Fake Apple retail store in Kunming, China
Reuters now reports that officials in the city of Kunming where the fake Apple stores were publicized have discovered five such stores and have shut down two of them. The shutdowns were due to a lack of proper permits, however, rather than for any sort of infringement of fraud related to mimicking Apple's store designs as investigations on that front continue.
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Reuters now reports that officials in the city of Kunming where the fake Apple stores were publicized have discovered five such stores and have shut down two of them. The shutdowns were due to a lack of proper permits, however, rather than for any sort of infringement of fraud related to mimicking Apple's store designs as investigations on that front continue.
"Media should not misunderstand the situation and jump to conclusions. Some overseas media has made it appear the stores sold fake Apple products," said Chang Puyun, spokesman of Kunming government's business bureau. "China has taken great steps to enforce intellectual property rights and the stores weren't selling fake products." Officials are investigating whether Apple had applied with the Chinese government to have its store design and layout protected by law, Chang added.The report notes that Chinese law prohibits companies from copying the "look and feel" of other stores but that enforcement of those laws is "often spotty". Many customers of the stores in question have expressed outrage over the news, feeling that they had been misled into thinking that the stores were genuine Apple-run shops and worrying that they had been sold fake products. Apple has of course been making a significant effort at penetrating the Chinese market, having opened four large retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai and planning to open several dozen more stores there. During last week's earnings conference call, Apple executives noted that the company's sales in "greater China" totaled $3.8 billion for the quarter, six times that of the year-ago quarter.
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Latest iMac Looks Great, Runs Faster
Computerworld reviewer Michael deAgonia calls the new 27-inch
iMac ?a thoroughly modern all-in-one computer, with a sharp, bright screen that?s perfect for editing movies, organizing/editing photos, watching streaming video or making your own presentations.? Citing its minimalist design, enhanced performance from Sandy Bridge processors and AMD graphics chips, and the ?very important addition? of Thunderbolt data transfer capabilities, deAgonia concludes: ?Apple has delivered a solid update to what was already a popular and successful line.?
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217955/Apple_s_latest_iMac_looks_great_even_faster
Security firm extracts Mac OS user login passwords over FireWire
OMG. Lock up your Mac now! Security firm Passware sent out a PR blast this morning noting that their $995 application Passware Kit Forensic v11 can retrieve Mac OS user login passwords, and they're saying that this "proves Mac OS Lion insecure."
The expensive app, which Passware will happily sell you for all of your forensic and password stealing needs, is used to connect a Windows machine running the software to a Mac via a FireWire connection. It can apparently "capture live Mac memory" and extracts passwords regardless of the strength of your password or use of FileVault encryption.
While Passware Kit Forensic could be extremely useful for law-enforcement and government officials, as well as network administrators in enterprises, it doesn't seem likely that a common criminal is going to purchase Passware Kit Forensic when they're much more likely to want to wipe the hard drive and sell a stolen Mac for fast cash.
Where this is a bit scary is in industrial or governmental espionage. Those are the situations where a thousand-dollar app would be chump change and the information that's stolen could make or lose billions of dollars. In those cases, Passware's president Dimitry Sumin notes "it is important to ensure physical security of the computer. One might also consider using additional encryption software."
As for the rest of us with information that isn't too important? There's an easy way to keep yourself safe -- just turn off your computer when it's not in use instead of putting it to sleep, and disable the Automatic Login setting. By doing this, passwords aren't present in memory and can't be recovered using Passware's software.
It's interesting that Passware didn't headline their press release with "Passware Proves Windows 7 Insecure..." since the same software easily retrieves passwords from that commonly used OS.
Security firm extracts Mac OS user login passwords over FireWire originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/26/security-firm-extracts-mac-os-user-login-passwords-over-firewire/
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Latest iMac Looks Great, Runs Faster
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Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217955/Apple_s_latest_iMac_looks_great_even_faster
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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me fine-tune session window restores
Dear Aunt TUAW,
So far I love the Lion with one exception. Users should be able to toggle "resume" on and off per app. Love it when I'm reopening Pages but hate it when I'm reopening Safari.
I tried to send feedback directly to Apple by utilizing my Apple Customer Pulse invitation, except that since getting my invite to participate the service has been completely silent and the website shows a blank default page with no log-in. Curious.
Can you help, Auntie?
Your loving nephew,
Jeff
Dear Jeff,
Auntie will certainly try. The store-windows-on-suspend behavior is normally controlled in System Preferences > General Settings using the Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps preference.
This pref translates into a global preference called NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows. When enabled, Lion attempts to restore windows to their previous positions and their most recent contents. The preference is stored into .GlobalPreferences.plist. (Notice that first period? It makes it invisible.)
What's interesting is that Lion does respect this preference on a per-app basis even though there's no such functionality built into preferences or into apps. The NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows preference can be used in application user defaults files, which are found in your home Library/Preferences folder.
Auntie put together an application (the "Resuminator"; windows won't be back) to help you with this, which you can download here. When run, you can select an application and override resume for just that application.
Hugs,
Auntie T.
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me fine-tune session window restores originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/26/dear-aunt-tuaw-help-me-fine-tune-session-window-restores/
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