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USB 3.0, as everyone knows by now, is the superior standard when it comes to data transfer using this particular standard. Being the most recent version of the USB data/power specification, it is way faster than what USB 2.0 is able to offer. After all, USB 3.0 compatible devices are said to be able to hit speeds of up to 5Gbps, and the future might usher in an age where the power transfer rates is capable of hitting a cool 100 watts of juice. It makes perfect sense that the USB 3.0 specification is still evolving at this point of time, so the next generation version of USB 3.0 could soon make the jump to 100 watts from the current “capacity” of 4.5 Watts.

The recently announced standard is able to offer half a dozen profiles, where they deliver various different amounts of power, depending on what a device needs at this point in time. The profiles will range from as low as 5V/2A, and it will go all the way up to 100 Watts of power at 12V or 20V and 5A — which in theory, is more than enough to juice up a notebook. Could this usher in the end of the proprietary A/C adapter age?

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Kouziro Frontier has dropped a new desktop PC into the market. Called the FRS115BS/DS, the system is powered by a 2.40GHz Intel Celeron G530 processor and features an Intel H61 Express Chipset, an Intel HD graphics, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (SP1) OS. The FRS115BS/DS retails for just 44,800 Yen (about $574). [Product Page]

Mac users who are now enjoying the latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, might have also noticed that Safari 6.0 for Mac has also rolled out. In fact, it seemed that Safari for Windows had gone missing entirely from Apple’s site. There is still a direct download which you are able to take advantage of, but this move had led many to speculate that Safari for Windows might have been on its last legs all this while, and the browser itself has been gracefully “put to sleep”, so to speak.

There is also this particular page which was put up by Apple that detailed Safari 5.1.7 for Windows, making us scratch our heads simply because version 5.1.7 rolled out in May this year alongside OS X 10.7.4. MacRumors noted that in the past, Apple did list Safari 5.1.7 for both Mac and Windows on the same page, too. Do you think that it is time to start looking for an alternative, or are you all right with Safari for Windows where it stands at the moment?

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Yes, OS X Mountain Lion, the long awaited update to the OS X operating system platform, is now readily available over at the App Store for $20, but is everything hunky dory? Not really, as some users have already reported running into trouble when downloading this particular installer onto their Mac after purchase. There are a few errors recorded, including “This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again.”, to the ever annoying Error 100 message which is pretty vague in its description, mentioning “We could not complete your App Store request. An unknown error occurred (100).”

Fret not – these errors can definitely be fixed, taking just a few minutes of your life to rectify before everything ends up as plain sailing again. The easy way would be to quit the App Store by signing out of it, restart your Mac and login to the App Store before making another download attempt, but if this does not work, there is a more advanced way of going about it. (more…)

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It used to be that we could go for months without reading about malware or viruses for Mac computers, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be the case these days. That being said, if you’re a Mac user, there is a new trojan on the loose that you might want to take note of. Discovered by the folks at Integro, this particular trojan is dubbed Crisis and can apparently install itself onto Mac computers without any user interaction or user permissions. It will also attempt to hide itself from virus scanning software and detection applications, making this one heck of a sneaky trojan, which we guess was kind of the point to begin with.

Designed to run on OS X 10.6 and 10.7, the trojan will continue to run in the background even after rebooting the computer. It has also been reported that if the Mac computer has root access, the trojan will then attempt to install additional components that will make detection harder. According to Integro, the trojan attempts to contact a specific IP address every 5 minutes to await instructions, although at the moment the trojan has yet to be spotted in the wild. Given the sneakiness of the Crisis trojan, we’re surprised that Integro has considered it to be a low level threat, but either way you should probably avoid unsavory or suspicious websites to begin with.

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