What good is an OS update without some software that can take full advantage of all its fancy new features? Naturally, Apple’s got your back, and today you’ll be getting some spiffy new versions of iTunes and iWork to compliment that fearsome Lion upgrade. iTunes 10.4 finally ushers the music management app into the 64-bit era, and adds support for OS X 10.7′s full-screen windows. The iWork Update 6 also brings along the distraction-free functionality, as well as resume, auto-save, and versioning for all your important docs. Not everyone is seeing the updates just yet, so be patient, it shouldn’t be much longer before you’re interrupted by that slightly annoying, but oh so satisfying, Software Update window.

We’ve heard it before, and we’ll have to report again. It seemed like the Chipzilla will continue to steamroll to infinity and beyond, leaving behind arch-rival AMD yet again. the chip maker’s once again reporting record revenues, reaching a whopping $13.1 billion in Q2 2011. If you’re keeping track, that’s up $2.3 billion, or 22 percent, from Q2 2010, and bests last quarter’s earnings of $12.9 billion by 2 percent. Net income was up 10 percent year-over-year, but down three percent from last quarter, ringing in at $3.2 billion. As Intel humbly points out, this is the outfit’s fifth consecutive quarter of record revenue, and Intel probably has Apple to thank for. As Apple had just refreshed some of its new Mac products with more Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt chips, I guess we’ll continue to see Intel steamrolling the next quarter.

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There’s still no word as to when it might actually land in some phones, but it looks like glasses-free 3D could soon see some improvements courtesy of Hitachi’s latest 4.5-inch IPS display. Not only does it boast a high 1280 x 720 resolution, but it uses a less common lenticular lens approach instead of the parallax barrier method used by the likes of the Nintendo 3DS and HTC EVO 3D. According to Hitachi, that allows for some much 3D brighter images than other displays (470 cd/m2, specifically), and images that are actually brighter in 3D mode than in 2D mode. Here’s hoping Hitachi shows off a bit more than the image above before too long.

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Designer Roy Prince has created quite an impressive electric bicycle. The eCortina v2 hybrid combines the best of traditional electric bicycle features: an electric motor that is capable of powering a bike by itself, and electric motor augmented pedaling. Utilizing a dual drive system, the versatile eCortina hybrid allows the rider to pedal by himself, not pedal at all or pedal with the assistance of the motor.

Beginning its life as a standard Cortina Triton DS mountain bike, the bike was upgraded by adding an additional motor, radio controllers and two packs of lithium-polymer batteries. The performance and range statistics are still being worked out but Prince estimates that the bicycle should be capable of traveling 15 miles on a single charge, assuming there are mild riding conditions and some pedaling involved.

Although it isn’t the fastest e-bike in existence, the eCortina hybrid can reach an impressive 45mph on the motor alone. But with a weight that barely falls under 60 lbs, the eCortina hybrid isn’t exactly as lightweight and portable as standard bicycles.

The FBI announced that it has arrested 16 people, 14 of which are believed to belong to the hacker network Anonymous.

Four additional took place in The Netherlands and in Great Britain. The arrests in the U.S. are the result of a total of 35 search warrants in New York, California, Florida and Nevada, the FBI said.

However, the arrests are not tied to the recent wave of attacks, but to hacking activities that were launched in support of Wikileaks, and apparently especially the DDoS attack against PayPal following their decision not to forward donation to Wikileaks in December 2010. There have been few details, but the FBI said that one 21-year old hacker broke into a web server of InfraGard and another 21-year-old hacker broke into a server of his employer, AT&T, and downloaded thousands of files. All of those files were later published by LulzSec.

The age of the arrested hackers ranges from 20 to 42 years. All are facing up to 10 years in jail and fines up to $250,000 each.

The four arrested hackers in The Netherlands are aged 17 to 35 and are suspected to be members of the hacker group AntiSec NL, which is considered to be part of Anonymous.

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Market research firm IHS believes that Intel’s 30-year processor dominance in notebooks may get serious competition from ARM. By 2015, ARM will have captured a notebook share of 23%, IHS predicts.

“Starting in 1981, when IBM first created its original PC based on Intel’s 8088 microprocessor, the X86 architecture has dominated the PC market,” said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst of computer platforms for IHS. “Over the next generation, billions of PCs were shipped based on X86 microprocessors supplied by Intel and assorted rivals – mainly AMD. However, the days of X86’s unchallenged domination are coming to an end as Windows 8 opens the door for the use of the ARM processor, which already has achieved enormous popularity in the mobile phone and tablet worlds.”

By 2015, ARM notebook shipments will hit 74 million units, up from an estimated 7.6 million in 2012, according to IHS. Windows 8 is predicted to be the major driver of ARM notebook sales. Microsoft announced last January that Windows 8 will also be running on ARM systems. IHS believes that ARM will be most successful in the value notebook space and devices that cost less than $700. ARM chip suppliers will include Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

The company said that it noticed unusual behaviour on its servers and was able to trace it back to malicious software activity and malware that was installed on client PCs. Users with infected PCs now see a prominent warning indicating that their PC houses an unwelcome guest.

Google said that computers infected with the malware wills end traffic to Google through proxies. The company did not provide details about the malware, but noted that it may have installed on PCs via fake antivirus software promotions, which have circulating on the Internet for several months. Google said that it estimates about a “couple million” of PCs to be infected and that “hundreds of thousands” of users have been warned.

The company also said that users should be careful about malware authors copying Google’s warning window and tricking them into further malware downloads.

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