> Apple makes big improvements in iOS management tools for enterprise and education TechCrunch Apple delivered the final security update for Snow Leopard in September 2013." Computerworld Snow Leopard was also ignored in December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.10, the most-current Apple browser for the OS. Apple provided Snow Leopard security updates for slightly more than four years, just four months shy of the record set by Tiger (OS X 10.4), which received its final fixes in September 2009. As Apple issued an update for Mavericks, or OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7), Apple had nothing for Snow Leopard or its owners yesterday. > LEFT OUT IN THE SNOW: Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks, by Gregg Keizer: "Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system. > Welcome to Googletown Mountain View, Calif. > Mountain View City Council inks deal with Google for new Wi-Fi network San Jose Mercury News > Google announces Project Ara developers' conference, taking place online via live webstream April 15-16 Android Police It's Project Ara, which aims to reinvent the smartphone by breaking it down into modules that can be assembled and customized in a limitless number of configurations." Time Among the ATAP initiatives that have been announced, one in particular is quintessentially Google-y. It turned out that Google was holding onto one organization within Motorola: the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group. Thus concluded the company's brief, unprofitable foray into smartphone hardware, which began when it revealed plans to acquire Motorola Mobility in August, 2011. > COMING ATTRACTIONS: Project Ara: Inside Google's bold gambit to make smartphones modular, by Harry McCracken: "On January 29, Google announced that it had agreed to sell Motorola, its phone-manufacturing business, to Chinese electronics giant Lenovo. Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription.
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