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 Apple has just announced that tickets for its next Worldwide Developer Conference event will go onsale tomorrow with developers likely to get their hands on the next innovations in iOS and OS-X. 

Malicious Flash Player content has been circulating, and Adobe has responded with an emergency security update for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and various browser systems.

File sharing service YouSendIt has expanded its roster of duties by purchasing Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds.

In a TV interview to be aired to review Tim Cook's first year in charge of Apple, he will announce that the company is bringing Mac hardware production back to the U.S.

 A month later than first promised, you can now download the new version of Apple's iTunes, with a raft of new features and improvements. 

No one else comes close as the two heavyweights for tech gadgets blow the field away with their latest figures. Apple reported its fourth-quarter iPhone 5 launch profits, but Samsung is way ahead in overall sales. 

 Google has just announced the $25 million acquisition of iOS and Mac email client Sparrow, with a view to refreshing the Gmail service. 

Here we go then, another fun joyride through the highs (if you're a developer) and lows (if you expect magical-device unveiling miracles) of an Apple Keynote, with the expected focus on new features in OS X and iOS.

 Get your Apple rumor bingo card out, as the company hosts the 2012 developer event. Offering the latest developer news, tools and sessions for iOS and OS X, all eyes will be on the updates for iPhone and iPad. Here's what to expect.

Quiet enough week with the long weekend, but even still a few bones to pick at. Box has upgraded the administrative functions making it easier to use, IGC has upgraded Brava for Documentum, Nuance has also upgraded its PDF converter, while Enolsoft has released a PDF Converter for Mac.

This week, Microsoft offered us a new definition of pulling speed when it took Office for Mac SP2 off the shelves, SharePoint and DotNetNuke get close, SpringCM joins the mobile party, Perceptive also gets mobile with Interact and Adobe releases CS6/Extended.

Skype 5.6 for Mac includes automatic updates, an improved user interface, full-screen mode in OS X Lion, the ability to delete conversations and an awesome beta feature that connects Skype users to their Facebook accounts.

Apple's Thursday event won't be a show-stopper in the usual iDevice sense, but early chatter suggests that the company may be about to revolutionize ebook creation. It could achieve this by launching a Garageband-like app to bring content-rich, Web-enabled, digital book creation tools to everyone.

While everyone else milled around at CES waving new products left, right and center, Apple is quietly getting on with the business of iPad and iPhone development. It also managed to sell rather more Macs than experts predicted.

Google quietly rolled out the latest Chrome update over the weekend. Most Windows users won't notice the update, although Mac OS X Lion users will be pleased with a few UI optimizations for the Mac version. This update will be more exciting for developers, though, as Google has already activated Native Client application support through sandbox.