Due to a reporting error the story “The world’s most unusual outsourcing destination” posted Friday misstated the name of a company and the location of its headquarters.
FBI investigating iPad e-mail leaks
June 11th, 2010
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses.
Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a Web application on AT&T’s Web site that returned an iPad user’s e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries. After writing an automated script to repeatedly query the site, they downloaded the addresses, and then handed them over to Gawker.com.
‘Brute force’ script snatched iPad e-mail addresses
June 10th, 2010
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The harvesting of over 100,000 iPad 3G owners’ e-mail addresses was not a hack or a classic data breach, but a brute force attack of a minor feature AT&T offered to Apple customers, experts said Wednesday.
China Unicom in talks with Taiwanese operator on app store
June 9th, 2010
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China’s second-largest mobile phone service provider, China Unicom, is in discussions with Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom to work together on their app stores.
Chinese government whitepaper reaffirms Internet policies
June 8th, 2010
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A Chinese government whitepaper released on Tuesday praised the Internet for improving access to information and giving citizens a way to better oversee the behavior government officials, but reaffirmed the need for policies aimed at controlling access to online content.
Group lists top five social media risks for businesses
June 8th, 2010
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As businesses increasingly try to figure out how to use social networking tools in the enterprise , an IT governance group has released a ranking of the top five risks social media poses to companies.
LTE continues to gain momentum, says GSA
June 7th, 2010
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Due to a reporting error, the story “LTE continues to gain momentum, says GSA,” posted Monday, misstated in the second paragraph the increase in LTE network deployments since April 7. The number of new deployments is 16. The story has been corrected on the wire and the second paragraph now reads:
Apple WWDC vs. Microsoft TechEd
June 6th, 2010
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Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft and Apple. The two most valuable tech companies in the world will host competing conferences next week for IT pros and developers. While Apple gets its iGroove on with the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Microsoft will lure techie professionals to New Orleans for TechEd.
