Apple’s massive data center in North Carolina will come online early next year, Apple execs said during an analyst conference call on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s on-schedule,” said Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer. “We expect it completed by the end of the calendar year.” The $1 billion center is as big as the world’s biggest data...
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The number of Israelis whose personal information was stolen by Turkish Internet hackers has risen to at least 100,000, Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday. Erez Wolf, an Israeli blogger who operates We-CMS website, reported Friday that tens of thousands of e-mail addresses, passwords and personal details of Israeli web surfers are in the hands of...
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THE Internet is a Soviet bread line. Remember those lines? Back when commissars commanded the Soviet Union’s economy like Knute commanding the tides, people would wait for hours in long queues for free bread. Although the bread was free, people paid for it with their time. To economists, the long lines were a real-life...
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SHANGHAI — Google said Friday that its license to operate in China had been renewed, a surprise announcement that ended weeks of speculation over whether the Internet giant would be forced to abandon the world’s single largest market of online users. The renewal had been in doubt in recent days, as the existing license...
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ONE in 10 Australian internet users – more than 1.3 million people – lost an average of $1000 each to cyber criminals in the past 12 months. Crooks used online identity fraud to fleece victims of $1.286 billion in the past year, the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer compiled by Galaxy Research revealed. More than...
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Apple has posted the full video of Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC yesterday. It’s worth watching for a few highlights. Look out for the iPhone 4 announcement at around 30 min (“Stop me if you’ve already seen this…”), about the retina display (“Once you’ve used a retina, you’ll never go back”) at around 38...
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Lord of the Rings Online will become a free-to-play game this fall as its new owner launches a major upgrade. The move is another validation of the free-to-play business model, where gamers can play for free and pay real money for virtual goods such as better weapons or decorative gear for their game characters....
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When adults talk about personal privacy on sites like Facebook, someone is bound to contend that that young people are too self-absorbed, or too naive to care about securing personal information that’s stored in various places stored online. Well, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, that person is...
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When you access your bank account online you probably don’t think that at that exact moment there may be a hacker, somewhere in the world, trying to steal your bank information and your money. Your bank offers secure online banking, so why should you worry, right? Despite banks’ efforts to protect accounts from the...
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Some officials and computer security companies are arguing that the World Wide Web is battlefield in a “cyberwar” that has armies of hackers stealing online secrets and using the Internet to attack the mainframe of many real world companies. However, some security analysts countered that image saying this week at a conference that “cyberwarfare”...
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When I first heard about this, I wanted to believe it was about teeth. Mine were still chattering from a piece of research performed by the University of Iowa that suggested that young gamers enjoyed more cavities. I experienced a severe attack of lockjaw, however, at the news that Korea–that’s the nice Korea without...
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