Hacker group, Anonymous strikes again, this time it make a big bang by hacking the email accounts of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s aides. The hacker group hacked some 78 username and password combinations for the accounts and 56 of those accounts used the password “12345”, while five others added just a “6” to that string. According to Foreign Policy, few of the emails contained incriminating info, though the media has latched onto a message sent between two press aides suggesting some advice on manipulating American audiences...
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Apple which recently accounted its highest quarterly earnings of record $46.3 billion in revenue, the company is still finding itself somewhere in reports of labor abuses among its suppliers – first NY Times reported Apple’s harsh working conditions at company’s component suppliers in China – and then followed by CNN published a video of journalist Stan Grant...
According to TechNet, the “App Economy” has created an estimated 466,000 jobs in the United States, since from the time when Apple’s iPhone was introduced. The results was revealed after the study and research conducting during the period of 90-day ending December 31, 2011, where the group identified roughly 44,000 non-duplicated ads for computer and mathematical...
According to WSJ report, Apple has reportedly asked the telecom standards body responsible for patent licensing across Europe to lay down a set of basic principles governing how companies license patents, increasingly contentious topics for rivals in the smartphone industry. WSJ reports, “In a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Apple said the telecommunications industry lacks consistent licensing schemes for the many patents necessary to make mobile devices, and offered suggestions for setting appropriate...
According to Apple Insider, a Chinese company representative is reportedly suing the iPad maker in a dispute over the “iPad trademark” and anticipates Apple will be fined with $38 million by a Beijing court over the issue. Apple, four years back, purchased the iPad trademark from the Taiwanese display manufacturer Proview Electronics for $55,000 by way of a front...
According to Reuters, the world’s largest social networking giant Facebook has promised to release more information in lieu of maintaining respect of privacy laws about the data it collects from millions of users. During the six-hour meeting with the europe-v-facebook.org group in Vienna on Monday, Facebook officials pledged more openness. The group led by Max Schrems, a law student in Vienna stated, “We have a fixed commitment that we will finally know what Facebook stores in the background that means a list of all categories of...
According to Jinghua.cn, Apple has confirmed that iPhone 4S handsets users are unable to activate their phones with the use of a China Mobile SIM card, with some suffering from a complete loss of signals and other some are unable to receive calls despite having a full signal. Publication further states, “China Mobile customer service said that a number of mobile...
According to The Independent, Britons are throwing away 17 million gadgets, including mobile phones, music players, satellite navigations and more which accounts for a total worth of £762 million (about $1.20 billion) which are uselessly binned every year. Mobile phone operator O2 states the same items would fetch an average of £43.54 if they were taken to one...
According to The Guardian, Hacker group Anonymous reportedly published the emails hacked from the law firm Puckett & Faraj representing staff sergeant Frank Wuterich, who is responsible for the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians at Haditha. The group last week reported that it has broken into the website of a law firm that represented a US Marine accused of...
Approximately 70 grass-roots groups, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, human rights groups, communities of color, and Internet companies including Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Open Congress, and Human Rights Watch, have sent an open letter to Congress asking it to put the brakes on intellectual property lawmaking in the...
