Over the past few weeks, we watched as the Beatles finally came to iTunes after decades of having issues with Apple. If you have been on the internet you would also have watched as the iTunes downloads got to the 2 million mark and over shot it. What left most people wondering was how the [...]
The Twitter account of the disaster management adviser to the President of Indonesia was hacked last week with a post announcing a Tsunami. This caused a lot of panic to a country that has already suffered one Tsunami which resulted in the loss of lives. This is a prime example of how the hacking of [...]
The Swedish Court of Appeal upheld the guilty verdict of the Pirate Bay founders: Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Carl Lundstorm ( Gottfrid Svartholm was not in court so his appeal will be deliberated on at a future date). They had previously been found guilty of copyright infringement and had been sentenced to a jail [...]
Irritated at Facebookâs less than popular privacy issues, a group of college students came up with the idea to create an opensource alternative to Facebook and were able to raise $200,000 for their startup instead of their initial projection of $10,000 from Kickstarter, the crowd sourced micro funding site. Originally scheduled to launch in October, [...]
Good news for online businesses. CNET has reported that according to the market research firm ComScore, online holiday shopping is at an increase and the trend is set to continue. The first three weeks of November recorded a 13 percent gain over the amount spent in the same period last year. ComScore has forecast $32.4 [...]
