Sunday, May 1, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 01/05/2011





Who owns your location?
Columnist Mike Elgan, fired up over location tracking on smartphones, writes an open letter to handset platform companies, carriers, app makers and the government.

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Sony's Hirai to brief on PlayStation hack on Sunday
Sony is expected to provide its most detailed update yet on Sunday on a hack that hit the PlayStation Network and the status of personal information and credit card numbers of up to 77 million customers.

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Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack
A U.S. congressional committee has asked Sony Computer Entertainment to explain several issues surrounding the massive potential leak of information on customers of its PlayStation Network.

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Did hackers really get credit card numbers from Sony?
Reports surfaced Friday that the hackers behind last week's breach of Sony's PlayStation Network obtained millions of credit card numbers, but the evidence so far appears weak.

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Facebook helps tornado victims find lost items
After a devastating round of tornadoes in the south, many people have taken to Facebook to try to find the rightful owners of what could be precious photos and documents scattered by the storms.

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Amazon cloud outage was triggered by configuration error
Amazon's detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week blames a configuration error during a network upgrade for the problem.

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Texas comptroller takes blame for major breach
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs took responsibility for a major breach of systems in her office, and outlined changes to be made to prevent similar incidents in the future.

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Reports: Apple acquires 'icloud.com' domain
Apple has purchased the domain "icloud.com," which it will use as the name of its new online music and storage locker service, several reports have claimed.

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