Apple Looking for a Replacement for CEO Cook?
According to sources on Wall Street, Apple is already quietly looking at prospects to fill CEO Tim Cook's position. Since Cook took over the reins of Apple, the stock has gone from an all-time high of $702 a share to a 52 week low of $390. Analysts have voiced concerns over stockholders movement and fears of investors prompting the speculation of a leadership change.
So unless Apple CEO Cook announces something really dramatic in new products or astronomical earnings on Tuesday, the stock will surely decline even more.
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Bitcoin's Mt. Gox Downed by DDoS Attack
Mt. Gox, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange has been under a heavily sustained DDoS attack for a good portion of today causing disruption of service and downtime. Mt. Gox has become a favorite target for Denial of Service attacks in recent months and has been affecting the fluctuating price of Bitcoin currency worldwide.
On Facebook and Twitter, the company first informed its users that it was experiencing an outage and then later followed up to confirm the source was indeed yet another DDoS attack.
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Facebook Reportedly Behind 'Project Catapult'
It appears that the mystery was solved concerning the ultra-secret facility plans in Altoona, Iowa. Facebook is reportedly the name behind the 1.4 million square foot data center that has been tentatively approved by government agencies in Iowa. Cost of the project is an estimated $1.5 Billion dollars.
The facility would be the third major data center project in Iowa, joining complexes from Google and Microsoft. It would also be Facebook's fourth such project, behind existing data facilities in Oregon, North Carolina, and Sweden.
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How a Fake Island Ended Up On Google Earth
We posted this story about a year ago concerning an island that was shown on Google Earth that just vanished. I guess the researchers in Australia really worry about things like this and finally got to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance. I'm thinking Gilligan's Island myself.
In an obituary for the island published this month, the researchers explained why the phantom landmass had been included on some maps for more than a century.
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'Cut the Rope: Time Travel' Now Available
ZeptoLap has just released Time Travel, another installment of its franchise game Cut the Rope. The game has been a favorite of mobile gamers since its debut in 2009 and has been downloaded more than 300M times. It's fun, it's cheap and it's kid safe.
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BlizzCon 2013 Tickets Go on Sale April 24th
Gamers get ready to make a dash for tickets to BlizzCon this week and be sure to dust off that wallet because as they say, it ain't cheap. The event will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California November 8-9th.
At BlizzCon, Blizzard will be hosting a whole bunch of events and activities that will show everyone a great time. Players will be able to play demos of Blizzard's latest games, participate in discussion panels with Blizzard's developers, and even watch the StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals live at the event.
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CBS Twitter Accounts Hacked by 'Pro-Damascus Group'
Last month it was the BBC that was targeted by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) and now the group has hacked the Twitter account of CBS, posting erroneous messages in the name of CBS and 60 Minutes. The hijacked accounts have been temporarily suspended until secured.
A CBS spokeswoman confirmed that the accounts had been compromised. CBS said it was working with Twitter to "resolve the issue".
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New Open Call Windows 8 Themes from Microsoft
Microsoft has released a new set of themes for Windows 8 from independent photographers all around the world participating in Microsoft's Open Call Project. Tired of your old desktop? Well get busy downloading.
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Comcast Upgrades Speeds for Xfinity Internet
For all of you Comcasters out there subscribing to Performance Xfinity plans, you just got a boost in data speed absolutely free. If you haven't notice the speed increase yet, it's because you actually have to power down your modem and restart. It's as simple as that.
Comcast is upgrading its data speeds because it knows that there is a growing trend of consumers using more than one wireless device in their homes to access the internet.
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What Would 10k iPhones as Dominoes Look Like?
What could you possibly do with 10K iPhones in one place other than use them in clever domino effect layout. Look closely at the video and see if you can tell if it is real or not. Either way, it's a good advertising gimmick for Apple.
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Curved OLED TV to Launch by End of Year
Are you ready for the next 'big' thing in TV land? Well LG hopes so and will be marketing its curved screen OLED TVs for viewers who want a true panoramic experience with wider viewing angles. The units are scheduled to go retail sometime late this year.
LG has suggested that curved TVs will be the next big advancement in the home entertainment sector, with the first curved OLED TVs to hit retailers 'soon'.
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Windows 8.1 'Kiosk Mode' Discovered in Leak
There's a leak or two a week these days leading up to the release of Windows 8.1 and in this version, (Build 9374) Windows 8.1 is showing off its Kiosk Mode. Whether this is a new feature or just an experiment, it has the rumor mill turning again.
Kiosk Mode appears to be a way to lock down a device to a single Windows 8-style application. Apps can be selected to launch at login, with the app lockdown in place for user accounts.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition Spotted
Looks like Bethesda is keeping true to form and planning to release the Legendary Edition of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on June 7th according to Eurogamer Poland. The release will be for Xbox , PS3 and PC platforms.
Some sort of compilation for Skyrim was expected as Bethesda Softworks has done the same with previous games such as Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
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Microsoft's Bing Blocked by Browsers
Microsoft's Bing search engine is having a bit of a problem with its Security Certificates and is being blocked by most browsers as an untrusted site.
The certificate, which was apparently misconfigured by Akamai (which front-ends Bing for Microsoft), threw up warnings on browsers—including Internet Explorer—that the site might be fraudulent.
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Twitter Gets into the TV Business with BBC America
Twitter will be partnering with BBC America to provide quality online content for Twitter while providing ad revenue for BBCA. Twitter wants to have the opportunity to keep users onsite as long as possible and providing quality entertainment is a sure-fire method to keep your attention.
Twitter would also like to bring you everything you need online in one place the way Facebook does. The latter was made apparent yesterday when TV network BBC America announced its partnership with Twitter via tweet.
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