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BlackBerry Service “Improving” as RIM Explains System Failure
After three days of service outages, Research in Motion announced that BlackBerry’s service has now improved. According to RIM, the outage problem was from a system failure followed by “backlog issues.” RIM reported that BlackBerry services in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India “have improved significantly,” and they are continuously monitoring the situation to ensure ...
VeriSign Aims for Power to Shut Down Websites Without Court Order
VeriSign Inc., the authoritative registry operator for two of the most important top-level domains, .com and .net, filed a request to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) Registry Services Evaluation Process on October 10, that proposes a new malware scanning service for domains as well as a new VeriSign Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy. This will give ...
Zynga Diversifies Beyond Facebook as Gaming Industry Spreads
Recap: Zynga, the company that brought new twists to online gaming, partnered with Google and brought some of their games, CityVille and Texas Hold’em Poker, to Google+ but with the expensive build of their game, Empires and Allies, Zynga suffered a 90% profit decline in their second quarter net income. Now, to make up for the ...
Apple Fans Prep for Today’s iOS 5 Release
If you don’t have the means to buy the new iPhone 4S or you have no plans of replacing your iPhone at the moment, Apple users won’t be completely left in the dark as they can upgrade their devices for free with the new iOS 5. The new iOS is set to be released today, ...
BlackBerry Outage: Day 3. Etisalat To The Rescue
Yesterday we reported that Research in Motion announced that service had been restored to affected users in Europe, Middle East and Africa sans explanation as to what caused the service outage. But in a later statement, RIM retracted their earlier announcement and stated that the affected area of the service outage spread beyond EMEA and reached India, ...
Sony In The Slumps With PSN Breach, TV Recall
Last April, over 100 million Sony PlayStation Network accounts were hacked, though it wasn’t until a week had passed that they learned about the breach in their security. It took more than two months to iron out their security flaws, only to be hacked again, and Sony vowed to overhaul their security to prevent the ...
Samsung’s Desperate Bid to Rain On Apple’s Parade
When Apple rejected Samsung’s effort for a truce, everyone was certain that the latter would do everything in their power to get back at Apple. And they did. A day after Apple unveiled their iPhone 4S, Samsung filed an infringement lawsuit against Apple’s latest device in courts across France and Italy. And in an effort to ...
It’s an e-World for Publishers, from Interactive Books to Singles
As the holiday season nears, e-readers are among the devices which people want to receive or get for themselves. Next month, the Amazon Kindle Fire will be on the market, and it looks like a lot of people want to get their hands on the new tablet, though some say more people would buy the Kindle ...
AT&T Exceeds Expectations with 5 New Android Phones, Free Apps
AT&T shows just how much they love the Android platform, and the growing pool of Android-powered devices. Earlier this year, AT&T announced that they plan on releasing 12 Android smartphones, but they’re ahead of the game as the year ends, with a total of 19 Android smartphones, with plans for more devices to follow. The ...
Apple Prepares for Steve Jobs Event Next Week
When Apple’s board of directors announced the death of Steve Jobs, they made no mention of what ultimately caused his demise. Most of the public tied his death to pancreatic cancer, which he has been battling for five years. The coroner stated in his report that Jobs had metastatic pancreatic cancer, the tumor in his ...