Mac Rumors is reporting that Apple has quietly relaxed its controversial guidelines regarding in-app subscription pricing for developers, which most directly affects apps by magazine and newspaper publishers.
Apple’s policy had required in-app subscriptions to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app,” which …
Follow-up: Sony: PSN Password Issue Was Exploit, Not Hack
Reports are starting to bubble up saying that Sony’s PlayStation Network may have been compromised yet again and, sure enough, I can’t even log into my own account on PlayStation.com: I get the above message.
MCVUK.com reports the following:
“The exploit allows people to
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When you first opened your Facebook account, you may or may not have noticed that much of your private information was set to be shared by default. Your name, status, photos, posts, bio and relationships are automatically made public when you first start a Facebook account, and it’s up to you to go into your personal settings and scale …
Research In Motion has recalled a little over 900 of its new-ish 7-inch PlayBook tablets, citing a quirky installation of the operating system “that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up,” as reported by CrackBerry.com.
If yours is one of the unlucky handful of tablets then you may want
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Call it a win-win for T-Mobile, as Reuters is reporting that AT&T may have promised to slide T-Mo a cool $6 billion if the $39 billion mega-merger announced earlier this year doesn’t make it past regulatory approval.
Reuters quotes “two sources who asked not to be named,” so take this information with a spoonful of skeptic syrup if …
As the story goes, a blogger named Chris Soghoian recently got an e-mail from a big-name PR company with a somewhat odd proposition.
The e-mail begins as follows:
“Mr. Soghoian,
I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
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You wouldn’t know it from the buzz, but the hack of Sony’s PlaysStation Network that compromised 77 million accounts is not the biggest breach in history. It’s only 4th according to DataLossDB. We’ve been losing much more data for quite a while now.
In a thoughtful blog post this week, computer scientist Ben Adida reflected on …
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has taken to his company’s blog for some additional damage control in light of the ongoing PlayStation Network data breach. Aside from the requisite we’re taking this very seriously rhetoric, Stringer’s letter contains a few details pertinent to PSN users.
For starters, U.S. PSN members are all getting a …
It seems that Visa, MasterCard and American Express are safe… FOR NOW!
Back in November, a fresh-faced youngster (yours truly) brought you news of a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon known as “Isis.”
The idea was that these three mobile companies would offer pay-by-phone features using near-field communication …
A six-page (and growing) forum post on Apple’s support website finds numerous owners of the Verizon-compatible iPad 2 reporting problems connecting to Verizon’s 3G network.
The problem seems to be that if the iPad’s Verizon connection is turned off, the tablet must be rebooted in order to get it connected again. This glitch only …
“Wow! See who viewed your twitter with Profile Spy.”
Do NOT click the link attached to that message, should you see it sashaying across your Twitter feed today (or ever). A similar ruse made its way across Facebook last summer.
If you click the message in Twitter and give it access to your Twitter account, revoke its access here: …
Email marketing provider Epsilon recently revealed that “a subset of Epsilon clients’ customer data” has been exposed.
As “the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider” with a roster of more than 2,500 big-name clients, the subset of data includes “email addresses and/or customer names,” as the original press release …
