Pittsburgh (ip-192.com): Finally, the iPhone has a new use – tracking and apprehending crime suspects. According to a story published today in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a man was mugged at gunpoint by two suspects Saturday night. They took his iPhone, wallet, and credit cards. They also forced the victim to reveal some Pin-numbers. Police say [...]
Great Britain (ip-192.com): 38 percent of people using social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter post details about holiday plans and 33 percent details of a weekend away, according to a survey of 2,092 social media users by British-based Legal & General Group PLC. The insurance company warns that not only friends but potential burglars [...]
Helsinki (ip-192.com): Nokia unveiled its first phone running on Linux software, aiming at improving its offering at the top end of the market. Nokia said that its new Solutions Business Unit aims to better tie together its phone operations and new mobile Internet services offering. Industry analysts see Linux as a key for Nokia to [...]
Seattle (ip-192.com): Amazon announced a limited beta version of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service, which connects a company's existing computing resources and Amazon's cloud as if they were part of one data center. Companies can use a Virtual Private Cloud to move corporate applications, including e-mail, financial systems and CRM applications, into the Amazon [...]
Denver (ip-192.com): Bankrupt Unix vendor SCO is at it again: A federal appeals court reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell. "There are 20 million versions of Linux running around the world," so SCO chief executive Darl McBride in an interview with the Associated Press. "Linux [...]
Dallas (ip-192.com): AT&T acknowledged in a letter to the FCC that Apple and AT&T have an agreement to block Voice over IP (VoIP) applications from using AT&T’s network. According to the letter send to the FCC, the agreement covers AT&T’s cellular network, but not AT&T’s wireless service. ZDNet published excerpts from AT&T’s letter to the [...]
