The Sun:
Sony music suffered its second major security breach in a year, with thieves targeting songs and unreleased material by the superstar singer.It’s alleged they downloaded more than 50,000 music files, worth £160million, in the biggest ever cyber attack on a music company.
Has Sony ever heard of security?
I’m sure I’ve been been at this light.
Tim Bajarin:
And I also don’t think they really understand the idea that people want to have access to that content anytime, anywhere and on any device they own.
Tim’s article is just chock full of quotes I could pull out, but for me, this is one of the biggest reasons Apple can take over the industry. Traditional market leaders don’t want things to change and that’s exactly why Apple dominates the music, smartphone, tablet and MP3 player markets.
Apple isn’t afraid to turn a market on its head and introduce a new way of doing things.
JP Mangalindan:
Strolling around the Microsoft Store in Santa Clara, Calif., there’s no getting around the fact that you’ve seen this all before. Like, across the street — where a brightly lit, glass-paneled Apple Store stands.
A couple of screenshots and the 2011 trailer.
Architecture firm Ideabox has partnered with Ikea to create a fully furnished prefab house big enough for one or two people.
A creditor of Proview – the company which is contesting Apple for the iPad trademark in China – is pressuring to have the company declared bankrupt and liquidated.
The picture says it all.
Dust 514 – the new massively multiplayer online shooter coming from EVE Online’s developers – will be free-to-play when it’s released for the PS3.
Impressive.
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Apple on Monday named the winner of its 25 billionth app download. The app counter rolled over to 25 billion on Friday night and people have been wondering who the winner was ever since.
According to Apple, the 25 billionth app downloaded, Where’s My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.
“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”
All brogrammers must die.
Square now offers Register, a new iPad-based point of sale system for retail merchants who use its card reader.
Whether you want to record a Skype conversation, save a streaming radio program, or just record a quick voice memo, Piezo can do it. It runs on Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 and it can capture audio from any application (yup, even sandboxed App Store apps).
Download Piezo free, then buy it in the App Store or directly through our store.
Matt Gemmell takes an in-depth look at the device.
Amit Runchal:
The difference between DRM in eBooks and DRM in music is now DRM’s main purpose isn’t to combat piracy but to ensure competitive lock-in.
Some interesting thoughts.
A graphic of heavy metal bands per 100,000 people. I don’t know if it’s accurate, but it shows where the beard can travel.
Ben Brooks:
I like what Readability has tried to do with the service, and the apps are gorgeous, but I have a big problem with the approaches being taken by them. For one I can’t figure out if they want to be a great place to save articles for reading later, or do they want to be a middleman that helps make money for independent publishers and large publishers alike, or… I don’t know. The motives matter to me and I can’t figure out Readability’s.
I’m a long time user of Instapaper. I pay Marco for the service and have no plans to stop.
I have this on Godsmack’s Changes DVD and love it. Sully Erna and Shannon Larkin and so incredibly talented.
A parent at a girl’s hockey game in Massachusetts was ejected when he was caught flashing a laser pointer into the eyes of the opposing team’s goalie.
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Some very cool designs, but some seem a bit too much for me.
Peter offers tech journos advice for what to write about in the absence of real news.
Reuters:
NASA said hackers stole employee credentials and gained access to mission-critical projects last year in 13 major network breaches that could compromise U.S. national security.
I wonder what the protocol is when a government agency gets hacked.
Apple’s App Store has been open for almost four years and Apple announced late on Friday that the 25 billionth app had been downloaded.
No contest winner has been announced but they will receive a $10,000 gift certificate in iTunes or Mac App Store.
ThisIsWhyImBroke:
A site run by a few geeky ladies and gentlemen who partake in way too much internet window shopping. As such, our staff has a wide array of cool, fun, useful, and unique products that we showcase on our website.
This web site has way too many things that make you go, “Oh! I’d love to have one of those!” Check out the transparent Pool Table! Thanks to @Chiron1 for the heads up.
I bought this last night and have been playing around with it. Lots of great features like drag and drop video and images and support for lots of blogging platforms, including Wordpress, Movable Type, Joomla, Drupal, Posterous, Blogger and TypePad.
Still lots of exploring to do, but so far I’m impressed.
Wired:
When it comes to computer security, Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology Officer at security consultancy White Hat Security, is paranoid — and for good reason. He’s seen what the bad guys can do. But when he met with Wired at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, he said something surprising: He doesn’t use antivirus software.As it turns out, many of his security-minded peers don’t use it either. The reason: If someone is going to try and attack them, they’re likely to use a new technique, one that most antivirus products will miss. “If you asked the average security expert whether they use antivirus or not,” Grossman says “a significant proportion of them do not.”