Archive for January, 2012
 

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Internet

Amazon Apologises for Cloud Computing Fault

Posted April 30th, 2011 by Indus

Famous online retailer Amazon apologized to its users for the fault in their web hosting service EC2, that knocked down many reputed websites. The disruption occurred on last Thursday hampered the services of popular websites like Foursquare, Reddit, Quorra. The sites went offline for several days as a result of disruption. Amazon’s EC2 or Elastic [...]

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Games

PlayStation Data Breach Could Cost Card Lenders $300m

Posted April 30th, 2011 by Indus

Analysts said that credit card lenders could be facing more than $300 million card replacement costs if customers are affected by PlayStation data breach opt to replace their credit cards. Previously, analysts have estimated that the incident would cost Sony Corp more than $1.5 billion . But this is the first time they also estimated [...]

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Internet

Facebook Users Cross 25 Million Mark in India

Posted April 30th, 2011 by Indus

Social networking site Facebook said its users has crossed 25 million mark in India. Vice President of Advertising and Global operations of FaceBook David Fischer said on Thursday. In recent past of India, Facebook has emerged as a popular site where users interact with each other publicly, while leaving behind other social networking sites like [...]

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Technology and Computers

BlackBerry PlayBook Selling Well: Best Buy

Posted April 30th, 2011 by Indus

According to retailer Best Buy Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook is selling well. Best Buy said in a statement that they had great success in selling BlackBerry smartphones in North America and so the sales expectations for BlackBerry were very high. Till date the store has sold more numbers of PlayBooks that they expected. The [...]

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Internet

Apple & Google to Testify Before Congress on Privacy Issue

Posted April 30th, 2011 by Indus

Search engine & technology giant Google and Apple have agreed to testify before Congress lead committee about consumer privacy issue related to smartphones, tablets and other related mobile technologies. These two major American companies have agreed to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on May 10 after they received a letter from committee chairman Patrick Leahy [...]

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