A very small number of Gmail users temporarily lost their Gmail accounts starting on Sunday. Most of them had their accounts back by mid-day Tuesday, the company said. Ben Treynor, Google’s (News – Alert) vice president for engineering and site reliability czar, blamed the outage on a “bug.” According to a blog post he made...
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Computerworld – Consumer Reports today said that its lab tests show the Verizon iPhone 4 suffers from a “death grip” problem similar to last summer’s revelations about AT&T’s model. Holding the Verizon model in certain ways can “cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in weak signal conditions,” the...
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IDG News Service – In a sign that hackers, like everyone else, are taking an interest in everything Apple, researchers at Sophos say they’ve spotted a new Trojan horse program written for the Mac. It’s called the BlackHole RAT (the RAT part is for “remote access Trojan”) and it’s pretty easy to find online...
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IDG News Service – It’s been a few years coming, but it looks like China may finally be getting a handle on its spam problem. Once the largest source of the world’s spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world’s top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Systems’ IronPort group ranks it...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a judge to shut down an alleged text-messaging spam operation that sent out 85 text messages per minute at its peak, the agency said Wednesday. The alleged operation of Phillip A. Flora pitched loan modification assistance, debt relief and other services, the FTC said in a news...
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