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Apple co-founder wishes iPhones were like Androids
January 17, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted his Android-powered smartphone out muscles his iPhone much of the time. “My primary phone is the iPhone,” Wozniak said. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.” Though still a big fan of the iPhone, Wozniak argues Android has a better built-in navigation, and that voice commands work better on the Google-made operating system than its Cupertino counterpart. “I used to ask Siri, ‘What are the five biggest lakes in California?’ and it would come back with the answer,” he said. “Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listing. I used to ask, ‘What are the prime numbers greater than 87?’ and it would answer.

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Zappos suffers major data breach
January 16, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
In what’s seen as the first major cyber-attack of 2012, Amazon-owned online retailer Zappos has fallen victim to a data breach affecting as many as 24 million users. “We were recently the victim of a cyber-attack by a criminal who gained access to parts our internal network and systems through one of our servers in Kentucky,” said Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh in an email to employees. It is believed that the hacker was able to access customer names, email addresses, billing and postal addresses, phone numbers, as well as cryptographically scrambled passwords and the last four digits of customers’ credit card numbers. To combat customer data vulnerability the company said it expired and reset customers’ passwords and would be sending an email with further instructions to all 24 million of its customers. The full nature of the hacking incident is yet to be determined, but in the meantime the Zappos website is currently “not accepting international traffic ,” according to a notice on the site. The company is cooperating with U.S

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Groupon founder admits his failings
January 16, 2012 by elegant · Leave a Comment
Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason has admitted his team made a “bush-league mistake” in the lead-up to the company’s IPO filing last November. The daily deals monger was forced to revise its filing papers after reporting that it generated $713.4 million (