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Twitter hacked, 250K accounts compromised

By Jane Gracielo, on February 2nd, 2013%

On Friday, Twitter has confirmed that it had been the newest victim of a cyber attack.

For the past few months, there were a number of high profile cyber attacks made against a number of media companies. People from Twitter stated that the hackers may have acquired access to information on about 25,000 of the 200 million active users of the social networking site.

In a blog post, Twitter wrote that early on this week, it has detected shots to get information to the media’s user data. It has shut off an attack event after it was identified. However, it . . . → Read More: Twitter hacked, 250K accounts compromised

iPad Mini be launched with 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro

By Antonnete Teresita, on October 16th, 2012%

Rumors for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro are now back in the expectations of a probable event hosted by Apple next week. Allegedly, the device has been confirmed for the event that comes with its unparalleled battery design.

The Cupertino-based company has introduced the 15-inch version of the Retina MacBook Pro at the time of the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference last June. At that time it did not give any hints on the 13-inch version. However, this did not stop the gadget world from guessing of the 13-inch release.

On Sunday, 9to5 Mac has declared that there is a high-profile . . . → Read More: iPad Mini be launched with 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro

Chief Patent Lawyer of Apple Exits

By Maria Joyce Cabilao, on July 13th, 2011%

According to a reliable source, the top copyright lawyer of Apple will shortly exit the Cupertinian mothership. The question arises, as is normal with such high-profile departures: did he jump, or was he pushed?

The forthcoming departure of Richard “Chip” Lutton was reported on Tuesday by Reuters, quoting the ever-loquacious “sources familiar with the situation.”

If Reuters is right and Lutton is, certainly, about to disappear, a fight can be made that he might have been an injured party of current copyright-violation settlement of Apple with Nokia, the ending of a copyright battle that . . . → Read More: Chief Patent Lawyer of Apple Exits