Yahoo closes Yahoo Auctions Yahoo is closing its Yahoo Auctions service in the UK and Ireland, as well as in the US and Canada. The UK & Ireland service will beclosingfrom 28th June, while the US and Canada version will shut on 16 June. Yahoo said the US sites will no longer accept listings from 3 June. Auctions Scheduler and Auto Resubmit features will not be available from 4 May....
DDoS attacks die off, but spam returns Tech crime has a new victim – the tech criminal. It appears that one form of attack that struck fear into the hearts of security experts the world over is actually a dud. Symantec has noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where a network of remote-controlled bots – usually end-user machines infected with malicious software – overloads a target’s system and takes it offline....
BlackBerry outage alienates RIM customers The widespread BlackBerry outage in North America last week inconvenienced some corporate users of the popular wireless email service. But what most irked them was the lack of an immediate explanation or frequent updates about the outage from BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion (RIM) The outage began on Tuesday evening, but RIM didn’t issue a public statement acknowledging it until Wednesday afternoon – after the service had been restored....
Business iPhone planned by Apple partner AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers but analysts aren’t recommending that enterprises supply workers with Apple’s new handset. Cingular, which was acquired by AT&T, recently decided that Apple’s iPhone will appeal to business users and the operator is now working hard to ensure that its backend enterprise billing and support systems will accommodate the device when it ships, said a source familiar with the company’s plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity....
Apple working on European iPhone launch Apple’s efforts to release the iPhone in Europe have begun in earnest after the company started advertising for a senior executive to handle the iPhone’s European operations. The company is advertising for an iPhone business process engineer/project manager based in Ireland ahead of the iPhone’s planned European release at the end of 2007. It’s a complex post, the successful applicant must be able to provide cross-functional project management of the iPhone implementation project, implement the processes and systems required to support Apple’s iPhone launch and ongoing support, and provide background and connections with existing mobile network operators....
