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Intuit users experienced a two-day outage of the Intuit on-line access for Quickbooks and Quickbooks Payroll systems.
As with many things in life, like heart attacks or giant oil spills, certain problems aren’t necessarily problems until they are. That seems to be the case with the issue of performance in cloud computing, to judge from the negative reactions to the Intuit outage last week. So what are the lessons to be learned from this snafu?
As reported in www.informationweek.com
AT&T has suspended pre-orders of Apple iPhone 4 on Wednesday, a day after its Web site was overwhelmed with unexpected demand, triggering a glitch in its system that inadvertently exposed some customer’s information to other users.
Apple said that advanced sales of the iPhone 4 hit 600,000 Tuesday but that the strong demand resulted in “many order and approval system malfunctions.”
Gizmodo, a technology Web site, reported there were at least three cases in which users were able to see other people’s personal information when they tried to log in.
Viacom is accusing YouTube of “massive intentional copyright infringement”, saying that 160,000 unauthorized Viacom clips have been uploaded onto YouTube, totaling more than 1.5 billion views.
Google is also mentioned.
There is no question that YouTube and Google are continuing to take the fruit of our efforts without permission and destroying enormous value in the process. This is value that rightfully belongs to the writers, directors and talent who create it and companies like Viacom that have invested to make possible this innovation and creativity.
As reported on Mashable.com
Microsoft Corp. v. Salesforce.com Inc., 10cv825, U.S. District Court of Washington (Seattle) and accuses SalesForce of infringing on 9 of their patents.
SalesForce.com allegedly “has profited through infringement of the Microsoft patents-in-suit” according to the complaint.
How does this affect vendors who have built their business on top of SalesForce's platform?
On March 2, 2010, Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface.
as reported in pcworld.com
The FBI has opened an investigation into a security breach of AT&T 's website that exposed the email addresses of some owners of Apple iPad devices.
Wall Street Journal Story
The New Zealand Privacy Commission said police are to consider whether Google Inc. committed a criminal offence when it obtained information for its Street View mapping service.
New Zealand is one of several other countries that have started investigating the way the Internet giant collects personal data through wireless networks, as controversy over how Internet companies handle private data ripples around the globe.
The Washington Post
Authorities identify those reposnible for the BIG Google Hack in January. No one is sure if we will ever find out what user information was stolen. Google insist that China officials are involved.
The Big Hack was performed by Hacking group in China.
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