Thursday, October 13, 2011

What's in The News Today

Blackberry has blackouts throughout the world. The service interruptions occurred throughout Europe to North America two days before Apple's iPhone 4S. The outage also effected the Middle East, Africa and India the Blackberry devices suffered loss of services with emails, browsers and messaging. This left many customers frustrated and timing couldn't have better for the iphone 4S. The United Arab Emirates will compensate their customers with three days of free usage. Other regions did not give compensation or clarified information.


Prodhan, G. (October 12, 2011). Blackerry Outage Spreads To North America. Huff Post. Retrieved October 13, 2011, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/blackberry-outage-north-america_n_1006755.htm

Hollywood hacker is arrested. Christopher Chaney, 35 is a suspect for hacking 50 victims such as: Christina Aguilera and  Mila Kuni. The investigation took 11-months for the arrest of Chaney. He was arrested and released on a $10,000 bond. He will have his trial in Los Angeles and if convicted he faces 121 years in prison on 26 indictments, including wire tapping, identity theft and accessing and damaging computer. Many racy photos were hacked and sent to gossip sites and posted all over the Internet.

hindustantimes. (October 13, 2011). Scarlett Johansson's hacker arrested. Retrieved October 13, 2011, from http://www.hindustantimes.com/Scarlett-Johansson-s-hacker-arrested/Article1-756724.aspx


Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan. The Republican presidential candidate is number one and leading with his 9-9-9 plan.  The nine's represent 9% federal sales tax, 9% income tax and 9 percent corporate tax.

670 KBOI. (October  2011). Poll: Herman Caine Now on Top of the Leader Board in 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2011, from http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=112&itemid=29738853

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