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techfile 16.07.09

July 16, 2009 7:05am
by Chris Nuttall

  • Twitter is facing death by a thousand cuts - well, at least 310, anyway. That is the number of confidential internal documents that Mike Arrington of TechCrunch says he has been supplied with by an anonymous hacker, who obtained the information from a Twitter employee’s account with Google. The leak has caused red faces both at Twitter, which also revealed that personal internet accounts of co-founder Evan Williams had been hacked before, and Google, which defended the security of its Gmail and Apps services.
  • The PC market is looking up. Sales were stronger in the second quarter than industry analysts had predicted, suggesting that the industry could be bottoming out as consumers begin to spend more. Worldwide PC sales slipped only 3.1 per cent by volume from a year earlier, about half the retreat expected by market researcher IDC and less than half of the first-quarter’s 6.8 per cent drop.
  • Two more significant technology companies follow Intel’s upbeat report with their second-quarter earnings today - Google and IBM’s results will be eagerly awaited for further signs of a recovery, after the close in New York. Nokia reports earlier in the day.
  • The PC and the Mac guy could be visiting adjacent stores soon.  Kevin Turner, Microsoft chief operating officer,  told its partner conference that Microsoft stores would open close to Apple ones in the autumn.
  • Facebook users have grown to 250m. The social networking service announced the 200m milestone on April 8, so that’s 25 per cent growth in just over three months. At this rate, 350m by Christmas looks likely.

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July 16, 2009 7:05am in Computers, Hardware, Internet, Mobile, Software | Comment

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