1. The PS3 Hacking The major hacking the led to the disablement of the Sony play station network, made the techies realize how weak their technology is. The compromising of credit card information anguished the gamers. The hacker group called anonymous threatened and hacked the Sony play station to compete with the PS3 hacker Geohotz. The other sect of hackers called Lulzsec split-up after they cluttered with the digital bits of plenty of organizations including the CIA and Arizona police. The hacking led to the widespread adoption of ironclad security across the Web. In some way we should be thankful to the hackers.
2. AT&T Announces Fusion with T-MobileThe announcement of AT&T acquiring T-Mobile (mobile with 4G facilities) for $39 Billion through a press release joggled up a sleepy Sunday in the month of March. The later declaration of new 4G modems for Albequerque led to a conspiracy since this would create a monopoly which is a great threat for GSM carriers. But many big players supported the AT&T mobile as it would be helpful for people living in rural areas.
3. Twitter Takes Down Anthony WeinerThis news was a less of awareness and more of a caution. May 27th Anthony Weiner's 45,000 followers on twitter checked out his photo with a bulge on his face. Weiner alleged that his account was hacked and the photo posted was a hoax. But later when he was found guilty his fate was all sealed. He had to step down from his position. He was also following random young women on twitter was considered to be a lousy act by a reputed politician.
4. Apple, Google, and Amazon Take Music into the CloudAmazon unveiled its cloud music locker and player which later Google was about to bring out. In the June starting apple announced iCloud. iCloud has the features that the cloud service offers but didn't have parallel users. Steve jobs flattered about the major music labels which sadly Amazon and Google didn't do. There are rumours that iCloud must have cost Apple around $150 million.
5. Microsoft Windows EvolvesThe Announcement of Microsoft designing windows8 to work on ARM devices which has been modified to run on Intel's x86 chips. The metro tablet interface enjoyed the gossips and rumors about their brand new OS.
6. Nintendo Announces Wii UNintendo's Wii U was sensationalized as they announced about their games to be more superior to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360. But their ideas and plan were vague so no one got the answer for the question "what are they upto?" A sophisticated tablet motion controller, and the console itself will have HD graphics, but the experience of using a tablet just isn't as intuitive as waving a Wiimote. This will be a mystery till 2012.
7. Verizon gets the iPhoneVerizon iPhone was expected to be a myth among many people which was later proved to be a true fact. The Verizon version was a CDMA version ofiPhone 4. The upcoming iPhone 5 which will be the world's top phone would work on both CDMA and GSM networks.
8. Location Tracking brought to light Apple was sued by 2 scientists when they found the company tracking locations of iPhone users. Apple was mum about this issue in
the start but later it broke its silence and said they had a location tracking database to make it more secure which tranquilized the issue a bit. The database was confidential and no one would see the location services on their phones in a same way again.
9. Google Announces Its Facebook Competitor, Google+This is news that was spread like a virus and was the craze among the all the Facebook fans. Every person wanted to try out Google+. Google+ was actually brought to bring down Facebook; can also be called as an alternative of Facebook. The innovation of google+ led to a serious rivalry between Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page.
10. Microsoft Buys SkypeMicrosoft investing and acquiring Luxembourg-based VoIP upstart Skype for $8.5 billion shows that they have loads of cash.
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