Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 01:29 pm By Neil Hughes Despite growing competition from other tablets, Apple’s iPad still accounts for a whopping 89.28 percent of e-commerce website traffic, and also rakes in more money on a per-user basis than any other platform. Source: Monetate Ecommerce Quarterly report for Q1 2013. The figures come from Monetate’s latest Ecommerce Quarterly report issued on Wednesday and provided to AppleInsider. The data culled from Read More

Yep looks about right (Shutterstock / zimmytws) An NYPD detective was arrested this morning by federal agents for allegedly using his work computer to hack into the email accounts and cell phones of former and current officers. According to the FBI, 42-year-old Edwin Vargas paid $4,050 to email hacking companies for usernames and passwords of at least 30 people, 21 of them current or former NYPD employees. Vargas also allegedly Read More

(click image for larger view) A high-profile information security attack against Google in late 2009 — part of what was later dubbed Operation Aurora — was a counterespionage operation being run by the Chinese government. Former government officials with knowledge of the breach said attackers successfully accessed a database that flagged Gmail accounts marked for court-ordered wiretaps. Such information would have given attackers insight into active investigations being conducted by Read More

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats. A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay prison says that officials have also blocked access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter through military computer networks because of the threat. Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says the precautions were taken because of online threats to Read More

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The SAPS needs to beef up its IT security measures following a breach that has compromised thousands of whistle-blowers. The hacking of the SA Police Service’s (SAPS’s) Web site, that has put thousands of lives in jeopardy, spells gross negligence and raises questions around the police’s IT systems and security. This is according to security experts, following an attack on the SAPS’s Web site by hackers yesterday, which Read More

In the week that Tumblr has been acquired by Yahoo, it’s interesting to see that Urturn, a service with a similar focus on user-generated content being shared by a youthful audience, has announced a $13.4 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Balderton Capital and coincides with the launch of Urturn’s mobile app for iOS. Until January this year, Urturn went by the name of Webdoc and it initially Read More

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 04:56 am By AppleInsider Staff Unity, the company behind the eponymous game rendering engine, announced on Tuesday that it will no longer be charging an $800 licensing fee to developers looking to make apps for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. As Unity CEO David Helgason explained at the firm’s Unite Nordic conference, the decision to drop fees for the tool’s basic feature set is part of Read More

The Lightning connector version of the Logitech Wired Keyboard will ship in August (click image to enlarge). (Credit: Logitech) We review a lot of wireless Bluetooth keyboards and keyboard cases for iPads and other tablets, but we’ve yet to review a wired keyboard for the iPad. It comes as little surprise then that Logitech, which makes plenty of Bluetooth keyboards, has unveiled the Wired Keyboard for iPad, which it dubs Read More

The folks at Logitech are experts at producing keyboards, and it has leveraged that expertise to make an unusual keyboard for the iPad. Other iPad keyboards connect to the tablet wirelessly via Bluetooth, but the new Wired Keyboard for iPad is the exception. The wired keyboard comes in two models, one that plugs into the current Lightning connector on the iPad and another that connects Read More