Apple has declared that the personal computer is “nolonger the central hub” in people’s digital lives. Today, they released a new web storage & syncing cloud service for digital media–music, photos, files and software. The service will automatically store files and media from any Mac, iPad or iPhone on Apple’s cloud servers. The new service has been introduced at the low, low, low price of …free.
Say Goodbye MobileMe, hello cloud
The service will make files and media from one Apple device available on all devices of an owner. This will remove the hassle of syncing between mobile devices and computers. The iCloud service will replace the failed MobileMe service, and it will add expanded capabilities–namely the syncing of files, documents, applications and photos.
February was a bad month for email. Due to a surge in the month of February, spam now accounts for 90% of email traffic according to Symantec. Two botnets, named Grum and Rustock, helped this spam surge by pushing up spam levels 5.5 percent. The Grum botnet came back from a period of plateau to increase activity by 51%. The rise of both botnet systems were linked to activity related to Canadian pharmaceutical spam.