Last week, former Apple employee Paul Devine was arrested and charged with selling secrets to Asian suppliers in exchange for over $2 million in kickbacks.
Devine, one of Apple’s global supply managers, was charged “with offenses that include wire fraud, money laundering and unlawful monetary transactions,” which began in 2006.
This week, Devine has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Prosecutors say Devine’s email accounts clearly show him “orchestrating” deposits from the Asian suppliers.
Furthermore, Apple has filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against Devine.
Devine worked for Apple from 2005 until this year. Apple, in their suit, allege that Devine “colllected commissions” for years from at least six Asian supplier in exchange for confidential information that helped them to secure deals.
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Blizzard has announced today that they have removed 320,000 “cheaters” from Battle.net, shutting down the accounts of those playing Warcraft III and Diablo II and using hacks.
A first time ban gets your account suspended for 30 days, and a second time offender will be banned for good.
“We would like all players to remember that abuse of unintended mechanics and/or use of third party programs is a violation of the agreement made when signing on to Battle.net, and can subject your account to disciplinary action up to and including a permanent ban of its access to the service,” says the Blizzard forum post. “These types of activities can severely impact the stability of our servers, and we’ll continue to aggressively monitor Battle.net in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating.”
The account closures are final, and the company says most of those banned were first reported by legitimate users who emailed the company claiming those users were cheating.
The company says if you know of any other cheaters or sites responsible for distributing hacks, email them at hacks@blizzard.com.
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Google has released an early alpha version of the upcoming Android update 2.0, dubbed Donut, and XDA-developers are currently working on making it available to all Android phone users.
Among the new updates, according to MobileCrunch are:
* Support for CDMA phones
* Text-to-speech
* Loads of new widgets, including one that allows for WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS/Email toggling and Brightness adjustment right from the homescreen.
* Official support for multitouch (This was previously available through hackery - we’re not sure yet if this will be in the final build)
* “Search integrated into everything”
* WPA Enterprise WiFi encryption support
* VPN support
* Automated backups
* “Tons of performance [tweaks]“
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