1. eBay scammer gets four years in slammer
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/ebay_scammer_sentenced/
- A man convicted of swindling more than $259,000 using fraudulent eBay listings and other venues was ordered to serve 52 months in federal prison and pay $252,000 in restitution.
Derrick Lee Swantz, 57, of Lakewood, Colorado, was convicted in January of implementing two separate fraud schemes. In one, he offered luxury automobiles for sale on eBay and Autotrader.com. He used the phone and email to communicate with would-be buyers and directed them to make payments by making wire transfers or sending cashier’s checks.
2. URL Shortening Now More Secure And Private With Tini.us
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/04/28/tini-will-change-the-future-of-url-shortening-service-with-more-power.html
3. The Power Grid: Ground Zero of Internet Warfare
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131043
4. Facebook seeks to export its network across the Web
http://www.reuters.com/article/smallBusinessNews/idUSTRE53Q0OI20090427?rpc=64
5. Apple hires former ATI graphics chip designer
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/27/apple.hires.ati.cto/
- Apple has quietly signaled a new emphasis on graphics by hiring an influential graphics chipset designer from AMD. The former CTO for the company’s ATI graphics product group, Bob Drebin, has indicated on his LinkedIn profile that he is now a Senior Director for an unnamed group within Apple. What products he covers are unknown, though in addition to leading GPU engineering at ATI since 2000, he also spent significant time developing products at Silicon Graphics and, during a 2-year span at ArtX, helped create the “Flipper” GPU that formed the heart of the Nintendo GameCube.
