Today in Tech - Apple's WWDC, T-Mobile Security Breach and the Bing Search Engine

From Bing's bizarre ploy at viral marketing to the ongoing buzz at Apple WWDC 2009, here is what is trending in the world of tech for June 8, 2009.

Apple's WWDC

Apple's much anticipated 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference has lived up to all the hype with the unveiling of the latest model of the iPhone, Snow Leopard OS and some MacBooks with some seriously optimized processors. Of more interest to the average consumer is the news that the basic model of the iPhone has dropped to only $99, meaning the revolutionary technology can finally makes its way into the average person's palm. The week long conference at San Jose, California is receiving international hourly media coverage and is trending at the top of Twitter search queries. On the plate today are the Apple Design Awards and the entertaining Stump the Experts trivia event. Tickets to Apple's WWDC are sold out, but videos of the conference will be available for purchase via the WWDC website early next week.

China Cracks Down on Internet Porn

The Chinese government has announced that all future PC's will come with a security feature that will disable access to pornographic material requested for by domain names and keyword searches. Although the software inhibits access to these materials, the Associate Press reports that the measures short of reporting internet usage to the Chinese government or other third parties. The decision is part of a decade long trend by China to restrict the internet access of its citizens that is amongst the most severe in the global community. The move may end up blowing up in China's face, as few things are more motivating for dissent and action than sexual frustration.

T-Mobile Security Breach

CNET and other tech news agencies are reporting that anonymous hackers are claiming to have compromised T-Mobile's security and gained access to confidential company information, as well as personally identifiable information (PII) on T-Mobile customers. Although T-Mobile is looking into the claims, many are skeptical that this all may be some sort of a hoax by the self described hackers.

Bing Gains Momentum

Following the live streaming of the decidedly shrill Bing variety program, Bing-a-thon, on Hulu and the growing word of mouth on the new intuitive search engine, Microsoft has been garnering more and more attention and first time visits by the younger demographics of internet users. I'm not proud of getting so bowled over by a Microsoft product, but I have to admit that I'm pretty much sold on the new Bing search engine and have officially changed the home page of all of my web browsers to bing.com. As obnoxious as the Bing-a-thon may have been, the Bing search engine is a powerful new tool that is worth a glance.

Sources:

http://developer.apple.com/WWDC/
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/08/technology/apple_wwdc/?postversion=2009060816
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5goTlHz28jUIOSMcwiJD9mX6GVZyQD98MMBVO0
http://www.bing.com/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10259487-83.html