Snow Leopard debuts, FBI investigates laptops

28.08.2009

5. : The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is going to open a three-pronged inquiry into the wireless industry. The inquiry could lead to major changes in how the FCC assesses, and regulates, that industry.

6. and : At last, the iPhone will be sold in China, with China Unicom signing a three-year deal with Apple. The deal, which was long rumored, raises questions about how effectively Apple will navigate dealing with the bureaucracy of the Chinese government. Read on for more news out of China.

7. : This week's oopsie entry comes from China, where authorities said that an attack by a Chinese online game provider that was aimed at taking down a rival's servers veered out of control and caused May's Internet outage through much of the nation. Interestingly, that sort of untoward behavior is common among small Internet companies trying to compete in China, though usually such shenanigans remain smaller in scale.

8. and : Intel offered some encouraging economic news, saying that it expects PC sales will be robust over the next few years, and separately revising its third-quarter financial forecast to reflect a more optimistic outlook.

9. : Developers this week expressed enthusiasm for Twitter's plan announced last week that it will add geolocation features to the micro-blogging site.