iPad hack unveils jailbreak

The iPad survived a day before hackers were able to break into it and gain root access over the weekend, reports PCWorld.

The hack was engineered by a group credited with the iPhone "Spirit" jailbreak, which uses an exploit in Safari to allow root access on the device.

The iPad jailbreak represents the next chapter in the epic struggle between computer hobbyists seeking full control over their devices, and hardware manufacturers that try to keep their products locked down.

Facebook has confirmed it has purchased Divvyshot, which lets groups of people upload photos to the Web, share them and edit them, for an undisclosed sum, states eWeek.

Divvyshot's technology groups its 40 000 users' photos into collections called "events", allowing multiple people to contribute to one so that users don't have to publish pictures as separate albums. Pictures uploaded by friends automatically appear in the events that have been created or joined.

Facebook will apply Divvyshot's approach to online photo sharing to its Facebook Photos service, which has gotten a speed increase and a refresh as part of the company's homepage redesign.

Google has started rolling out a privacy upgrade to its Buzz social networking tool, which includes a settings confirmation screen for all users, says PCMag.

Google introduced Buzz in early February. The social networking product added a "news feed" feature to Gmail, and also added some social components to Google mobile on Android and the iPhone.

Amid concern over how much personal information was being made public, Google tweaked Buzz several days after its debut, making it clear how information was shared, and simplifying the process for blocking or following other users.

It will be a slow, drawn-out process, but Microsoft is phasing out its support for Intel's once-promising Itanium chip, writes CNET.

The company says the current version of Windows Server - Windows Server 2008 R2 - will be the last one that supports the Itanium.

Microsoft also states its SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 will be the last version of its database and developer tools that run on the Intel chip.