T-Mobile probes alleged breach

T-Mobile USA is looking into claims that a hacker has broken into its databases and stolen customer and company information, reports CNET News.

Someone anonymously posted the claims on the security mailing list Full Disclosure on Saturday. In that post, the hacker claims to have gotten access to "everything, their databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009".

The poster said he had offered the information to T-Mobile competitors, but they supposedly did not show any interest. Now he says he is offering the information to the highest bidder.

Throughout the recession, Apple watchers have wondered whether the consumer electronics giant would release cheaper products to appeal to today's thrifty consumers, says BusinessWeek.

With sales of many products from other companies in the doldrums, the conventional wisdom goes, Apple could walk off with huge slices of market share for everything from Macs to iPods to iPhones if it would just lower prices.

Apple ended the suspense at a company event for software developers on 8 June, cutting the price on the most recent version of its iPhone and some versions of its MacBook Pro line of laptops.

Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said on Monday the struggling Internet giant can "take on" rivals Microsoft and Google, and she dismissed the idea of striking a partnership with Time Warner's AOL unit, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Bartz, however, declined to rule out a search partnership with Microsoft, which tried to buy Yahoo last year and remains open to some sort of deal that could bolster its search capabilities to compete with market leader Google.

"If you talk about search in general, you could partner with somebody," she said in an interview with Fox Business News' Liz Claman.

Twitter is planning to crack down on celebrity impersonators who post messages on the service as if they were the real thing, reports San Francisco Chronicle.

The San Francisco company said over the weekend that it will introduce a verification system to ensure famous people are who they say they are.

Twitter has long been a playground for people pretending to be Hollywood stars or high-profile political figures. It left other users confused about whether they were actually following updates by their favourite artists and athletes, or just some 12-year-old with too much time on his hands.