Covid Domain Registrations Soar, Many by Bad Actors

Nearly half a million Covid-related domains have been created over the last two years, many of them being used by online fraudsters and hucksters. The pandemic has created an environment in which bad actors make use of a range of Covid-related “hooks” to commit cybercrime and fraud, impacting consumers and brands, explained CSC, a domain registrar…

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Apple MR Specs Will Shun Metaverse: Report

Although Apple is expected to launch a mixed reality product sometime this year, don’t expect it to lead its users into the metaverse, according to a prominent watcher of the company. The watcher, Mark Gurman, who writes the Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, wrote in the latest edition of the publication that the metaverse will…

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Apple Wearables Holiday Sales Knock It Out of the Park

The holiday shopping season was very good for Apple’s wearables business, according to a leading analyst of the company’s operations. Ming-Chi Kuo of TFI Asset Management reported over the weekend that Apple sold 90 million AirPods during the final quarter of 2021, including 27 million of the latest version of the earbuds released in September….

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CES 2022 Predictions

This is the first week of the new year and, given how 2020 and 2021 were, I am feeling a bit of trepidation that 2022 could be worse. The first big consumer event of 2022 is CES, and I still argue it’s way too soon after the holidays for a show that makes you want…

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