Technology

A hacker broke into one of Antioch University’s computer systems that contained personal information on over 70,000 people. They have broken into the system a total of three times this year despite the protection used by the school.

The university says there is no conclusive evidence any personal information has been stolen but law enforcement officials are investigating. The breached system contains names, Social Security numbers, academic records and payroll documents for current and former students, applicants and employees going back to 1996.

Photoshop by Adobe is the most popular and easy to use photo editing software on the market. They have been around for awhile now and have proved to consumers that they have what they need to make turn their photos into something more than just a picture – but to make it a memory to treasure. In order to make themselves more available to a wider variety of people they have decided to release their basic version of Photoshop for free online.

Customers are still having a few problems with Netflix after their site was down for almost 11 hours. Steve Swasey – the spokesman for Netflix – said that customers will still not be able to access their recommendations and ratings section of the site.

An Internet test was taken this week and it showed that “intelligent” peer-to-peer traffic can dramatically lower network utilization and speed up downloads for any subscribers. Verizon participated in the study – which was headed by Yale University – will be releasing all of the details this week at the Distributed Computing Industry Association’s P2P Market Conference in New York City.

Sprint decided to speed things up for one of its smartphones this week by downloading the ‘Rev. A’ new software that will boost its power at about 1.4 megabits per second. Sprint’s goal is to allow users to surf the mobile Web as fast as they would with a DSL desktop.