今日科技：本•拉登新闻助Twitter创造纪录，索尼在线遭受黑客攻击

    • 日前，RIM宣布对其智能手机操作系统进行重大更新——推出了黑莓7（Blackberry 7），首批搭载该系统的智能手机黑莓Bold 9900/9930将于今年夏天上市。该款新手机将配备1.2GHz处理器、图形处理单元（GPU）、768MB内存、2.8英寸触摸屏、支持720p高清录像功能的500万像素摄像头以及8GB内置存储空间。黑莓7操作系统能提供更加便捷的用户体验和语音搜索功能。不过，新操作系统将不再支持旧款黑莓手机，这意味着目前所有的黑莓用户都将无法将自己的手机升级到黑莓7。[瘾科技（Engadget）和Boy Genius Report]

    • 上周日晚，奥萨马•本•拉登的死讯引发互联网流量大幅飙升。Twitter是很好的例子：Twitter当时的最高流量达到每秒5106条微博，这是Twitter历史上第二高的流量，仅次于日本迎接2011年新年时创下的记录。不过上周日晚Twitter的平均流量创造了新纪录，达到每秒3000条微博。（CNNMoney）

    • 据报道，Twitter以大约4000万到5000万美元收购了第三方服务提供商TweetDeck。这笔交易应该会在未来几天正式公布。（TechCrunch）

    • PlayStation Network被黑的新闻还未烟消云散，如今又爆出索尼在线娱乐（Sony Online Entertainment）的服务器遭受黑客攻击。黑客非法访问了2460万用户的账号信息并盗窃了12700个非美国信用卡账号。（瘾科技）

    • 博客网站Huffington Post的编辑贾亚•辛哈被雅虎（Yahoo）挖到该公司出任总编辑。Huffington Post称辛哈做出此决定主要是因为工作地点的问题。（辛哈目前在Huffington Post需要在纽约工作，而他的家人居住在加州。）（All Things D）

    • 《财富》的丹•普瑞马克最先爆料，Gaia Online的首席执行官克雷格•谢尔曼已经同意加盟Meritech Capital Partners，成为这家风险投资公司的第五位合伙人。（《财富》）

    • 在最近接受采访时，维基解密（Wikileaks）创始人朱利安•阿桑奇称Facebook是“有史以来人们发明出的最厉害的间谍机器”，并表示谷歌（Google）、雅虎（Yahoo）以及其他美国大型机构也都同Facebook一样。该采访的编辑版本见此。[The Next Web援引《今日俄罗斯》（Russia Today）]

    译者：项航

    Research In Motion announced a major update to its smartphone operating system, BlackBerry 7, and the first smartphone to come loaded with it, the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, due out some time this summer. The new device sports a 1.2 GHz processor, graphics processing unit (GPU), 768 MB RAM, 2.8-inch touschscreen, 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording capability, and 8 GB of onboard storage. The BlackBerry 7 OS itself should offer an easier and faster user experience and voice-activated search. No legacy support though, which means all current BlackBerry owners can't upgrade their devices with it. (Engadget and Boy Genius Report)

    • News of Osama bin Laden's death sent Internet traffic through the roof Sunday night. Case in point: Twitter users shot off 5,106 tweets a second at the news event's peak -- second only to Japan's celebration of the 2011 new year -- while the average rate of tweets clocked in at 3,000 per second, a new record. (CNNMoney)

    • Twitter reportedly bought third-party service TweetDeck for somewhere between $40 million and $50 million; the deal should be announced within the next few days. (TechCrunch)

    • Hot on the heels of the PlayStation Network breach comes news that Sony Online Entertainment's servers have been hacked, too, resulting in illegal access to 24.6 million users' account information and the loss of 12,700 non-U.S. credit card numbers. (Engadget)

    • Yahoo hired away Huffington Post editor Jai Singh to serve as the Internet giant's editor-in-chief, a decision the Huff Post says was based primarily on location. (Singh's current job required him to work in New York, but his family lives in California.) (All Things D)

    • Colleague Dan Primack broke the news that Gaia Online CEO Craig Sherman has agreed to join Meritech Capital Partners as the venture capital firm's fifth partner. (Fortune)

    • In his most recent interview, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange calls Facebook the "most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented" and makes sure to lump in Google, Yahoo and other major U.S. organizations into that category as well. Here's an edited version of the sit-down. (Russia Today via The Next Web)