iPhone 5 production in full swing

Production of Apple's next iPhone is said to be in full swing, with the company on track to have five million to six million phones ready by the end of the month, according to a new report, reveals Cnet.

Citing anonymous industry sources, supply chain tracker DigiTimes says original equipment manufacturer Foxconn Electronics, which has made Apple goods in the past, is producing 150 000 iPhone 5 units a day.

DigiTimes added that Foxconn is joined by Pegatron Technology, which will produce around 15% of the devices for Apple, but those units may not ship until 2012.

The switch to IPv6 will cause difficulties for law enforcement agencies by opening up billions of domain names and IP addresses, according to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), reports V3.co.uk.

Gary Kibbey, a senior manager on cyber crime at Soca, said at a Westminster Forum event yesterday that the rise in available addresses will make it more important for all Internet stakeholders to take a stand against criminals.

“IPv6 is going to make things very complicated by offering an almost limitless supply of IP addresses, so Internet service providers will need to keep control of rogue elements that will look to exploit this.”

Google has bought popular dining ratings authority Zagat, adding a valuable brand to its content offerings and bolstering its push into the rapidly growing local commerce market, reports Reuters.

Local commerce offers services such as finding a discount from a nearby store, or a review of a neighbourhood eatery, and the world's top search engine plans to compete in this market against Yelp and OpenTable.

The deal, for which Google did not provide financial information, gives it valuable content about restaurants, hotels and nightclubs that can be paired with its popular online maps and mobile search services.

Research company Gartner reduced its forecast for 2011 worldwide PC unit growth to just 3.8%, after forecasting 9.3% growth three months ago, says Computing.co.uk.

The forecast was reduced due to the poor sales projections for the US and Western Europe for the second half of 2011. The 2012 forecast was also altered from 12.8% to 10.9% annual growth.

“The increasingly pessimistic economic outlook is causing both consumer and business sentiment to deteriorate in both regions,” says Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner.

The micro-blogging site Twitter has said active users have passed the 100 million mark, but it has no plans to become a public company, writes the BBC.

The company's chief executive told a news conference it was preparing to increase its business range by broadening the areas of its service where adverts appear.

But Dick Costolo also said he wanted the business to remain independent. He said active users, who log on at least once a month, rose 82% this year.