News Corp debuts iPad daily paper

News Corp's Rupert Murdoch is extending his media empire once again - this time with a digital newspaper for the iPad called the Daily, reports the BBC.

Murdoch told an audience at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York, that he hoped it would be an "indispensable source of news" in the tablet era.

The Daily will cost 99c a week and will be sold exclusively via Apple's iTunes store. The paper will initially only be available in the US and the company has hired about 100 journalists to work on it.

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is experiencing a backlash from privacy groups who say its decision to drop an investigation into a BT data breach is "incredibly dangerous", notes Computing.co.uk.

In September last year, an employee of BT's Plusnet subsidiary e-mailed details of more than 500 of its customers to ACS:Law as unencrypted data. The data contained names, addresses and telephone numbers.

This information was later leaked onto the Internet after ACS was attacked by online activists, prompting the investigation by the ICO.

Research In Motion (RIM) has confirmed it is starting to roll out an upgrade to its App World software store, writes V3.co.uk.

Version 2.1 of the store will add a number of features, most significantly the ability to download applications that contain payment systems which deliver via the BlackBerry Payment Service.

Developers can build the purchasing systems into applications using tools in the BlackBerry Payment Service SDK, which was released in January. The move will close a technological gap with Apple's App Store, which already includes such payment systems.

Hacker activists started attacking Egyptian government Web sites yesterday, apparently taking them offline soon after the country restored Internet service, according to the Associated Press.

An Internet forum run by a loose international group that calls itself “Anonymous” directed participants to attack the Web sites of the Egyptian Ministry of Information and the ruling National Democratic Party.

Neither was accessible from New York yesterday afternoon. In a Twitter post, the group claimed credit for taking down the ministry's Web site and said the group was motivated by a desire to support Egyptian protesters.