Media Coverage

For years, the business world has belonged to Windows. As recently as 2008, technology research firm Forrester Research was telling companies that Windows PCs were the only machines they needed to worry about. Macs were a non-issue—but not anymore.

For Apple fans juggling iPads, iPhones and Macbooks, Apple's iCloud, which launched Wednesday, offers the chance to simplify their digital lives by linking email, calendars, music and photos from multiple devices.

It was a subtle swap: a cheesy advertisement for a vacation timeshare site atop the home page of ESPN.com, in a spot that might have been claimed by a well-known brand like Dr Pepper.

U.S. authorities have charged six Estonians and a Russian with running an Internet scam that infected 4 million computers in 100 countries and redirected searches to advertising sites that generated at least $14 million for the suspects.