VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) ? An Internet video is threatening Mexico's Zetas drug cartel with exposure of its allies in the local police and news media this week unless the gang frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as "Anonymous."
The YouTube message, which claims to be from Anonymous "Veracruz, Mexico and the world," says it is "tired of the criminal group the Zetas, which is dedicated to kidnapping, stealing and extortion," and threatens to fight back with information instead of weapons.
It said it knows of police officers, journalists, taxi drivers and others working with the Zetas.
The video refers to an unidentified person kidnapped in the coastal city of Veracruz, and says: "You have made a great mistake by taking one of us. Free him."
The hacker group, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on corporate and government websites worldwide, supposedly will act Friday if the kidnapped activist is not freed or is harmed, according to the message.
"We cannot defend ourselves with weapons, but we can with their cars, houses, bars," the message adds, apparently alluding to properties owned by cartel supporters. "It's not difficult. We know who they are and where they are are."
"Information is free," it says. "We do not forgive. We do not forget."
An official with the Veracruz state attorney general's office, who could not be named because he was not authorized to speak on the record, said the office could not confirm video's authenticity or the case of the kidnapping.
Veracruz, an oil state on the Gulf of Mexico with a major port of the same name, has seen a spike in drug violence in recent months in what authorities say is a battle between the Zetas drug cartel, which has controlled the territory for at least a year, and its rivals. Dozens of bodies have been showing up in recent weeks, including the dumping of 35 last month on a main highway in rush-hour traffic in the city of Boca del Rio.
Two other Internet postings since July have announced the arrival of group that calls itself the "Mata Zetas," or Zeta Killers, who authorities say are likely aligned with the powerful Sinaloa Cartel. Others have raised questions about whether the group's members are vigilantes or other rogue bands taking justice into their own hands against the Zetas.
The new message, presented by someone wearing a theater mask that is a trademark of Anonymous, was reportedly uploaded to websites early this month, but was first reported Friday on the website of the global intelligence think tank Stratfor.
Stratfor, in its analysis of the video, said anyone exposed by Anonymous as a Zetas collaborator ? accurately or not ? would be targeted by rival gangs, and the Zetas could respond by attacking Internet activists even if they are not affiliated with Anonymous.
Three people have been killed recently in the northern states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas by suspected Zetas who apparently believed the victims used the Internet to spread information about the gang.
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Among the big enhancements to iOS 5 is Apple's new iCloud suite, which keeps your mail, contacts, calendars, documents, and other data stored in the cloud and synced to all your Apple devices. Most people currently use Google services for these features, so we played with iCloud for a few days and looked at how they stacked up against one another. Here's what we found. 
One of the biggest differences between both suites is the amount of storage you get. iCloud gives you 5GB for free, for all iCloud services?that means if you fill up that space with documents, you could stop receiving email, and if you get email with huge attachments, you might run out of space for documents or photos. Google, on the other hand, gives you lots more space for free, and splits it up by service: Gmail gets a little over 7GB for free, Google Docs gives you 1GB for uploaded files (but mostly unlimited space for web-created documents), and 1GB of space for high-res photos in Picasa.
Mail's web interface is surprisingly iOS-like, even moreso than Lion's version of Mail. You have three panes, like a traditional mail client, but it has large buttons and only a few options. In fact, it looks nearly identical to the screens you'd get on the iOS version of Mail. Luckily, the buttons along the top include both Archive and Delete, something you don't get with Gmail on iOS. Frustratingly, Gmail only allows you to archive or delete messages, but it doesn't give you the option to put both buttons in your toolbar. iCloud handles this like a champ, making productive email management a lot easier and faster.
The two calendar apps are much more similar. Both allow you to create multiple calendars, color-code them, and attach reminders. iCloud misses out on a few of the smaller features?like assigning an event as "busy" or "free" time, but overall all the basics are the same. The big difference is in shared calendars: In iCloud, you can only collaborate on a calendar with other iCloud users. Google Calendar users can only collaborate with Google users, too, but it's likely that you know more people using Google Calendar than iCloud, so this is a disadvantage for iCloud. You can still add shared Google calendars to iCal. Also note that you can still share iCloud calendars with Google users, but they'll be read-only, so you'll still be the only one able to edit them.
There isn't a huge difference between the two contacts apps. iCloud's address book looks almost exactly like OS X Lion's version of Address Book, only in a larger window. If you really dig down into Address Book, you may notice that Google's contact system?since it runs on Exchange?can't sync certain fields. For example, it only supports "Manager", "Spouse", and "Supervisor" in the relationship field, which can make things like Siri a bit less useful. It's minor, but it is a downside.
iCloud's competitor to Google Docs is "Documents in the Cloud", a service that keeps your Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents in sync between all your iOS devices and the web. However, instead of being a web-based suite of apps, it's merely storage space from which you can download and upload documents. Anything you create in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote on iOS can automatically be saved in the cloud, and your other iOS devices will always have the most up-to-date version of that document. If you want to edit it on your computer, you can go to the iCloud web interface and download any of those documents for editing with your favorite desktop office program.
Photos and music work a bit differently in iCloud than other services, so it's hard to compare the two. Your photos and music aren't actually stored in the cloud, for you to view from anywhere?iCloud just makes them available to all your iOS devices. Any photos you take on your device will automatically show up in your computer's photo library, and vice-versa. But, you won't be able to view or share them on the web. Similarly, iTunes in the Cloud will automatically send new purchased music to all of your devices. It'll also come with iTunes Match, which will make most of your computer's library available for download on all your devices for $24.99 a year. Again, though, you won't be able to access that music from the web or stream it?you can only download it to your other iOS devices. Thus, if you rely on Picasa or Google Music to make that media available to you everywhere, you probably don't want to give it up for iCloud just yet. If you don't use them, though, iCloud can make syncing your devices a lot easier.