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• 16 February 2013

• How-Tos: Create a newsletter in Microsoft Word

  Using nothing more than Microsoft Word, here's how to put together a newsletter that won't look amateurish.

• News: Google retail stores could be a smart move, analysts say

  Opening its own brick-and-mortar retail stores could help Google sell more of its Chromebooks, Nexus tablets and other hardware, analysts said Friday, reacting to online reports that Google may soon be coming to the local shopping mall.

• 15 February 2013

• Opinion: Infographic: The top 10 productivity-killers (and how to beat them)

  Time is on your side, at least according to Mick Jagger. (Think: song lyric.) But it rarely seems that way when you get to the end of the day and realize you didn't have nearly enough of it. Where on earth does the time go?

• News: Facebook targeted by hackers, says no user data compromised

  Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised.

• News: 13 IT security myths debunked

  They're security myths, oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that...simply aren't true. As we did a year ago, we've asked security professionals to share their favorite "security myths" with us. Here are 13 of them (if you'd prefer to zip through a slideshow version of this, click here)

• News: Smartphone app puts NT Government tenders in reach

  The Northern Territory government has unveiled an app for iPhone, Android and Windows smartphones which will allow users to access government quotations and tenders.

• News: Facebook defends Graph Search's privacy controls for teens

  Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors.

• News: Intel thinks integration as it moves toward exascale

  Intel's aim is to lead the way in creating the first exaflop supercomputer, so it is making architectural improvements to its processors with the hope to reach that goal between 2018 and 2020.

• News: Source code to original Adobe Photoshop released

  The Computer History Museum announced this week that the source code to the original version of Adobe Photoshop would be made freely available.

• News: Facebook defends Graph Search's privacy controls for teens

  Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors.

• News: SAP looks to score points for its HANA database through new NBA statisics site

  SAP is hoping to nail a slam dunk for its HANA in-memory platform through a partnership with the National Basketball Association on a new HANA-powered statistics website.

• News: Steam lands on Linux, revving up for a living room battle

  The popular PC gaming service Steam is now available for Linux, with 60 supported games in tow.

• News: Obama talks about math, online privacy and an open Internet in Google+ hangout

  During a Google+ 'Fireside Hangout' on Thursday, President Barack Obama talked about his daughters' math and science studies, the benefits of making computer programming a required high school class and the need to keep the Internet open.

• News: PCI DSS: is the cure worse than the disease?

  Complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is prohibitively expensive, and the cost of compliance bears very little relation to the cost of a breach, according to Dave Birch, director of IT consultancy Consult Hyperion.

• News: Salesforce.com's Heroku responds to scalability complaint

  Insufficient documentation on how to performance-tune a legacy Ruby on Rails stack led to a highly publicized complaint from one of the largest customers of Salesforce.com's Heroku PaaS (platform-as-a-service), Heroku has acknowledged.

• News: FCC: US broadband providers deliver close to advertised speeds

  U.S. broadband providers deliver nearly the residential broadband speeds they advertise, with a handful of large providers exceeding the promised service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a new report.

• News: Certificate Authorities Form Group to Educate on SSL Best Practices

  Responding to the increasing number of threats aimed at certificate authorities and the ecosystem of trusted online transactions they represent, seven certificate authorities have come together to form an advocacy group to advance security standards and promote best practices.

• Which smartphone has the highest resolution camera?

  Which smartphone has the highest camera resolution? Read our guide to find out which smartphones have the highest resolution cameras.

• News: Google+ suffers outage Friday morning

  Google+ suffered a site outage Friday morning, prompting users of the social network to complain on both Google+ and Twitter that the site was down or slow to load.

• News: Consumer-friendly telecom rules come into force across EU

  From next Wednesday, all 500 million European Union citizens will be able to switch telecoms operators in one day without changing their phone number and to get information on real connection speeds from the Internet service providers.

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