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• 22 February 2012

• Opinion: Mozilla's Open Web App Store Will Launch Next Week

  Earlier this month Mozilla laid out a roadmap for its Firefox browser over the course of 2012, and on Wednesday it made good on one key piece of those plans.

• News: Amazon cloud service automates business processes

  Amazon's newest offering, announced Wednesday, is designed to ease application development and automate business processes.

• Opinion: Open Web Links Right Inside Thunderbird

  Reader Dan subscribes to various e-mail lists, and each e-mail he receives contains multiple Web links. Here's his dilemma:

• Opinion: Loyalty Apps Get Real Results: Five to Watch

  Apps that enable companies to reward customers with freebies or discounts for purchases or social-media sharing are relatively new, but already a hit with businesses. Some merchants claim that they offer better ROI than credit card loyalty programs or daily deal sites such as Groupon.

• News: FCC chairman calls on ISPs to adopt new security measures

  U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyberattacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday.

• News: Price of DRAM plunges to all-time low of around $1

  Prices of DDR3 DRAM memory used in laptops and desktops have dipped to an all-time low of around US$1, and will continue to fall, which could help PC makers pack more memory into computers, analysts said.

• Opinion: Google Doodle Hails Heinrich Hertz, Discoverer of Electronic Heartbeat

  Today Google's homepage sports a mesmerizing animated GIF of rolling waves, dolled up in Google's colors, in celebration of the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.

• News: Verizon users whacked with another LTE outage

  Verizon's 4G LTE network has been knocked offline again just two months after its last serious outage.

• News: Expert: Microsoft has itself to blame in browser-privacy flap

  Microsoft is pointing fingers at Google and Facebook for circumventing the privacy mechanism baked into Internet Explorer, but the real problem lies in its own failure to implement the P3P privacy standard well, an expert says.

• News: Air Force abruptly scraps iPad plan for special ops

  The U.S. Air Force has abruptly cancelled a plan to buy nearly 3,000 iPad 2 tablets, just days after a news site raised questions about including a Russian-developed app for encrypting and reading documents.

• Opinion: Versions and Auto Save explained

  Reader Ray Allan asks for a bit more information about Lion's Versions feature. He writes:

• How-Tos: Open and edit documents in old file formats

  One reader wanted to know how he could keep using now defunct file formats on his Windows XP PC. Our Helproom Editor explained how to open and edit older documents on a modern Windows PC and on a Mac.

• News: SAP lays out product direction post-SuccessFactors deal

  SAP on Wednesday released details for its road map for HCM (human capital management) software following the US$3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors, which focuses on cloud-based applications.

• News: Microsoft complains to the EU about Motorola Mobility

  Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for alleged abuse of essential patents.

• News: How IBM Sold Business Analytics by Relying Solely on Partners

  Two years ago, key IBM channel executives abruptly initiated a sea change in the company's go-to-market blueprint to sell predictive analytics and cloud computing (and other newer technologies) to midmarket businesses.

• News: Researcher: 200,000 Windows PCs vulnerable to pcAnywhere hijacking

  As many as 200,000 systems connected to the Internet could be hijacked by hackers exploiting bugs in Symantec's pcAnywhere, including up to 5,000 point-of-sale programs that collect credit card data, a researcher said today.

• News: Google's smart glasses reportedly coming in 2012

  The New York Times reported Wednesday that Google's new Android-based goggles will be priced between $250 and $600, and include a 3G or 4G data connection along with motion and GPS sensors.

• News: BSA: The world is not yet cloud friendly

  The United States is the fourth friendliest country in the world for global cloud interoperability, according to a new study from the Business Software Alliance. But, the organization said a "patchwork" of laws and regulations around the world is holding back cloud adoption internationally.

• News: Juniper buys web security company for $80 million

  Juniper said this week it has acquired Mykonos Software, a provider of website and web application security software, for $80 million.

• News: Apple Store thief can't hold out for iPhone 5

  News reports out of Charlotte, N.C., indicate a "known suspect" swiped 25 iPhones from an Apple Store at Northlake Mall between Dec. 1 and Jan. 11.

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