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• 22 February 2012

• 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:

• News: BAE Systems signs procurement services deal

  BAE Systems has signed a new contract with outsourcer Xchanging for procurement services.

• Opinion: Thunderbird Tips: IMAP Subscriptions, Email Replies

  Recently I shared a Thunderbird tip on how to mark a message as read when you reply. See, I'm test-driving Thunderbird as a potential replacement for Microsoft Outlook. It's getting the job done, but I occasionally find myself grumbling about settings that should be easy to find--but aren't.

• News: Teradata partners with Hortonworks on Hadoop

  Growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of Apache Hadoop.

• News: Remains of the Day: Fishy business

  Microsoft dips its toes in the coy pond over a supposed iOS version of Office, a roundup of uninteresting iPad 3 rumors flounders, and Apple may be swimming upstream in its Chinese trademark case. Give a man the remainders for Tuesday, February 21, 2012 and he'll read for a day--teach a man the remainders for...yeah, I don't know where I'm going with that one.

• News: Microsoft Office to Become Available on Apple's iPad? Don't Believe the Hype

  Microsoft now denies it will release Microsoft Office for the Apple iPad, despite a recent screenshot and report from The Daily.

• 21 February 2012

• News: Office on iPad a 'tough decision' for Microsoft, says analyst

  Renewed rumors that Microsoft will publish iPad editions of some of its Office applications surfaced today, with one analyst calling the move a tough decision.

• News: Oracle again waives extended support fees for E-Business Suite

  Oracle has given customers running version 12.0 of its E-Business Suite software a reprieve from extended support fees, which would have kicked in this month, increasing the maintenance payments they were already making.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best display?

  PC Advisor reviews the best 5 LCD monitors on sale in the UK today.

• News: Twitter teams with Russian search engine

  Russian search firm Yandex will display a feed from Twitter in its search engine results, the two companies announced today.

• News: RIM launches BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0

  Research in Motion today released the second generation operating system for its Blackberry Playbook tablet, finally adding an integrated email client and native calendar and contacts apps to its much-maligned tablet.

• News: UK Government plans database of citizens' email, phone and web use

  The UK Government will require ISP, phone and mobile companies to store details of all subscriber phone calls, emails, texts and websites visited for a year under plans designed to aid the police and intelligence services.

• 20 February 2012

• Opinion: Google Privacy Fiasco Lesson: There Is No Privacy

  Google is in some hot water for bypassing privacy controls on the Safari Web browser in iOS devices--and allegedly on Internet Explorer as well--to surreptitiously track users' online activities. While Google deals with the backlash and regulatory scrutiny from the FTC, there is an important lesson to be learned: privacy is dead.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best projector?

  PC Advisor reviews the best projectors you can buy in the UK today.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best smartphone?

  PC Advisor selects the best 5 smartphones available in the UK right now, using our hundreds of mobile phone reviews to choose the best blend of price and performance.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best portable hard drive?

  PC Advisor reviews the Top 5 best portable hard drives you can buy in the UK right now.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best netbook?

  We review the best 5 netbooks you can buy in the UK right now.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best budget laptop?

  If you need an affordable, portable laptop, a netbook isn’t always your best option. PC Advisor picks out the best 5 sub-£600 models and puts them through their paces.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best printer?

  PC Advisor reviews the Top 5 best 5 printers you can buy in the UK right now.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best high-end laptop?

  PC Advisor reviews the best high-end laptops available in the UK today.

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