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• 30 November 2011

• News: Google Translate glitch opens security hole

  Developers moving to the upcoming paid version of Google Translate need to follow the documentation so their implementation of the package doesn't lead them to paying for someone else's use of the platform.

• News: Salesforce.com rolls out social marketing cloud

  Salesforce.com on Wednesday rolled out the Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud, a new set of services that builds on its core CRM (customer relationship management) software.

• News: Laptops of 2012: What to Expect

  Tablets and smartphones are in, but don't count laptops out. Impressive new laptops planned for 2012 promise to be thinner, lighter, and faster, as well as to carry longer-lasting batteries.

• Opinion: Living Earth HD for iPhone and iPad

  While the help menu for Living Earth HD proclaims that it’s not “a replacement for the Google Earth app,” the iPhone and iPad utility from developer Mosen Chan is still a pretty good time and weather app.

• News: Lawmaker dissatisfied with Amazon's answers on Kindle Fire's data harvesting

  Amazon told a Massachusetts congressman that the Silk browser in its Kindle Fire tablet doesn't pose a privacy threat to consumers, but the lawmaker wasn't ready to give the online retailer a pass.

• News: Facebook IPO could value company at £64bn

  Social networking company Facebook could be considering an initial public offering (IPO) for the second quarter of 2012, according to rumours swirling on the web.

• News: MobileIron's management software prepares for Android

  MobileIron hopes to help businesses prepare for what it believes will be an onslaught of Android phones in 2012 with an updated version of its mobile device management software.

• How-Tos: How to set Parental Controls in iTunes

  Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

• Feature: Best Android apps: Five Android apps for social networks

  The majority of smartphone users access social networks from their handset.

• News: British American Tobacco mobilises workforce

  British American Tobacco has embarked on a company-wide mobilisation strategy with the help of a new mobile management platform.

• News: Mobile Fusion will play BES role for future RIM devices

  BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, announced Tuesday, isn't just Research In Motion's first entry in the race to manage enterprises' whole mobile environments. It's also positioned to ultimately succeed the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

• News: FCC riles AT&T by releasing report on T-Mobile merger

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has allowed AT&T to withdraw its application to buy the mobile licenses owned by T-Mobile USA, as AT&T had requested, but the agency has also released a staff report that disputes many of the benefits the two mobile carriers claimed the merger would produce.

• 29 November 2011

• News: Google: Mobile marketing a must for Hong Kong retailers

  Hong Kong retailers must make the best use of mobile marketing to reach targeted customers before Christmas, said Google recently when releasing results of a study on people and their smartphone usage.

• News: Apple releases Safari 5.1.2 with PDF viewing support, bug fixes

  Apple on Tuesday released Safari 5.1.2 for Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and Windows. The release enhances some of the browser's features, fixes bugs, and improves overall stability.

• Opinion: Microsoft Wants to Turn Your Android or iPhone Into a Windows Phone

  Microsoft is pretty excited about Windows Phone 7.5 =, and that's probably why they're now showing it off with an HTML5-based demo that's meant to be enjoyed on iPhones and Android phones.

• News: 12 valuable tools for managing business Macs

  The knock on managing Macs in business environments has long been Apple's ambivalent attitude toward providing significant enterprise support. Apple does, of course, offer tools for deploying, configuring, and managing Macs. But to move Macs beyond a departmental setting, IT will often find it necessary to look to third parties for help.

• News: Ten Signs Technology is Everywhere

  IT is showing up in the most unusual places, from touch-screen tables at a London restaurant to virtual-reality therapy for soldiers returning from Iraq. Check out these tech applications compiled by CIO magazine editors

• News: Android, iPhone still top U.S. smartphones, Nielsen says

  Android again was the dominant mobile operating system among U.S. mobile subscribers in the third quarter, while Apple was still the largest smartphone maker, Nielsen reports.

• News: Crazy popular Google I/O conference stretched to 3 days, moved to June

  Google has announced that its increasingly popular Google I/O conference, which this year sold out in 59 minutes, will be stretched from two days to three and moved from May to June in 2012.

• News: Alfred launcher app hits version 1.0

  Eat your heart out, Bruce Wayne: Now everybody can have their very own Alfred. The folks at Running with Crayons have officially released version 1.0 of their launcher utility.

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