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• 03 February 2012

• News: Office 365's Lync Online to gain interop with consumer IM networks

  Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365, will gain interoperability with non-Microsoft IM networks.

• News: Google aims for higher government security accreditation for Apps

  Google is looking to gain higher security accreditations that would enable wider use of Google Apps by the UK government.

• News: Apple removes, than replaces products from German online store

  Apple on Friday removed some of its products from its online store serving Germany due to a court injunction in its dispute with Motorola, but shortly after it removed the products a suspension of that injunction allowed Apple to again start selling them.

• News: German gov't endorses Chrome as most secure browser

  Germany's cyber security agency today recommended that Windows 7 users run Google's Chrome browser, citing the application's sandbox and auto-update features.

• News: Smartphone shipments outpaced PCs in 2011 for first time

  Smartphone shipments overtook personal computers -- including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops -- for the first time in 2011, according to Canalys.

• News: EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

  EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache.

• News: AMD Targets Ultrabooks, Shows 18mm Trinity Notebook

  AMD is preparing a super-thin laptop that could give Intel-based Ultrabooks a run for their money, with reportedly better graphics performance and battery life. The 18mm-thick reference laptop, which AMD showed at its recent financial analyst day, was built by Compal and showcases AMD’s next-generation Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), codenamed Trinity, which is due later this year.

• News: Mobile devices drive Twitter use in Africa, report says

  The rapid increase in the number of mobile devices in Africa is driving growth of Twitter usage, as people in the region eagerly adopt social media communications, according to recently released research by Portland Communications.

• News: iPhone 5 'to be revealed at WWDC in June'

  Apple is planning to unveil the sixth-generation iPhone at the WorldWide Developers Conference scheduled for June, a report has claimed.

• News: Readdle adds Remarks to growing field of note-taking apps

  Readdle has launched a new note-taking app for the iPad, one that lets users share notes with collaborators or view the documents as PDFs on their home computer.

• News: Will Europe Upend Google's New Privacy Plan?

  European data protection authorities are asking Google to delay its roll out of a new consolidated privacy policy that will further integrate your personal information across all of Google's services. The European Union's Article 29 Working Party, a European umbrella organization that includes 27 data protection authorities in the EU, sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page Thursday asking for more time to study the company's policy update.

• News: More Details Emerge on the Fully Open 'Spark' Tablet

  Ever since the news broke last weekend that a fully open tablet is on the way, the excitement has been tangible in the Linux community.

• News: Facebook Members Get More Than They Give

  Most Facebook users get more from their "friends" on the social network than they give to their friends, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Friday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

• News: Managing the unmanageable

  Cloud firewall management vendors unleash new wares aimed to taming virtual firewall sprawl.

• News: Skype 5.8 For Windows Brings Facebook Video Calling

  Skype’s newest software for Windows allows you to make video calls to all your friends on Facebook, even if they aren't Skype users. Version 5.8 also brings full HD video calling (with compatible webcams), and group screen sharing as a premium feature.

• News: Leaked EU memo highlights concerns over data retention law

  Digital rights groups in Europe have called for a ban on blanket data retention after a leaked internal memo from the European Commission admitted that there are significant problems with the current E.U. Data Retention Directive.

• News: Anonymous releases recording between FBI, UK law enforcement

  The politically-motivated hacking group Anonymous released on Friday a 17-minute recording of a conference call between U.S. and British law enforcement agents coordinating an ongoing investigation into the group.

• News: Danish police drop massive IT project

  The Danish national police have dropped an IT project known as Polsag, that had been under development by CSC and involved delays and cost overruns.

• Video: Video: The Byte - Not Stringer's fault, Google fined, Playbook cut, Android Market cleaned

  The Byte, Feb. 3, 2012 Today on The Byte: Sony CEO Howard Stringer said that Sony's losses aren't his fault. Google has to pay a fine to a French mapping company for undercutting competitors. RIM cuts the price of its Playbook again, hoping to clear out inventory. Android Market malware is reduced by 40 percent by an application scanner called Bounce.

• News: FAQ about the VeriSign data breaches

  A VeriSign filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that the company suffered more than one data breach in 2010, raising questions about how secure the company's products are and what customers should do about it.

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