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John Frank / TechNet Blogs:
Our Commitment to Compliance  —  Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is reviewing allegations that Microsoft business partners in three countries may have engaged in illegal activity, and if they did, whether Microsoft played any role in these alleged incidents.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to leave Adobe for Apple, report to Bob Mansfield  —  According to a tweet issued by CNBC, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will leave the company this week to join Apple.  Neither Apple nor Adobe have confirmed the claim.  Update: Adobe has confirmed in an SEC filing that Lynch departed the firm.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Why did Apple hire Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch?  —  Just hours after word leaked that Apple had poached Adobe's chief technology officer, the Internet is ablaze with the question of what, exactly, the iPhone maker plans to do with Kevin Lynch.  —  Source: Adobe  —  No Flash in the pan
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot  —  Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot.  We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departure …
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Jawbone Takes Next Step in Fitness-Tracking Race, Launches UP for Android  —  Four months after its re-launch on iPhone, the Jawbone UP activity tracker is finally coming to Android.  —  The Jawbone UP wristband and compatible mobile app will now work the with the Samsung Galaxy SII …
Ethan Smith / Digits:
End of an Era for eMusic, Subscription Music Pioneer  —  eMusic, the online music service that pioneered the subscription approach before Spotify was a glimmer in Daniel Ek's eye, quietly merged Monday with an e-book distributor, in an unusual bit of digital-media consolidation.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The 49ers' plan to build the greatest stadium Wi-Fi network of all time  —  49ers CTO Kunal Malik (left) and Senior IT director Dan Williams (right) stand in front of Santa Clara Stadium.  —  When the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium opens for the 2014 NFL season, it is quite likely …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft tempts Windows developers with $100 cash for new apps  —  Microsoft wants Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers to create apps for its platforms, and it's tempting them by offering up hard cash.  In a new US marketing effort, Microsoft is offering developers $100 per app …
Don Reisinger / CNET:
What 420,000 insecure devices reveal about Web security  —  Using a simple technique, a researcher creates a benign botnet to survey the breadth of the Internet, and finds a back door flung wide open and beckoning the bad guys.  —  A researcher used a simple, binary technique to take control …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter  —  Although Twitter famously has a pending patent on the familiar “pull-to-refresh” gesture, the company may have just acquired something more valuable: a patent on the Twitter messaging service itself.  The new patent issued today with Twitter founders Jack Dorsey …
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Nvidia CEO unveils next two gens of Tegra, dubbed Logan, Parker  —  Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth.  —  Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today talked up the chipmaker's next two generations of mobile chip …
Will Connors / Digits:
BlackBerry Co-Founders Bankroll $100 Million Quantum-Science Fund  —  The two men who started BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. some 30 years ago are bankrolling a $100 million investment fund targeting commercial applications for advancements in quantum science.
Frank Konkel / Federal Computer Week:
Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal  —  In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years.  —  Amazon Web Services will help …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Microsoft confirms ‘high-profile’ employee Xbox Live accounts hacked  —  The hack used SSNs in a “stringed social engineering” attack involving another company  —  As more of the story about the simultaneous cyber attack and real-world “Swatting” carried out against security researcher Brian Krebs comes …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Google's NCAA bracket demonstrates how far it has strayed from its original promise  —  Once upon a time, Google was the best search engine in the land.  It cut through all the other Web portal noise to just give you plain results.  Along the way, Google realized that there are actually nice benefits …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
BlackBerry software ruled not safe enough for essential government work  —  Computer Experts Security Group rejects BB10 software in new Z10 handset, dealing blow to Canadian firm in key market  —  BlackBerry's new BB10 software has been rejected by the British government as not secure enough …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Offer Internet Service in Olathe, Kansas  —  Google Inc. said Tuesday it would offer high-speed Internet service in the city of Olathe, Kan., a Kansas City suburb with around 125,000 residents.  —  The plan marks the first expansion of Google Fiber, an Internet and video service …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs  —  Amazon is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindle blog Tuesday.  It can be integrated into WordPress blogs as well.
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Google Implements DNSSEC Validation for Public DNS  —  Google on Tuesday announced that it now fully supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) validation on its Google Public DNS resolvers.  —  Previously, the search giant accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but didn't actually perform validation.
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Chameleon botnet steals millions from advertisers with fake mouseclicks  —  Security researchers have discovered a botnet that is stealing millions of dollars per month from advertisers.  The botnet does so by simulating click-throughs on display ads hosted on at least 202 websites.
Donna Tam / CNET:
At $236, Galaxy S4 costlier to produce than S3, says report  —  IHS iSuppli's virtual teardown of the lasted Samsung smartphone shows it's 15 percent more expensive for Samsung to produce than last year's model.  —  The Samsung Galaxy S4's production costs are 15 percent higher …

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