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RIM Rages Against the Dying of the Developer Light
Make Room for Mini: Will a 7-Inch iPad Make App Devs Sweat?
DNSChanger: Just a Dress Rehearsal
Patent Infringement Bill Rattles RIM
Apple Finds It's Easier to Be Green Than Not
Did Jack Welch Destroy US Productivity?
The Grounding of Mozilla's Thunderbird
Tehula Finds Friends Without Fuss but Flirts With Disaster
Hacker Exploits a Loophole to Score Free App Goodies

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Today's Story Highlights

RIM Rages Against the Dying of the Developer Light
A recent report from Baird Equity Research claims mobile developers are
fleeing from Research In Motion in a mass exodus. However, RIM's
fighting back. The report's findings are far from the truth, according
to Alec Saunders, the vice president of developer relations for the
BlackBerry maker.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75643.html

Make Room for Mini: Will a 7-Inch iPad Make App Devs Sweat?
Some iOS app developers may need to take a long, hard look at their
apps, as rumors about a forthcoming iPad mini continue to gain strength.
"Apps custom-coded with Objective C and the Apple SDKs will need to be
recompiled and rewritten," said George Adams, cofounder and CEO of
ViziApps.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75645.html

DNSChanger: Just a Dress Rehearsal
Despite dire warnings, the Internet didn't break last week when the FBI
pulled the plug on the server controlling the DNSChanger botnet. An
estimated 300,000 computers are still infected by the malware that ties
them to the botnet, which was designed for large-scale click fraud.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75640.html

Patent Infringement Bill Rattles RIM
Today in international tech news: RIM is hit with a $147 million patent
fine; a British ISP looks at the effectiveness of the UK's block on The
Pirate Bay; Apple's $60 million settlement looms over its China iPad
release; the BBC launches its unprecedented Olympic app; and France's
president speaks out on the Twitter soap opera involving his past and
present partners.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75642.html

Apple Finds It's Easier to Be Green Than Not
Apple has reversed course and decided not to drop out of the Electronic
Product Environment Assessment Tool program after all. Effective
immediately, all eligible Apple products are back on EPEAT. Customers'
disappointment over its earlier decision to withdraw is the reason for
the reversal, according to Bob Mansfield, SVP of hardware engineering.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75641.html

Did Jack Welch Destroy US Productivity?
Forced Employee Ranking, a process that ensures incompetence in
companies, has been sourced, as a failure, to Jack Welch -- the guy
credited with turning around GE. I began to wonder if much of what he
was credited with actually created what now appears to be a cancer in
that company, and in Microsoft, and that the reason folks haven't been
able to fix it is because it came from such a well-regarded expert.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75628.html

The Grounding of Mozilla's Thunderbird
There may be no end in sight to the ongoing Secure Boot Saga in the
Windows 8 world, but the same, alas, cannot be said for Mozilla's
Thunderbird. No, as was apparently prematurely revealed by a leaked
email earlier this month, the "end" for the desktop email client may be
all too near now that it's no longer "a priority for Mozilla's product
efforts."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75639.html

Tehula Finds Friends Without Fuss but Flirts With Disaster
Tehula is brand new in the Apple App Store, and I've got to say, I
haven't been so excited about an app in a long time. Faithful readers
will likely recognize that I prefer simple apps that do one basic thing
really well instead of bloated jack-of-all trade apps. And what does
Tehula do? It locates your friends on a map.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75635.html

Hacker Exploits a Loophole to Score Free App Goodies
A Russian hacker has worked out a way to make in-app purchases from iOS
apps without paying. The hacker, who goes by the handle "ZonD," has set
up a website explaining the exploit and has urged Apple to contact him.
ZonD asks visitors to his site to donate money through PayPal and other
means.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75637.html

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