The Insider News

All Things D[^]:

A U.S. investigation into Microsoft Corp.’s relationships with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign officials in return for contracts includes activity in Russia and Pakistan, a sign that the probe is wider reaching than previously known, according to people familiar with the matter.

Rob Conery[^]:

Here’s the thing – people like to say whatever framework their not using sucks. "Sucks", really? Two-way binding, route handlers, and dynamic events pushing data into a remote API within an hour - that used to take thirty years to do that and you thought you would die on the way there and have a baby. You’d be a whole different group of developers when you got there.

Discover Magazine[^]:

A new method that takes the pulse of the general public via Wikipedia activity can predict how a movie will fare up to a month before it hits theaters.

Gluster[^]:

When people download software from SourceForge, or any major repository of Open Source software, they expect the software to be trustworthy. (baring unintentional bugs). They do not expect the software to be a source of “drive by installer” style malware, spyware, adware, or any other unrelated/unintended software.

The Guardian[^]:

Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth tells Guardian: US carriers and Asian handset manufacturers are interested in building phones with Ubuntu Mobile to capture 25% of smartphone buyers

Computerworld[^]:

Users want a real Start menu on Windows 8, and Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, is happy to oblige. It just announced that Lenovo PCs will come with the Pokki app, which includes a real Start button and menu, not the useless Start button that will ship with Windows 8.1. Even worse for Microsoft: It lets users bypass the Windows Store to download apps and games.

News.com[^]:

Yahoo bumps Google from the top spot on ComScore's list of 50 most-visited Internet properties, a position held by Google since 2008.

Jon Udell[^]:

I’ve always thought that everyone should have the option to communicate securely. Once there was little chance any ordinary person would be able to figure out how to do it. Even for me, as a tech journalist who had learned both the theory and practice of secure communication, it was a challenge to get things working. And when I did, who could I talk to? Only someone else who’d traveled the same path. The pool of potential communication partners was too small to matter.

Infoworld[^]:

If you want to stay sought-after and raise your rate, you should be acquainted with the following technologies. Why listen to me? Because I get a unique bird's-eye view as a developer straddling a management, marketing, and sales roles. My informal survey says: This is the least you should familiarize yourself with by next year.

Investment Watch[^]:

According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely through a built-in backdoor. Keys to that backdoor are likely accessible to the NSA – and in an unintended ironic twist, perhaps even to the Chinese.