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Bitcoin gets new friends, but still a bit player

The digital currency is gaining in legitimacy with new supporters

Twitter tightens security against NSA snooping

The company calls on others to embrace 'perfect forward secrecy'

HealthCare.gov to double capacity by end of month

The HHS tech team expects the site to handle 50,000 users at a time by the end of November

Facebook’s Sandberg says teen decline exaggerated

Analysts counter that teens are lured away by Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter

Unify (Formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications) Updates OpenScape 4000

Latest Release is Base Level for Unify’s Upcoming Project Ansible

Google Apps admins get more control over Hangouts

However, the unified communications tool isn't yet an official component of the suite

Microsoft preps mobile app for Office 365 admins

The company also extended the document-sharing options in the suite's SharePoint Online component

One out of seven people use social networks, study shows

Nearly 30% of world population uses sites like Facebook, Instagram, Google+ each month

Mozilla banked $274M in ’12 from Google-Firefox search deal

Google kicked twice as much to browser rival in 2012 than the year before

Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code