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Twitter now requires encrypted API communication

Third party Twitter apps must now converse with Twitter through the SSL protocol

Apple will pay out $32.5M to settle FTC iTunes complaints

FTC targeted Apple's iTunes billing practices around children's purchases

Six tips for BYOD Security from IBM

Big, small or in between, everyone can use these.

Google stages coup against Windows 8 with Chrome OS-like update for ‘Metro’

Chrome 32 adds several major features previewed last fall, patches 11 security bugs

Kanye West sues Amazon, others in massive digital currency smackdown

Efforts to launch the digital currency Coinye appear to be abandoned

Seeing more ads on Twitter? It might depend on who you are

Users have privacy options to turn the feature off, the social network said

IBM Looks to Outsmart Big Data Competition With Watson

Patch Tuesday: Fairly quiet on the Microsoft front

Security analysts advise applying critical Oracle and Adobe patches before the Microsoft ones

Facebook to gain street cred in Russia, with help from Yandex

Public posts from Facebook users overseas will start appearing within Yandex's search results

New Windows 9 rumors confirm the old Windows 9 rumors

When one source independently confirms another, can you consider it true? Or at least hope for it?