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• An Easy Way to Dramatically Improve iPhone (or Any Phone) Security

  This past weekend, as I stood in line at a Whole Foods market in Portland, Maine, waiting to buy delicious Maine beer, I did something kind of sketchy. I'm not proud of it.

• Handwriting recognition keyboard for iOS 8 a blast from the past

  I've been around long enough to remember handwriting recognition's checkered past.

• An H-1B whistleblower tries again for justice

  H-1B whistleblower Jay Palmer has filed a new complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor, alleging that senior executives at Infosys "retaliated against him by denying him work, bonuses and promotions and terminating him."

• DARPA demos lightweight, 94GHz silicon system on a chip

  Looking to bring lighter, more powerful and less expensive systems for various applications such as communications, radar or guidance systems, DARPA said this week it had recently demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz.

• Cisco announces security service linked with new operations centers

  Cisco today announced Managed Threat Defense, a set of security services for the enterprise that Cisco is providing through two new operations centers to remotely support intrusion-detection, incident response and forensics, among other services.

• Qualcomm buys Palm, iPaq patents from HP

  Qualcomm has acquired a large patent portfolio related to Palm, iPaq and the Bitfone device management platform from Hewlett-Packard for an undisclosed sum.

• The NSA blame game: Singling out RSA diverts attention from others

  RSA may have earned much of the criticism being heaped upon it for allegedly enabling a backdoor in one of its encryption technologies under a contract with the National Security Agency. But singling out the company for reproach deflects attention from the role that other technology vendors may have had in enabling the NSA's data collection activities.

• Infosys Visa Fraud Settlement Could Impact IT Offshoring Model and Customers

  An agreement by the Indian IT service provider to pay $34 million to settle claims of visa fraud and abuse could force more outsourcers to reconsider their business models.

• Cisco takes aim at security services with new division

  Cisco today said it would add a security arm to its existing services division with an eye toward pushing its support of its security products as well as offering a range of managed security services.

• Then and now: Doing a mobile startup in 1999 vs. 2013

  For Ty Wang and Amitabh Sinha, co-founders of mobile startup WorkSpot, last year could have felt like déjà vu all over again.

• IBM's Rometty nets $16.2 million in first year as CEO

  IBM CEO Ginni Rometty earned a $16.2 million pay package in 2012, while her predecessor, Sam Palmisano, made more than double that for his role as chairman and senior adviser to IBM.

• The long tease is over: Here's BlackBerry 10

  RIM has unveiled its highly graphical, touch-oriented Peek and Flow user experience in a bid to regain its lost relevance

• Steve Jobs threatened Palm with patent suit if it objected to no-poaching pact

  Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire employees from each other, unsealed court documents show.

• Monday Grok: Again, Groupon is a crock, and the pack smells blood

  Who remembers Groupon? Yep, that's right. The shooting star of dotcom 2.0 IPO and the biggest dotcom stock market blazer since Google has already crashed and burned on the markets.

• Federal court rules for employee in Infosys case

  An Infosys Technologies employee, who alleged in a lawsuit that the Indian offshore outsourcing company wrongly used visitor visas in its work, won a federal court decision that will allow him to bring his case to a jury.