the-time

Review: Offline Gmail app good for casual use (AP)

AP – Google’s new software for using Gmail without an Internet connection comes across as a throwback to an era when we weren’t connected all the time and on all sorts of devices, from phones to iPads.

Read the original post: 
Review: Offline Gmail app good for casual use
(AP)

the-time

EU clears Microsoft’s Skype acquisition (Reuters)

Reuters – Microsoft secured EU approval on Friday to purchase internet voice and video service Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest ever acquisition.

Here is the original post:
EU clears Microsoft’s Skype acquisition
(Reuters)

the-time

Americans recall personal impacts of Jobs’ vision (AP)

AP – Steve Jobs urged people to think different, and wowed them when his own different thinking put thousands of songs in their pockets, the power of the Internet at their fingertips and a whole world of possibilities in the palm of their hands.

More: 
Americans recall personal impacts of Jobs’ vision
(AP)

the-time

New e-book club includes works by Alice Walker (AP)

AP – A digital publisher of Pat Conroy, Alice Walker and other writers has formed an online book club with a website that has for years served as a hub for reading groups.

Read more here: 
New e-book club includes works by Alice Walker
(AP)

the-time

Google, Skype, Yahoo Targeted by Rogue Comodo SSL Certificates (PC World)

PC World – Comodo’s tag line is “creating trust online”. That may be true most of the time, but after an attack resulted in nine fraudulent SSL certificates–targeting domains like Google, Yahoo, Skype, and Windows Live–it might be wise to trust Comodo a little less.

The rest is here: 
Google, Skype, Yahoo Targeted by Rogue Comodo SSL Certificates
(PC World)