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Microsoft's BPOS-Federal suite of online business applications has been certified for use by the US government. Which highlights the fact that it wasn't certified earlier.

The Cupertino, Calif., company surprised Wall Street on Wednesday with the news that sales of the iPad had declined from 7.33 million units in the first quarter of fiscal 2011 to 4.69 million in the second quarter.

Facebook has always tried to make its safety features social, like everything else on the website: the company’s theory is “by keeping each other informed, people make Facebook a more trusted environment.”

Whatever you think of Microsoft’s attempt to carve out a new category of “native” HTML5 applications, there’s no question that Microsoft’s own applications are going to be influenced.

Today Apple Insider published a report suggesting that Apple will begin production of the iPhone 5 this September for an October release.

Twitter is reportedly in talks to buy TweetDeck for approximately $50 million.

Microsoft has quietly released Facebook for Windows Phone 1.5. There doesn’t appear to be too much changed, though the new app is reportedly slightly faster and slicker to use (moving between screens and scrolling is much smoother).

"It has been brought to our attention that, were you to install a malicious third-party application onto your Android device, then it could access the locally stored Skype for Android files," Skype rep Adrian Asher confirmed.

First came a great search engine. Then a world-beating ad platform, a hugely popular e-mail service, a great news aggregator, and then a customized Pac-Man game. And now, meet Google's latest masterpiece, it's first--and maybe last--silent film.

A recent private-market transaction on SharesPost, an online marketplace for private investments, has given Facebook a valuation of $80 billion.