Microsoft provides an official release date for Internet Explorer 9, a smartphone card-reader app gets (wrongfully) attacked, Apple releases its iOS/Mac development platform for anyone to tinker with, and the Google Apps Marketplace celebrates its first birthday.
- Microsoft promises final IE 9 to be downloadable on March 14
Microsoft has publicly announced that it will provide a final Internet Explorer 9 release on March 14, introducing it as part of a SXSW presentation. [ZDNet] - Click-to-call emergency information
Google incorporates click-to-call with emergency numbers, so you can skip the extra step of dialing. [Google Mobile Blog] - Xcode on the Mac App Store
For just $4.99, anyone can grab Apple's official iOS and Mac development platform and create a fully functional iPhone or desktop app—and even release that Mac app independently. Submitting to the iOS or Mac App Stores still requires a $99/year subscription, however. [Mac App Store] - Happy 1st birthday to the Google Apps Marketplace
One year later, there are 300 apps available for users running Google's services on their own sites, including 10 of our early favorites. [Official Google Blog] - The Overblown Square Credit Card Reader Security Disaster
When you hand your card over to any merchant, their card reader grabs only the information you can actually see on the card—and, yes, scammers sometimes swipe your card maliciously. One provider of credit verification services wants you to think that's somehow different for smartphone card-reader service Square. [Gizmodo] - The end of Ubuntu Netbook edition
Because the next release of the Ubuntu Linux desktop is using the same Unity interface formerly exclusive to the "Netbook Edition," the two are being merged, and Ubuntu Desktop becomes just "Ubuntu" for any system. [OMG Ubuntu]