Apple shop pelted with eggs in Beijing after iPhone 4S fails to go on sale
Angry customers threw eggs at Apple's flagship Beijing store today after its opening for the Chinese launch of the iPhone 4S was cancelled due to concerns over the size of the crowd. Apple reacted to the scuffle by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China stores to protect the safety of customers and employees. It said the phone will still be sold online and through its local carrier.
The Mirror

Recruit specialist ICT teachers, says Royal Society report
The biggest challenge in the ongoing fight to improve ICT skills in the UK is the dearth of specialist ICT teachers, according to an IT education report released today by science and technology body the Royal Society. The report, called Shut down or restart? The way forward for computing in schools deals with some of the same issues as two previous reports released last year, one from school inspection body Ofsted and the other from National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), that both criticised the quality of computing teaching in the UK.
Computing

New 4G auction plan could clear deadlock
A key change in the new proposals, published on Thursday, is the scrapping of previous plans to reserve a chunk of 800MHz spectrum for Everything Everywhere — something that had irked rivals O2 and Vodafone. The auction, set to take place at the end of this year, will contain spectrum in both the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands.
ZDNet

Ericsson completes Telcordia acquisition
Telecom technology and services provider Ericsson has completed the acquisition of mobile, broadband and enterprise communications software and services provider Telcordia. Telcordia is now a part of the Ericsson Group and its approximately 2,600 workforce have been absorbed by Ericsson. Under the acquisition, Telcordia will be managed by Ericsson's business unit Multimedia but sales and margins will be shared between Multimedia and Services depending on the portfolio mix.
CBR

American Express fixes critical security vulnerability
Charge card company American Express has fixed a security vulnerability on its web site that allowed SQL injection and, therefore, direct access to its server's database. The company acted after The H's associates at heise Security forwarded a tip-off from one of its readers. Student Nils Kenneweg had discovered that the pages of the American Express web site did not adequately filter data passed to a search function, thereby allowing direct access to the database server. He sent a message about this SQL injection problem to the heise Security team, who were able to reproduce it; the information was then passed on to American Express.
Heise Online

I didn't fire Steve Jobs, says former Apple CEO John Sculley
Apple's former chief executive John Sculley has revealed details of his relationship with Steve Jobs in an interview with the BBC. In the interview, Scully said that he hadn't read Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs but welcomed the fact that the book had cleared up some "myths" about his relationship with the Apple co-founder.
MacWorld

10 best Ultrabooks at CES 2012
Is 2012 going to be the year of the Ultrabook? At this year's subdued CES, these MacBook Air-a-likes are everywhere. But there's more to this new category than a super-skinny chassis. According to Intel, Ultrabooks also have "ultra-capabilities" - security features, battery power, instant-on and standby. They'll provide a lightweight alternative to tablet devices for people who just can't work without a full QWERTY keyboard.
Tech Radar

Microsoft planning real-time feed of valuable threat data
Microsoft is preparing to offer threat intelligence as a real-time feed that companies can use to evaluate threats and develop better defences. A post on the Kaspersky Labs Threat Post blog explains, “Microsoft collects the data by leveraging its huge Internet infrastructure, including a load-balanced, 80gb/second global network, to swallow botnets whole -- pointing botnet infected hosts to addresses that Microsoft controls, capturing their activity and effectively taking them offline.”
ComputerWorldUK

Razer’s Project Fiona redefines tablet gaming
Debuting at CES 2012, Project Fiona is a Windows 8 gaming tablet with two joysticks on each side to deliver the kind of gaming experiences you just don’t find on tablets. It’s an ambitious idea that its makers hope could revolutionise tablet and touchscreen gaming. Project Fiona may look like a plaything, but underneath are some powerful specs. Will gamers really going to play games on it?
The Gadget Show