News from ZDNet | | SAP's four dimensions of SaaS success SAP served up an insight into the principles behind its on-demand strategy in a keynote at EuroCloud's annual member congress this week in Luxembourg. Read more | Video: First look at Cisco Cius tablet and AppHQ platform Check out our hands-on video for a quick look at the overall user interface (embedded on top of Android 2.2) as well as how AppHQ functions on the Cisco Cius tablet. Read more | Firefox tries, and fails, to make business amends Mozilla, sort of, backs away from its "Drop dead" approach to enterprise Web-browser users. Read more | Why I don't really care about 'Open' that much any more Not a day goes by when someone doesn't email or post a TalkBack to complain about my personal use (and advocation of) of 'closed' hardware and software. iPhone. iPod. Windows Phone. iPad. Kindle.... Read more | IBM eyes emerging IT in Africa, inks deal in Ethiopia IBM continues building its presence in Africa with a $3 million deal with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia to modernize and expand its IT infrastructure. Read more | E-Books readers sales rise, but are tablets really lagging? OK, so the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook are selling like hotcakes, but does that really mean Apple iPads and Android tablet sales are lagging? I think not. Read more | Swiffy: Google's Flash-to-HTML5 escape hatch Swiffy, a tool that converts most .SWF files into a more browser-friendly HTML5 format, is now available through Google Labs. Read more | Yet another Android vendor pays Microsoft patent royalties Just days after announcing that General Dynamics was paying Microsoft undisclosed patent royalties to cover Android-based devices, Microsoft announced a similar deal with custom-PC vendor Velocity... Read more | Apple posts Final Cut Pro X Q&A, new features coming I know that a lot of you are interested in or already running Final Cut Pro X, and that a subset of you have been having some problems and experiencing issues with this latest release so I thought... Read more | Invite your entire Facebook graph into Google Plus Here's a trick to get everyone from your Facebook social graph into Google Plus:Sign up for a Yahoo! Mail account, and import all of your Facebook contacts. Click "Contacts" at the top, and... Read more | AT&T announces its first Facebook phone: the HTC Status The HTC status, the first device with a dedicated Facebook share button, will be launching on AT&T this summer. Read more | Gallery of galleries: Top 10 sights of the month From the inner walls of a corporate giant to having fun with tech at the beach, there has been a lot to see on ZDNet. We'll take a look at our 10 favorite galleries for June. Read more | |  |  | About this newsletter | The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the people, products, and companies that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief
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