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Microsoft inked a protocol licensing agreement with enterprise mobile solutions provider AgreeYa Mobility, the company announced this week.

Why did Steve Jobs cry so much? What's the deal with the iOS 5.0.1 update? How does iTunes Match work? How did Siri's protocol get reverse-engineered?

These questions and more were all answered in our most popular Apple posts of the week. If you need to catch up, you're in the right place.

LinuxBSDos.com : "Jitsi (Romanian for Wires) is a multi-protocol and multi-platform voice and video instant messenger client."

WPAD certainly isn't new technology.

In fact, it's been around for many years.

HowToForge: "FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure."

Montana Linux: "What is SPICE? - It stands for "Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments". What does that mean exactly?

SPICE is a remote display protocol designed specifically for use with the Linux kernel's built-in virtualization hypervisor KVM."

IBM Developerworks: "Many of your Android applications will need to interact with Internet data, which comes in a variety of formats.

In this article, build an Android application that works with two popular data formats—XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—as well as the more exotic protocol buffers format from Google."

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Brian Swan continues his look at using the oData data feeds from PHP with this new look at creating some of the basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations via the oData SDK for PHP.

ars Technica: "Google isn't content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers.

The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://."