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Are you looking to make good use of your sizable Twitter following?

Here are five simple services that can help monetize your account, potentially putting cash into your pocket and increasing traffic to your profile.

I’ve seen several instances where people have demonstrated the ease with which encrypted cookies can replace sessions within PHP. Michael Nitschinger wrote a piece recently demonstrating the switch with Lithium, while CodeIgniter does this by default (optionally encrypting).

Joyent will use the cash to fund expansion of its cloud services and take on Amazon, the behemoth in that space.

The company hosts its own public cloud services and sells infrastructure that customers use to field their own public or private cloud services.

The Internet giants are considering a ‘nuclear option.’

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The rise of mobile devices poses a conundrum for businesses. On one hand, they can be used to reach the masses in venues that once weren’t accessible by the internet.

Today, literally everywhere many people go has them connected in one way or another. On the other hand, it’s hard to keep people’s attention because of the ease of access; they can be looking at something they want to purchase and change their mind because their mobile phone tells them it’s cheaper down the block or at Amazon.

PC World: "The battle to lead the IT marketplace will 'start to be won and lost' next year, with Amazon's Kindle Fire taking 20 percent of media tablets, and growing Android momentum taking on the mobile OS field."

Amazon’s Kindle Fire, arguably considered a successful 7-inch tablet, is locked down more than people might think.

When trying to browse the Google Android Market website in the Fire’s web browser, the device instead opens up Amazon’s Kindle Fire application store.