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Google has been crowned the ‘king of malware’ by security company Barracuda Networks, linking to twice as much malware as search rivals Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined.

Twitter is having trouble again with a digital certificate that secures communications to its Web site, which has been causing trouble for third-party applications that integrate with it, but the problem may have been fixed.

Digital historian Jason Scott has an eclectic portfolio. At Textfiles.com, he collects files and related materials from the era of dial-up bulletin-board systems. That work led him to create BBS: The Documentary, an eight-episode miniseries about the early history of online culture. His second documentary, Get Lamp, set to debut this week, examines text adventure games through interviews with developers, designers and players. Even if you’ve never heard of Scott, you might have heard of his cat: Sockington, the most-followed animal on Sockington Twitter, has more than 1.5 million followers.

Avaya is working with virtual reality, context engines, and prioritizing relevant Facebook and Twitter entries in an effort to streamline how corporations do business by better managing their communications.

Twitter is moving its technical operations infrastructure into a new, custom-built data center in the Salt Lake City area to better handle the microblogging service’s recent growth spurt.

Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy recently sat down at his office in Basking Ridge, N.J., with Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene to discuss the company’s progress integrating Nortel enterprise assets into the company, the changing nature of the business communications market, the effects of Facebook and Twitter on corporate networks, the impact of Skype, the competition Avaya faces from Cisco and Microsoft and the promise of cloud computing. What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation.

Flipboard, a new iPad application that presents the news links in a user’s Twitter and Facebook media streams in the style of a magazine, launched to immediate adulation on Wednesday but the rush of users meant a few glitches for early adopters.

The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

The way Infoteria sees it, Twitter and Google Calendar are two great services that go great together. So why not mash them up into a single app for the iPhone and iPod touch?

We’re still about two months out from PAX Prime 2010 in Seattle, but already the show is sold out of three-day passes. To keep things interesting, and maybe to offload the remaining one-day passes, the official PAX Twitter account has more news: Warren Spector is their keynote speaker.