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• 18 June 2013

• News: Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire over takeover plan

  Sprint Nextel sued Clearwire and Dish Network on Monday in a bid to block Dish from taking over Clearwire, Sprint's majority-owned network partner.

• News: Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says

  Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.

• News: How Apple shook up the electronic book market

  Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself.

• News: DreamWorks deal will bring 300 hours of original kids' shows to Netflix

  Netflix may have lost its grip on Dora and Spongebob, but the streaming-video giant hasn't forgotten about kids. (Please, think of the children!)

• 17 June 2013

• Opinion: Vodafone shorts finally let you recharge your phone with your butt

  Vodafone, in partnership with researchers from the University of Southampton, have finally done created a pair of phone-recharging pants called the Power Pocket shorts. Just in time for the sweltering summer, this pair of jean shorts comes with a small patch of thermoelectric material stitched directly into a pair of denim shorts that simply converts body heat into power.

• News: Hands-on with Skype's new video-messaging service

  Skype announced Monday that its video-messaging service, which allows users to send a video of three minutes or less to their Skype contacts, is now out of beta and free to all users.

• News: Proposed e-license plates can be altered remotely and may be used to track you

  A pair of South Carolina lawmakers has introduced legislation that would pave the way for a pilot program involving electronic license plates that could be altered remotely by the state's DMV.

• News: Digg's Google Reader replacement expected to launch in beta next week

  When I launched my beloved Google Reader tab this morning, a pop-up box reminded me of a sad truth I've been trying oh-so-hard to ignore: The service's last day is just around the corner.

• News: Some Aussie data centre operators not measuring power usage: survey

  Thirty-nine per cent out of 100 Australian data centre employees surveyed by Campos Research & Analysis indicated that they were not measuring power usage in their facility.

• News: Role of partners has evolved to solving business problems: Juniper

  Resellers are moving away from the pure product sell to working together to solve business problems for customers, according to Juniper A/NZ vice president, Mark Ablett.

• News: Bing voice search improves accuracy, speed

  In 2012, Microsoft's Rick Rashid blew an Asian audience away with a live translation of his speech into Mandarin. On Monday, Bing added some of that technology to Bing Voice Search, to cut down the processing response time of voice input into Windows Phone by half, while improving accuracy at the same time.

• News: Rambus, STMicroelectronics settle lawsuits, sign patent agreement

  Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements.

• Opinion: Research and compare the latest smartphones at PhoneRocket

  We interrupt your regularly scheduled Hassle-Free PC post to bring you the Hassle-Free Phone edition.

• News: Evernote adds Reminders, extending task-management options

  If, like many, you use Evernote as a sophisticated to-do list, the latest update to the essential software and service is about to dramatically increase its usefulness. Reminders give Evernote a full suite of alarm and notification features, ideal for turning static notes into dynamic action items.

• News: 'Titan' falls: Today's top supercomputer is owned by China, powered by Intel

  China has regained the crown for the fastest supercomputer on the planet, according to the semiannual Top500 list, which claims that the Milky Way-2 supercomputer has doubled the performance of the previous leader, the American "Titan" supercomputer, in just six months.

• News: Latest iPhone 6 concept design inspired by Apple iOS 7 debut

  Within just a few days of Apple unveiling iOS 7 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a creative designer came out with a concept of what iPhone 6 might look like with the new software.

• News: Why we can't stop malicious insiders

  Security experts have been saying for years that insiders -- malicious, careless or simply unaware -- are a greater threat to organizations, both public and private, than hackers.

• News: Scientist out to break Amdahl's law

  Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial computing. One scientist hopes to prove that Amdahl's law can be surpassed, and that it doesn't apply in certain parallel computing models.

• News: Nook tablet price cuts extended indefinitely, but why?

  Barnes & Noble will keep the discounts going on its Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets, citing the "fantastic success" of Father's Day sales.

• News: Samsung may introduce LTE Advanced version of Galaxy S4 in June

  Samsung's Galaxy S4 was only introduced in March and the company has already rolled out Mini and Active variants of its flagship smartphone. Not content with just three basic models, Samsung plans on rolling out a speedier version of the Galaxy S4 in South Korea by the end of June, one report says.

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