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• 03 May 2013

• News: Optus Business restructure integrates Alphawest, NCS

  Optus has completed a business restructuring that integrates Optus Business with Alphawest and SingTel subsidiary NCS. The groups, which serve enterprise and government customers, previously operated separately.

• News: Virgin Mobile grabs Sony Xperia SP

  Virgin Mobile has today announced it will sell the Sony Xperia SP Android phone in Australia. The device is available from today online and at Virgin Mobile stores across the country.

• News: JB Hi-Fi ups guidance on strong sales

  Electronics retailer, JB Hi-Fi, expects net profit after tax to be between $112 million and $116 million, a 7 per cent to 11 per cent rise over last year, driven by stronger than expected sales in the second half of FY13.

• Feature: Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie

  Google's Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie mobile operating system could appear on the Nexus 5 smartphone and Nexus 11 tablet this November. Here's what to expect.

• News: As ex-Nokians at Jolla near smartphone reveal, CEO resigns

  The CEO of Finnish smartphone upstart Jolla is stepping down to focus his energy on the development of the Sailfish operating system as the company gets ready to show its first product later this month.

• News: Facebook rethinks its 'hackathons' with an eye toward mobile

  Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus on mobile.

• News: US mobile data growing while SMS falls, CTIA reports

  U.S. mobile networks carried 69 percent more data traffic in 2012 than in the prior year, but roughly the same number of voice minutes and fewer SMS messages, according to the industry group CTIA.

• 02 May 2013

• News: Hope you like Jelly Bean, because you're not getting Key Lime Pie

  I'll kick off this roundup by eating a little crow -- I pooh-poohed the notion that Google might not be rolling out Key Lime Pie at this year's I/O conference in last week's installment, saying that I'd still be expecting Android 5.0 to show up in San Francisco.

• News: The Macalope: Failure to outrage

  What is the world coming to when the Macalope can't muster up some good old-fashioned indignation? Whether it's his softer side manifesting itself or that big lunch he ate making him sleepy, he just can't get that worked up over comments made by our fine frigid friends in Waterloo.

• News: The best to-do apps on Android

  Modern life is all about doing things. Constantly. Between family, friends, work, pets, and fantasy hockey leagues, something always needs doing. And just when you think you've got all those things done--bam!--it's two in the morning and you wake up in a panic over all those other things you forgot about.

• How-Tos: Make a song your iPhone ringtone

  Bored of the standard iPhone ringtones and text message alerts? We explain how to turn any song you own into a tone on your iPhone. It's easy and takes just a minute using iTunes. UPDATED: 2nd May 2013

• News: Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts

  Launching a new product or business is hard. Sometimes, even computer nerds need a little tech support.

• News: Remains of the Day: Flat broke

  Apple may be borrowing from OS X to pay iOS, hackers have gone phishing for Apple customers, and Tim Cook will be playing Southern California for one night only. Can you spare the remainders for Wednesday, May 1, 2013 a dime?

• News: MediaTek to improve low-cost Android smartphone performance

  Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572.

• 01 May 2013

• News: AT&T to offer oversized LG Optimus G Pro Android phone

  AT&T will make room in its lineup for another "phablet:" the LG Optimus G Pro.

• News: Think tablets are popular? Shipments explode in first quarter

  Tablet shipments exploded by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said.

• News: BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job

  A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes.

• News: AT&T to carry LG Optimus G Pro for $200 and contract May 10

  AT&T will exclusively sell the 5.5-in., quad-core LG Optimus G Pro smartphone starting May 10 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• News: Buyers Beware, Many BlackBerry 10 Apps Aren't Compatible with Q10 Smartphone

  When I reviewed the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, the Z10, in January, I had mostly good things to say but also expressed concern that big-name app publishers were not throwing their support behind the new platform by building BlackBerry 10 apps. Since then, a number of notable companies and organizations released BlackBerry 10 apps or ported over Android versions of their software, including Amazon (Kindle), Cisco and eBay, to name a few.

• News: AT&T's new trade-in program for smartphone buyers

  If you have old phones stashed in drawers around the house, AT&T will now pay you for them via a voucher good for obtaining a brand new handset from the company's offerings.

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