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• 11 April 2013

• News: Least reliable smartphones revealed, Galaxy S3 most fault prone

  The smartphones insurance companies hate: Samsung leads least-reliable pack

• News: Bitcoin volatility caused by surge in demand, slow software

  Bitcoin's roller-coaster price swings on Wednesday were caused by an influx of new buyers and software that couldn't keep up, according to the largest exchange, Mt. Gox.

• News: Bitcoin volatility caused by surge in demand, slow software

  Bitcoin's roller-coaster price swings on Wednesday were caused by an influx of new buyers and software that couldn't keep up, according to the largest exchange, Mt. Gox.

• News: Want Microsoft Office on iOS or Android? You may wait until 2014

  Microsoft is making a big mistake. Assuming the leaked Office 'Gemini' roadmap is both legitimate and accurate, it appears that neither Outlook RT nor Office for iOS and Android will arrive any time soon. By the time they do, it's possible nobody will care.

• 10 April 2013

• News: Oracle wants to be easier to work with, Mark Hurd says

  Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different product areas.

• News: Use of unified communications grows: DiData and Ovum

  About 78 per cent of businesses have a strategic plan and budget to implement some components of UC and collaboration (UCC) components, while 42 per cent of decision makers have a budget to proceed with investment in most aspects of UCC, according to a study conducted by Dimension Data.

• News: Microsoft veteran talks good and bad of new SharePoint

  The 2013 upgrade of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration environment has significant enhancements over the previous -- 2010 - version, particularly in enhanced search and working in the cloud, but it still has its limitations, ex-Microsoft specialist Ian Morrish warns.

• News: STORserver enters cloud business

  STORserver, a maker of backup appliances, announced private and public cloud backup services.

• News: EU watchdog: Data collection can't fly under 'user experience' flag

  “Improving users' experience” is not justification for using consumer information in Big Data projects according to Europe's top data protection officials.

• News: Hackers turn a Canon EOS camera into a remote surveillance tool

  The high-end Canon EOS-1D X camera can be hacked for use as a remote surveillance tool, with images remotely downloaded, erased and uploaded, a researcher said during the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday.

• News: Supply chain the new tempting attraction for hackers

  Intruders finding 'weakest link' the best route into the information treasures of large companies

• News: Spam botnet-for-hire used to deliver Android malware

  Development marks a new post-startup phase in the Android malware business, on par with that of malicious tech targeting Windows

• News: Macquarie Telecom to host Intersect supercomputer

  Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ) has signed a deal to host Intersect’s high performance computing (HPC) system called Orange in its Intellicentre 2 (IC2) data centre in Sydney.

• News: Gotley to lead Check Point mid-market sales

  Internet security software vendor, Check Point Software Technologies, has appointed Michaeli Gotley as mid-market sales manager for Australia to lead a team of eight in growing the company’s presence in that market segment.

• News: Intel aims for easy server upgrades

  To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers.

• 09 April 2013

• News: Oracle's Mark Hurd, users weigh in on third-party software maintenance

  Oracle co-President Mark Hurd weighed in on the contentious topic of third-party software maintenance at the Collaborate user group conference in Denver this week.

• News: Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down Big Data Appliance

  Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between itself and SAP.

• News: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid now spans data centers

  Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers, and also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime.

• News: Novell CEO plots company's return

  Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence.

• Opinion: Wrangling email: How I keep my inbox under control

  Though specialists have devised myriad systems that purport to achieve Inbox Zero. I'm not that ambitious. I just want a system that keeps the number of unread messages in my inbox as small as possible, doesn't treat my inbox as a to-do list, and doesn't require me to spend hours sorting and archiving my mail.

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