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• 01 June 2013

• News: News Ltd prepares for digital future with BI

  Australian media giant News Ltd is using business intelligence (BI) and digital subscriptions to build up a better profile of its readers.

• News: Echo Entertainment Group gambles on big data

  Helping customers to find their favourite gaming machine and knowing when VIP players are at the casino without compromising privacy or "being creepy" is the goal for Echo Entertainment Group.

• News: Oracle's Java security improvements don't quite satisfy

  Changes welcomed, but one expert said he'd like to see sandbox technology in Java like that used in Adobe Reader and Google Chrome

• 31 May 2013

• News: Google zero-day disclosure change slammed, praised

  Google admits the seven-day timeline is too short for some vendors to patch, but hopes it will push companies to advise customers sooner

• Opinion: Gmail tip: Don't forget to check your spam filter

  Before I incur the wrath of non-Gmail users, let me just note that this tip also applies to Hotmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, and so on. But because I'm a Gmail user myself, and that's where my story begins, that's where I'm putting my focus.

• News: Info-sharing between the feds and private sector needs work, says NSS

  Despite some deficiencies, the sharing fundamentals are sound, though

• News: 14-year-old worker found dead at possible Asus supplier in China

  A 14-year-old worker has been found dead after working at an electronics factory in China that may make products for Asus, another potential case of underage labor abuse in the country.

• News: Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox requires account verification after Liberty Reserve shutdown

  Mt. Gox is requiring all users to verify their accounts in order to make non-bitcoin currency deposits and withdrawals, less than a week after U.S. authorities said they shut down online payment processor Liberty Reserve for alleged money laundering.

• News: US allows export of communication devices, software and services to Iran

  The U.S. government has lifted sanctions on the export of a variety of consumer communications devices, software and services including mobile phones to Iran ahead of elections in that country.

• 30 May 2013

• News: Data brings banks closer to customers

  Banks are seeking closer relationships with customers through greater use of customer data and new technologies, according to banking and telecom officials at the CeBIT Financial Tech conference in Sydney.

• News: Best plan to save Earth from a killer asteroid? Nukes!

  To protect the Earth from a devastating collision with a large asteroid, one scientist says the best solution would be to nuke it.

• News: Waze bakes in one-tap Facebook Event integration

  Facebook's talks to acquire Waze have reportedly fallen apart, but that hasn't stopped the Israel-founded start-up from baking more Facebook features into its apps for Android and iOS.

• How-Tos: Restore a corrupted Excel file

  Our Helproom Editor helps a reader use Restore Previous Versions and then ShadowExplorer to rescue a corrupted Excel file.

• News: Salesforce.com preps intranet app

  Salesforce.com plans to ship in the second half of the year a hosted application for companies to create intranets that are accessible via mobile devices and that offer enterprise social networking (ESN) capabilities to employees.

• News: Zoho launches Pulse business social-network app

  Zoho is getting into the business social-networking game with a new product called Pulse, which also ties back to many of its other applications.

• News: Microsoft eyes enterprise market with new services center in China

  Microsoft is expanding its enterprise services in China with a new Global Service Delivery Center in the country, the second of its kind in the world, the company said Wednesday.

• News: Online money laundering bust casts light on Bitcoin

  Already, an illegal drug site accepts Bitcoins, but experts say it is unlikely to fill the void for cyberiminals left by Liberty Reserve

• News: Microsoft plugs security systems into its worldwide cloud

  Connection to Azure improves ability to push out near-real-time threat information welcome but called 'long overdue'

• News: Edinburgh Airport installs biometric system to track passenger movements

  Edinburgh Airport has become the latest site to deploy Human Recognition Systems' MFlow Journey queue measurement system to track and react to the movement of passengers through check-in, security and passport control.

• How-Tos: 6 Practical Predictive Analytics Tools

  Most analytics tools put data in an historical context. That's all well and good, but if what if you want to use past data to gauge future performance? That narrows your analytics options. These six tools will help you make practical use of your data in order to make business decisions.

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