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• 16 May 2013

• News: Getting started with Messages

  If you thought the only way you could use your Mac to communicate with other people was to send email messages, I'm about to brighten your day. For years the Mac OS has supported instant messaging, a form of texting similar to sending and receiving messages with a mobile phone.

• News: How to Use Google Wallet With Gmail to Transfer Money

  Integrating Google Wallet with Gmail makes sending and receiving funds as easy as sending an email. Here's what you need to know about the new feature.

• News: Could this be the business world's answer to Google Glass?

  While the big news in wearable computers is obviously centered on Google Glass, one company at Google's own developer conference in San Francisco this week is showcasing the beginnings of a different but potentially very important addition to the world of headware.

• News: SAP announces general availability of Business Suite on HANA

  SAP's co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has announced the general availability of the enterprise software giant's widely used Business Suite on its in-memory platform HANA, after four months of ramp up with 100 customers.

• News: Spiceworks' free management software gets integrated MDM

  Spiceworks has teamed up with Fiberlink to add mobile device management functionality to the next version of its free network and IT management software.

• News: Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace

  In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud

• News: Technology Strategy Board to invest £47m in digital economy this year

  The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has been allocated a record £440 million budget this year to support innovative businesses and drive growth across the UK.

• News: Comparethemarket.com improves customer experience with MongoDB

  Insurance comparison website Comparethemarket.com is using open source NoSQL database MongoDB to improve the customer experience of its home insurance offering.

• News: Hands on with Hangouts, Google's swipe at Facebook

  Let's cut to the chase: Google's new Hangouts app is an over-the-top mobile messaging service in the vein of Whatsapp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger. Google is not reinventing the wheel here. But unlike its competitors, Hangouts offers group video chats. Therein lies the appeal.

• News: Internode extends mobile handset range

  Internet service provider (ISP), Internode, has extended its range of mobile handsets offered with its NodeMobile call plans, by adding the new Samsung Galaxy S4 to its line-up.

• How-Tos: Change default search engine in IE

  Here's how to change the default search engine in Internet Explorer from Bing to Google.

• News: Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost

  Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.

• News: SAP attracts new customers with Suite on HANA – but not Oracle's

  SAP's announcement earlier this year that it is making its widely used Business Suite applications available on its in-memory database technology, HANA, has led to new customers signing up to the solution – but it is yet to draw Oracle's application customer base into the fold.

• News: Halfords pushes PC lifecycle management strategy

  Car maintenance and cycling retailer Halfords has deployed a new PC lifecycle management system to cover over 700 devices across two central offices.

• News: Sheffield Hallam University improves SSO and application delivery

  Sheffield Hallam University is saving up to £20,000 a year and eliminating "tens of hours of downtime every month" with an improved single sign-on system and application delivery controller.

• Test Centre: Google I/O keynote 2013 as it happened

  Video, key announcements and a liveblog - the best coverage of the Google I/O 2013 keynote as it happened.

• 15 May 2013

• How-Tos: How to install Linux on a vintage 68K Mac

  If you're like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680x0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete hardware than by installing an obsolete version of Linux on it? It's a difficult and time-consuming procedure with no practical purpose, of course, but when has that ever stopped us?

• News: Google to boost speed, cut data use on mobile devices

  Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS.

• News: Location-based and notification APIs highlight new Google Play services

  Google I/O is a developer-centric conference, so it's perhaps no surprise that one of the leading topics at Wednesday's keynote event was new application programming interfaces, or APIs.

• News: Google tells Microsoft to shut down its YouTube app for Windows Phone

  Google on Wednesday demanded that Microsoft yank its YouTube app for Windows Phone from the market and disable any downloaded copies of the app, according to Wired.com, which received a copy of Google's cease and desist letter.

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