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• 13 June 2013

• News: DiData unveils private Cloud productivity solutions

  ICT solutions and services provider, Dimension Data (DiData), has launched new Cloud services hosted in its managed private Cloud environment.

• News: Sony opens up SmartWatch to developers

  Sony's Open SmartWatch Project will make it possible for developers to create and install alternative software on the Sony SmartWatch.

• News: Gliffy goes HTML5, adds Visio support

  Gliffy, the web-based diagram creation and editing utility, has been rewritten in HTML5, allowing its developer to add a slew of new features, including support for Microsoft Visio as well as Google Drive cloud storage.

• News: SMS spam cruises for suckers

  Top texting scam in May tantalizes vacationers

• News: Mobile devices starting to affect online infrastructure performance: Borland

  Australia is gaining a track record in recent months for site failures during seasonal events, and some of the blame is being put on the plethora of mobile devices connecting to the Internet.

• News: Clearwire's board backs Dish offer, dealing blow to Sprint

  Clearwire's board of directors has unanimously recommended its shareholders reject the takeover bid by Sprint Nextel, which owns roughly half of Clearwire, and instead accept a buyout offer from Dish Network.

• 12 June 2013

• News: Telstra wins Global Telecoms Business award

  Telecommunications giant, Telstra, has been awarded with the Business Service Innovation award at the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award 2013 for its Telstra T-MDM solution.

• News: FAQ: everything you need to know about OS X Mavericks

  Apple's newest Mac OS, Mavericks, is still several months away. But if you're itching for information, we've put together everything we currently know about the operating system to give you an idea of what you have to look forward to in the fall.

• News: On site at a Sprint cell: Gear shrinks while coverage grows

  On the roof of a medical building in San Francisco, Sprint Nextel has a cell site that's far above the cramped canyons of the city's streets, but despite the wide-open views, space is limited.

• News: Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup

  Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.

• News: Bitcoin isn't PRISM-proof

  In the aftermath of the revelation of PRISM, the NSA spying program that collects user data from nine major U.S. tech companies, many have highlighted alternate options from organizations that are not known to be cooperating with government surveillance efforts.

• News: HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems

  On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems.

• News: SAP wins key ruling in long-running patent battle with Versata

  SAP has received a ruling that sets a legal landmark in patent law and could also prove favorable to its defense in a long-running intellectual-property dispute with Versata.

• News: Say hello to Jongo, the newest multiroom music system

  Sonos has a colorful new competitor on its hands in the form of Pure's Jongo multiroom music system. Unveiled at CES in January, the company announced Wednesday that it was now shipping several components of the system in the U.S. with an additional product coming later this year.

• How-Tos: Can't wait for Mavericks' file tagging? Use smart folders

  Reader Andrew Ainsbury can't seem to wait for the future. He writes:

• News: 5-year-old Macs not too old for OS X Mavericks

  The new OS X Mavericks will run on the same set of Mac desktops and notebooks as OS X Mountain Lion, but iOS 7 will drop support for iPhone 3GS, the 2009 smartphone supported by the current iOS 6.

• News: Hands-free tech still poses high risk for drivers

  A study from AAA finds that even hands-free technology, like Apple's iOS in-car displays, still poses a relatively high level of driver distraction.

• Feature: What’s the best free word processor?

  Microsoft Word isn’t the only option when it comes to creating documents. There are plenty of competent free word processors, including WordPad, Jarte, WordGraph and even Google Docs. Read on to find out which is best for you.

• News: Why iOS 7 will kill some apps (and make others stronger)

  There's a lot to be excited about after Monday's announcement of iOS 7. Flashy new design! Panels! Automatic app updates! Voice calls over FaceTime! Such system-wide changes aside, some of the biggest changes to iOS are found in Apple's own mobile apps. Several of the stock Apple apps for iOS are being revamped, gaining new features and deeper integration with the Apple ecosystem.

• News: 12 things you may not have known about OS X Mavericks

  Though both operating systems are set to arrive this fall, we know a lot more about iOS 7 than we do about its Mac sibling, OS X Mavericks. But with a little digging through the keynote slides and through Apple's OS X preview website, we were able to find 12 things you may not have heard or noticed about the company's next operating system.

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