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- 17 May 2013
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News: ODI urges government to be 'bold' on open data for business
The Open Data Institute (ODI) has welcomed the findings of Stephan Shakespeare in his Independent Review of Public Sector Information, and has called on the government to drive them forward, by "turning recommendations into real progress".
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News: SAP CEO "not concerned" with rise of third party maintenance and support players
SAP's co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has said that he's "not concerned" about the rise of third party maintenance and support providers, such as Rimini Street and Spinnaker, as most of the software giant's install base wants access to innovation.
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News: Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox
Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies."
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Opinion: New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8
We've seen several Linux tablets emerge over the past year or so, but examples with triple-boot capabilities are much less common.
- 16 May 2013
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News: Tibco offers free R to the enterprise
Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.
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News: If you can't find a seat at Starbucks, blame IT
Unless you're a Yahoo employee, theres a very good chance you are working from home or at a coffee shop at least part of the week, according to Forrester Research.
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News: Microsoft responds to Larry Page remarks, but Oracle is quiet
Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the executive.
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News: Jive Software adds integration tool for its enterprise social platform
Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems.
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News: Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass
While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking companies including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr now want a piece of the action, by offering social applications on the device.
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News: App Store surpasses 50 billion downloads
Brandon Ashmore, who calls Mentor, Ohio, home, is having a very good day. Apple on Thursday announced that Ashmore download the 50 billionth app from the App Store.
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News: Google eases Android app development with a new IDE
Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps.
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News: SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.
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Opinion: Three simple ways to get a speedy PC
There are three ways to get a faster PC or laptop: buy a new one, upgrade the hardware, or upgrade the software. We can show you how to do them all.
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News: SAP CEO shuns Forrester's criticisms that HANA cloud is a half-baked business model'
SAP's co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has responded to analyst Forrester's criticisms following the launch of HANA enterprise cloud, claiming that it is a logical business model because customers want to control their core systems.
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How-Tos: Change Safari's search engine
If you're using Apple's Safari web browser on a Mac, you may prefer to use a more familiar search engine than its default Bing. In just a couple of clicks you can change the default search engine to Google or Yahoo, or you can do so on the fly for individual searches. Here's how.
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Opinion: Five Dictionary tricks I can't live without
You've probably ditched your paper dictionary, but do you know how to use OS X's built-in one? This week's video shows you how.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New Xbox One release date, specs, features and price in UK
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Best cases and covers for the new iPad: protect your tablet in style
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What’s the best mobile OS: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 or BlackBerry 10?
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Microsoft Windows 8 review
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Surface Pro review - Microsoft tablet offers true power computing on the move
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 4 smartphone comparison review: what's the best Android?
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