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• 07 June 2011

• Video: E3: Sony says sorry for PlayStation Network outage

  At the E3 show in Los Angeles this week, Sony President & CEO Jack Tretton offered consumers and partners an apology for the PlayStation Network outage and then shifted focus to more positive days ahead.

• News: Want to get 'old' CEOs into social media? Try success stories

  What do IT and marketing people do if their CEO and other senior managers are stultifying the use of social media? Show them case studies and examples of how other C-level executives are using it to their advantage, say leading social media professionals from Telstra and Facebook.

• 06 June 2011

• News: Tablets and economy hit PC and netbook sales

  Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to grow by just 4.2 percent in 2011, down from a February forecast of 7.1 percent.

• Video: Hillary Clinton responds to claims of China email theft

  Google claims 'China-originated campaign' stole email from US officials; secretary of state responds

• News: Internet architect Vint Cerf to young people: science and tech careers can be rewarding

  Vint Cerf is one of the most decorated people in the technology field, and with good reason: He co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and was one of the Internet’s original architects. Here are Cerf’s thoughts on such industry recognitions and related topics.

• 04 June 2011

• News: Syria Internet service said to be restored

  The Internet in Syria was back on Saturday, a day after it was reported that two-thirds of Syrian networks had been cut off from the rest of the world in the wake of civil unrest in the country.

• 03 June 2011

• News: Syria drops off the Internet amid turmoil

  Syria appears to be thelatest Middle eastern government to shut down access to the internet due to civil unrest.

• News: Car crashes into Apple Store in robbery attempt

  Details of a bizarre and ultimately unsuccessful attempted robbery on an Apple Store in North Carolina have emerged.

• News: Airtel signs network expansion pact with Huawei

  Taking a page from its India strategy, Telecom giant Bharti Airtel has signed a US$150 million agreement with Chinese technology company Huawei to expand its second and third generation (2G and 3G) network infrastructure in Africa.

• News: Battle over EU flight passenger data rages on

  Digital rights organizations have hit out at new agreements to transfer information about flight passengers in Europe to the United States and Australia.

• News: YouTube sets up Creative Commons library

  YouTube has set up a library of videos carrying the Creative Commons license, that creators can easily reuse and incorporate into their work, the Google video sharing service said on Thursday in its blog.

• 02 June 2011

• News: African regulators aim at operators for poor service

  As stiff competition forces telecom operators in Africa to lower call rates, a decline in quality of service has caused regulators to threaten penalties.

• News: Apple reportedly cracking down on iPad, iPhone giveaways

  Apple reportedly has begun more strictly enforcing its rules against third-parties giving away iPads and iPhones to drum up business, according to a Fortune story.

• News: Apple data centre spotted on Google Maps

  New ariel images of Maiden, North Carolina, have appeared on Google Maps and show the massive new data centre Apple is building there.

• News: Apple cracking down on iPhone and iPad 'giveaways'

  Promotions using iPad and iPhones as bait are coming under closer scrutiny from Apple, according to reports.

• Video: COMPUTEX: Microsoft unveils touch-oriented Windows 8

  Microsoft showed the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei on Thursday, unveiling a completely new tile-based interface that it hopes will be better suited for the emerging world of tablet PCs.

• News: Acer cuts staff in Europe, takes $150 million charge

  Acer is laying off 300 employees in Europe and taking a charge of US$150 million, as the company tries to streamline operations following the departure of CEO Gianfranco Lanci in March after a conflict with the company's management.

• 01 June 2011

• News: Polycom to buy HP's videoconferencing assets

  Polycom has agreed to acquire the assets of Hewlett-Packard's Visual Collaboration business, including its Halo videoconferencing products and managed services, as part of a broad partnership for unified communications.

• News: Oracle submits OpenOffice.org codebase to Apache

  Oracle is submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, where the productivity suite will live on in the group's incubator program for open-source software initiatives, Oracle announced Wednesday.

• News: IT workers' mobility hindered by incomparable qualifications

  CIOs would hire more foreign IT workers if they could more easily compare qualifications

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