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• 03 June 2013

• News: Mobile traffic hits 23,000,000,000GB in 2013

  By 2018 total mobile data traffic will likely eclipse 131,000 petabytes, shaving reached 23,000PB in 2013.

• News: Apple ordered to pay out the €5 million it's collected in copying levies in France

  Apple has to pay out €5 million (US$6.5 million) in home copying levies that it's collected but failed to deliver to the appropriate agency, the Paris High Court ruled on Friday.

• News: Software AG buys alfabet AG for IT portfolio management software

  Software AG has signed a deal to acquire IT portfolio management software vendor alfabet AG, and plans to combine the company's tools with its own ARIS process modeling products. Terms of the agreement, which was announced Monday, were not disclosed.

• News: Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company

  Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company after five years.

• News: Japanese Internet icon, free from prison, starts app design firm

  A Japanese entrepreneur who founded one of the country's largest web portals and was a national celebrity before being jailed for securities fraud is now free and has launched a firm to develop smartphone apps.

• News: Foxconn developing 5 Firefox OS devices, could include tablet

  Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla's Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system for its customers.

• News: Apple under the gun as US e-book trial starts

  Apple appears to face an uphill battle as it goes to trial Monday in New York on e-book price fixing charges brought by the U.S. government.

• 02 June 2013

• News: Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company

  Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company after five years.

• 01 June 2013

• News: Infosys' first CEO returns to lead company

  Infosys' co-founder and first CEO N. R. Narayana Murthy has returned to the company as executive chairman, amid concerns that the outsourcer's performance has not been as good as that of some of its Indian peers.

• Intel launches 'Haswell' Core chips

  Intel today announced the 4th-generation of its Core processor series. The quad core chips, previously code-named 'Haswell' offer better performance and significantly reduced power consumption, and will be available in PCs, laptops and tablets from June 4.

• News: UK retailers see cash decline as digital payments boom

  A transformation in the UK retail industry has meant that cash spending is falling, while popularity of new payment methods such as PayPal continue to gain ground, according to a study from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

• News: Amazon brings more jobs to London with new 1,600 staff building

  Amazon is opening a central London office this year that will house 1,600 new and existing employees.

• 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.

• 31 May 2013

• News: Cybercriminals go back to the USSR

  The former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics gained some Internet status in 1990 by being awarded its own top-level domain. A year later, the USSR was no more, but its domain lived on--to the delight of cybercriminals.

• News: Personal Audio defends its podcasting patent

  The company that owns a U.S. patent for podcasting is confident the patent will stand up to a challenge initiated this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks up despite dire PC, server outlook

  Despite dismal forecasts for PCs and servers, tech stocks have been doing well on optimism about cloud technology and mobile devices.

• News: Secretly shooting videos and photos in private settings criminalized in Sweden

  Sweden's parliament has voted in favor of a law that bans taking pictures and filming in a private environment without first getting permission from people in attendance. Critics say the law is too ambiguous.

• News: Cisco not looking to kill Microsoft/Skype deal, says Chambers

  Cisco doesn't want to kill Microsoft's marriage to Skype -- it just wants a dowry.

• News: Foxconn's Hon Hai sets up new research center in Sharp's backyard

  Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has set up a new research center devoted to display and touch technologies in Japan that could end up hiring staff away from Sharp.

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