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• 17 May 2013

• News: TalkTalk sees falling sales and profits for the year

  TalkTalk has posted both falling revenues and profits for the full year, although maintains it is on course for steady business growth.

• News: West Sussex council awards BT £12.5m rural broadband deal

  West Sussex County Council is the latest authority to award BT a rural fibre broadband deal, this one being worth £12.5 million to the supplier.

• News: Telefónica deploys Office 365 across 130,000 strong cloud

  Telefónica, the owner of the O2 mobile brand in the UK, is deploying the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite and Yammer social networking platform across its operating businesses worldwide, covering 130,000 staff in 24 countries.

• 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".

• 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.

• News: Progress at Foxconn factories, but working hours still exceed Chinese laws

  Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA). But the Taiwanese manufacturer is making overall steady progress in improving the working conditions at a select group of factories in China, it said.

• 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."

• News: In a sea of malware, viruses make a small comeback

  The computer virus seems to be making a subtle comeback.

• News: At Google I/O, Glass wearers say 'trust us'

  Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly. But on the ground at the company's I/O conference for developers, attendees are largely enthusiastic about the technology.

• News: Yahoo wins appeal of $2.7 billion suit in Mexican court

  An appeals court in Mexico has overturned an approximately US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a breach-of-contract suit concerning online directories.

• News: GPs open to sharing patient information, says survey

  A survey of general practices' attitudes to the use of information technology shows that most are open to sharing patient information provided that appropriate security and privacy measures are in place.

• News: Hong Kong is a haven for startups

  Hong Kong is seen as a haven for startups despite difficulties in getting credit, red tape and market domination by large corporations.

• News: Steam's virtual trading cards award prizes for your time well wasted

  Well, this is interesting. While the rest of the world was ogling over what's coming down the pipe from Google, Steam introduced collectible virtual trading cards that you can earn by playing games, and trade in for bragging rights and prizes.

• News: The name of the next Xbox may be Xbox Fusion

  There has been a lot of speculation about the name of the console that will succeed the Xbox 360. We know the code name is "Durango," but that's just an internal development name--the Xbox 360 carried the code name "Xenon." New domain name registrations and redirects now provide convincing evidence that Microsoft will market the new Xbox under the brand name "Xbox Fusion."

• News: Yahoo ups cool quotient with Twitter content

  Terrorist attacks. Presidential elections. Celebrity deaths. When big news breaks, we turn to Twitter for up-to-the-second updates. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer knows that, which is why the Web company struck a partnership with Twitter to display newsy tweets on the site's homepage.

• 16 May 2013

• News: Testing cell networks across America: Phone crime is real

  On a sweltering spring day in southwest Dallas I was standing outside my car, parked on a flat and near-empty stretch of urban road. The sun was quickly drying the cars coming out of the car wash across the street and I was playing with the OpenSignal app on my tester phones. Seemingly out of nowhere an old man was standing behind me. He looked like Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, but on a very bad day.

• News: Google Now's new Reminders are easy and powerful, but not quite perfect

  Larry Page and his merry Google crew bill Google Now, the scarily omniscient digital assistant baked into the Search apps for iOS and Android Jelly Bean, as a predictive search engine. Google Now notifies you of information you need, when you need it, without you ever needing to actively search for it. It's essentially your laissez-faire brain in the cloud.

• News: iTunes 11.0.3 enhances MiniPlayer, tweaks album options

  If you were hoping that the next update to iTunes might reverse some of the drastic changes Apple made in last year's version 11, don't hold your breath. A minor update released on Thursday, iTunes 11.0.3, makes some tweaks to the program's interface, as well as applying fixes for some security issues.

• News: Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales

  Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

• News: Lawmakers press Google on Glass privacy

  Members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote Thursday to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on how the futuristic device handles privacy issues.

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