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• 19 April 2013

• News: IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

  IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.

• News: Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports

  While the company is committed to Internet Explorer, it is experimenting with an architecture to replace the browser called Embassies

• News: Tightened regulations threaten to clamp down on HFT and algo trading

  Increased regulation is threatening to impact on the use of high frequency and algorithmic trading, a panel of industry figures has claimed.

• News: Lenovo refreshes its Partner Rebate Program

  Lenovo A/NZ is adjusting its Partner Rebate Program to enabled contracted partners to receive a rebate for every first dollar spent.

• News: Tech London Advocates launches to support British start-ups

  A private sector-led advocacy group made up of around 150 technology business leaders and influencers has launched in London today to facilitate partnerships between tech start-ups and FTSE 250 businesses as well as large international companies and investors.

• News: Citizens use mobiles for a quarter of visits to council websites

  Nearly a quarter of visits to council websites are now from mobile devices, according to data from public sector IT managers association Socitm.

• News: TalkTalk fined £750,000 for outsourced silent and abandoned marketing calls

  Ofcom has fined TalkTalk £750,000 for making an excessive number of abandoned and silent calls to potential TalkTalk customers in 2011, through two of its outsourced call centres.

• News: Gartner: CIOs at big banks must step up to plate to get a grip on IT costs

  The increasing size and complexity of big banks is outstripping the ability of their CIOs to provide effective IT and operational support, says analyst Gartner.

• News: JD Sports begins £10 million project to replace legacy system with Oracle software

  Retailer JD Sports has committed to rolling out Oracle Retail software to replace its legacy IT systems over the next two years, in a project expected to cost at least £10 million.

• News: Some BigPond customers suffer an email outage due to faulty switch

  Telstra is “working flat out” to fix an email outage for BigPond customers caused by a problem with switching equipment at its Kent St exchange in Sydney.

• News: Senators shred coalition $90b broadband claims

  Minister for finance and deregulation, Senator Penny Wong, and minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, have slammed the assumptions underpinning the Coalition’s costing of Labor’s NBN.

• News: Why Ubisoft is bringing Flashback back in HD

  There was no shortage of platformers during the 16-bit generation, but very few were any good and even less hold up when played nowadays.

• News: Foxtel Go coming to Android

  Foxtel is expected to release its Foxtel Go app on Google's Android platform.

• News: Telstra, Optus to trade credit rating points for spectrum: Moody's

  Bidding in next week’s Digital Dividend auction is crucial for Telstra and SingTel Optus to stay competitive even though it is likely to negatively impact their credit ratings, according to a financial analyst at Moody’s.

• News: Vodafone lags behind Telstra and Optus on network performance: report

  Network performance has narrowed between Telstra and Vodafone Hutchison Australia this year, according to a report by J.D. Power and Associates.

• News: Samsung Galaxy S4 Australian launch: All you need to know

  Samsung will officially launch its hotly anticipated Galaxy S4 Android phone in Australia next week at an event in Sydney. Here's exactly what we know so far, what's happening and why it's a pretty big deal.

• News: Relive your childhood with this Lego Technic Spirograph machine

  Remember the Spirograph--that drawing toy from your youth that would let you draw spiral patterns? If you have a Spirograph kit and some Lego sets sitting around, you can build a machine that will draw Spirograph patterns for you.

• News: AT&T's MiFi Liberate: Impressive speed, battery life

  I have been using AT&T's new MiFi Liberate mobile hotspot, made by Novatel, and have found it reasonably easy to use and capable of some really fast feeds when connected to the AT&T LTE network.

• News: Budget iPhone leaked with price and release date

  A photo of Apple's alleged budget iPhone with a plastic case has been leaked online.

• News: Google+ and Blogger cozy up with new comment system

  Google isn't backing down on its social network, Google+. Instead the search giant is ramping up integration with other services. Now, if you write a blog or regularly comment on one using Blogger, you can comment using Google+.

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