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• 12 April 2013

• News: Infosys' profit drops in 'challenging' market

  Indian outsourcer Infosys saw its profit drop even as revenue grew in the first quarter, as margins were hit by staff salary increases, and investments and acquisitions by the company in new technology areas and markets.

• News: Google invites public to enhance its maps

  Google has made available its Google Map Maker to the wider public, allowing anyone to provide detailed local information to Google Maps in the UK.

• News: Sky cannot be specific about time frames to get Yahoo! email platform working

  Sky has told its customers that are still experiencing problems with their email, seven days after the company went live with Yahoo! mail after migrating away from Gmail, that it ‘cannot be specific’ about when all services will be back up and running.

• News: Cambridge NHS Trust awards HP £130 million contract to lead digital strategy

  Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Trust has awarded HP Enterprise Services a ten year contract worth over £130 million to lead the transformation of patient services, including supporting the delivery of a new ERP system.

• News: Intel sets up joint lab with China's Baidu for mobile apps

  Intel is hoping to get more Chinese developers to back its products by forming a new joint innovation lab with the nation's largest search engine Baidu.

• News: Microsoft amends security update after reports of system errors

  Microsoft has amended a security update containing a patch that reportedly caused errors in some third-party software.

• News: Solar flare blacks out some radios, but the end is not (necessarily) near

  Don't set your Google Inactive Account Manager just yet, but there are billions of tons of solar matter hurtling toward the Earth at more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) per second. NASA estimates the plasma will hit our atmosphere late Friday night, U.S. Eastern Daylight Time.

• News: Researchers find vulnerabilities in online poker applications

  A review of poker applications shows that many suffer security flaws, putting players at risk of attack, according to a Malta-based security company.

• News: As PC shipments drop, budget machines may offer relief

  The bad news keeps rolling in for Microsoft and PC manufacturers with market research firms Gartner and IDC Wednesday reporting record declines in global PC shipments for the first three months of 2013. Gartner said PC shipments saw an 11.2 percent decline compared to the prior year, while IDC said it was closer to 14 percent.

• News: Despite layoffs, Ambrosia says it's still in business

  Ambrosia Software--the maker of Snapz Pro X, Soundboard, and other popular utilities and games on Apple platforms--on Thursday fended off suggestions it was going out of business, even as employees of the company reported being laid off.

• 11 April 2013

• News: Designer shows off $17.8 million iPhone

  UK-based designer Stuart Hughes, renowned for his extravagant technology designs including an iPad 2 with t-rex bone shaved into it, has created an iPhone 5 worth $17.8 million.

• News: Twitter brings trending topics to 160 new locations

  Twitter, in an effort to make its site more useful to an ever-increasing number of people, is rolling out its Trends topic discovery feature in 160 new locations.

• News: Facebook Apps are significant threat log contributor

  Facebook Apps were the most significant threat log contributor, according to the latest edition of Application Usage and Threat Report by Palo Alto Networks.

• News: Google Death: Inactive account manager helps you plan digital last will and testament

  Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive Account Manager feature.

• News: White House signals it won't support CISPA in present form

  In what's quickly turning out to be a replay of events from last year, the White House today signaled that it would not support the recently reintroduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its present form.

• News: It is time to start doing something with all of that data: IBM

  The data is there, but according to IBM business analytics and optimisation leader, Graham Kittle, it is what we do with it that counts.

• News: Mind over matter: Researchers turn thoughts into passwords

  In the not-crazy-distant future, instead of using a password to navigate our digital lives, we may be able to think our way into our various online services and ever-growing array of digital whatnots.

• News: Panasonic pulls the plug on plasma R&D

  Panasonic is discontinuing any further research and development into plasma TV screens, although it will continue to sell TVs based on the technology into next year.

• News: LinkedIn to buy Pulse, maker of mobile news reader app

  LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site, continues to beef up its content publishing platform with its agreement to acquire Pulse, which makes a mobile news aggregation, reader and content distribution application.

• News: Use Google Inactive Account Manager to control your online presence after you die

  What happens to your Google account after you die? With a new tool called Inactive Account Manager, you can now decide for yourself.

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