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• 14 May 2013

• News: Ipsos MORI denies selling EE customers' personal data to third parties

  Analytics firm Ipsos MORI has refuted the suggestion that it is selling EE customers' personal data its clients, claiming that all information is anonymised and aggregrated, and cannot be connected to individual customers.

• News: Strathclyde University makes planes, nuclear reactors and spacecraft bug free

  Calamitous computer glitches, such as those that led to the loss of NASA's £82 million Mars Climate Orbiter Spacecraft, could be prevented thanks to research by University of Strathclyde academics, says the university.

• News: MYOB acquires BankLink for $NZ 136 million

  MYOB Holdings subsidiary, MYOB Finance NZ Limited, has inked an agreement to purchase Media Transfer Services (MTS) company, BankLink.

• News: UK government selects Arqiva for £150m Mobile Infrastructure Project

  The government's plans to significantly improve mobile coverage across the UK moved a step closer today, with the news that communication infrastructure provider Arqiva has been appointed to deliver the £150 million Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP).

• News: DIY 'Karma Controller' makes it easier than ever to waste your time on Reddit

  If you've never been to Reddit, you probably shouldn't start now. This modern-day bulletin board system, filled to the brim with advice animals and exhibitionists, will suck hours out of your life. Here, people 'upvote' good threads, consign bad ones to 'downvote' hell and engage in comment-wars. It's a hard life here in Reddit, which is why you should totally get a Karma Controller and simplify everything even further.

• News: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories streaming on iTunes

  For a limited time, the iTunes Store is end-to-end streaming Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, the group's first new studio release since 2005. You can pre-order the album now for $12 and download it on its May 21st release date. Although you can't choose individual tracks to play when previewing the album, you can start the stream playing and then use iTunes' scrub controller to move through the album.

• News: Thomas Duryea secures contract with MCRI

  IT infrastructure solutions provider, Thomas Duryea, has secured a contract with Australian child health research institute, Murdoch Childrens' Research Institute (MCRI), to design and deploy a new storage infrastructure platform.

• News: Australian education cycle "problematic" for the IT industry: AIIA

  IT industry veterans may bemoan the fact that companies do not train their staff as rigorously as they did one or two decades ago, but the AIIA said the issue is more about tertiary education.

• News: Ingram Micro sees surge in uptake of Cloud services offerings

  Resellers are becoming more interested and involved in Cloud services, according to leading distributor, Ingram Micro which has seen a surge in the uptake of its Cloud services products.

• News: Five new features coming in Firefox 21 tomorrow

  It's been about six weeks since the release of Firefox 20, so assuming Mozilla stays on its usual schedule, Firefox 21 will make its debut on Tuesday.

• News: Huawei signs memorandum of understanding for OSS interoperability initiative

  ICT technology vendor, Huawei, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative (OSSii) alongside other major OSS vendors, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks.

• News: Nokia teases new Lumia smartphone with video trailer

  Nokia has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming Lumia smartphone, which is expected to be the Lumia 925.

• News: Ingram Micro to distribute Actifio Copy Data Storage (CDS) appliances

  Ingram Micro has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for enterprise storage management specialist, Actifio.

• News: Google has to delete offensive autocomplete results, German federal court rules

  Google has to remove search suggestions from autocomplete in Germany if the results are offensive, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled Tuesday.

• News: China still safe for IT outsourcing, despite US security concerns, says vendor

  China's reputation for security may have been marred by recent U.S. accusations of state-sponsored hacking but the nation is still a safe place as a tech subcontractor for foreign businesses, according to one of China's largest IT outsourcing vendors.

• News: Nokia's Lumia 925 will use aluminium frame as antenna, go on sale in June

  Nokia's new Lumia 925 phone has an aluminium frame that functions as an antenna, and is lighter and thinner than the Lumia 920, but otherwise offers similar performance to its predecessor.

• News: Ailing Sharp sacks chief, vows turnaround on robots, LCDs

  Japan's Sharp booked another huge loss on Tuesday, and unveiled its latest turnaround plan, which includes relying on partnerships with Samsung Electronics and Foxconn Technology Group for business, sacking top management, and expanding into new fields such as robotics.

• News: After tweeting from space station, astronauts return home

  A new crew is taking over the International Space Station after two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut successfully returned to Earth Monday night.

• News: Google Play Games leaked

  Google I/O developer conference is just around the corner but Google Play Games has already been leaked.

• News: Technology funding challenge launched for fashion industry

  A technology funding challenge has been launched for the fashion industry.

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