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• 14 May 2013

• 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.

• News: Your Housing deploys new PSN WAN after merger for over 60 sites

  Social housing provider Your Housing Group has deployed a new wide area network covering 60 sites across the North following a merger.

• News: Centrica Energy deploys mobile Salesforce cloud

  Centrica Energy is deploying a mobile cloud-based Salesforce.com platform for its energy trading business.

• News: Court orders names to be withheld before release of Aaron Swartz records

  A U.S. federal court has modified a protective order to allow disclosure of the court records of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, but ruled that names and other personal identifying information of those involved in his arrest and prosecution should be redacted.

• News: McAfee rethinks consumer security service delivery

  McAfee, part of Intel, today announced a profound shift in how it distributes and prices its consumer security products by introducing LiveSafe, a service that combines anti-malware plus a score of other capabilities, such as anti-theft protection and a so-called "safety deposit box" in the cloud that can only be accessed by means of the user's face or voice biometric.

• News: Intel's McAfee brings biometric authentication to cloud storage

  Intel is introducing new ideas to secure the public cloud, offering a service in which online files can be accessed after users are verified by an authentication scheme including face and voice recognition.

• News: It's better to call ahead before sending malware, Symantec finds

  Hackers are finding it pays to call ahead before sending malware-laden email.

• News: SAP executive joins Jive Software

  Social business vendor, Jive Software, has appointed former SAP executive, Robert Yue, to the role of Asia-Pacific vice-president.

• News: Is Windows 8 really killing the PC market?

  Computers just aren't selling like they used to, and many critics, analysts, and longtime Windows users point the blame finger at one culprit in particular: Windows 8. Nobody's using Windows 8, they say. It's worse than New Coke, they say. PC shipments are cratering and it's all Windows 8's fault, they say.

• News: Google dumps data silos, announces a unified storage pool for Gmail and Drive

  Traditionally, Google's cornucopia of services were all solitary islands in Sergey Brin's vast online sea--completely solitary, and completely cut off from one another. All that changed when the company instituted its new (and controversial) privacy policy, turning those islands of info into an interconnected web of sharing virtually overnight.

• News: Why Yahoo's telecommuting ban is still bad for business

  Last week, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was interviewed at the Wired Business Conference on a range of topics, but the question on everyone's mind (including interviewer Steven Levy) was her impossibly unpopular edict against telecommuting.

• 13 May 2013

• News: Groupon to launch POS app for iPad? Here are 5 alternatives

  It looks like Groupon is adding yet another mobile payments solution to the already crowded space that includes its own Groupon Merchants app for iPhone and Android. as well as competitors such as Square and PayPal Here.

• News: T-Mobile raises price on iPhone 5 by $50

  First, T-Mobile didn't even offer the iPhone. Then, last month, it started offering the phone for $100--and it sold half-a-million phones in three weeks. But now, the carrier has boosted the upfront price on that iPhone 5 to $150.

• News: Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort

  Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site.

• News: Software asset management among top 2013 business priorities: Express Metrix

  Software Asset Management (SAM) is among the top business priorities for 2013, according to IT asset management vendor, Express Metrix.

• News: Big data is a big but young market

  A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.

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