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- 15 June 2013
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News: The Macalope Weekly: It's the little things
That's pretty much all pundits have left to complain about. But complain about them they will! Our first pundit this week decries Apple's wanton destruction of a vital app category. Then we'll get caught up on this week's ways in which Apple is doomed. Finally, we'll learn how emperor iOS 7 has no clothes!
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News: Google's audacious Project Loon wants to spread the Net with high-flying balloons
You know what's awesome? The Internet. What's not so great: The utter pain it is to find a fast, reliable Internet connection in so many parts of the world. With its latest moonshot, Google[x] is fighting that headache with creativity, attempting to make an awesome thing, well, even more awesome by spreading the Internet to the furthest reaches of the earth.
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News: Facebook, Microsoft disclose little on national security requests
Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday.
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News: Nestlé appoints new group CTO
Nestlé has appointed a new group CTO, to replace Werner Bauer who is retiring after 23 years at the company.
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News: Cray integrates Hadoop Big Data analytics with supercomputers
Cray is bringing integrated open source Hadoop Big Data analytics software to its supercomputing platforms.
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News: Number of online shoppers grows in Hong Kong
The number of online shoppers has grown in Hong Kong, according to a newly released GfK Retail to e-tail survey.
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News: Brocade to deliver training classes in Mandarin
Networking solutions provider Brocade is set to scale up its certification programmes in China and deliver training classes in Mandarin.
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News: China to be the largest WAF market
China is expected to surpass South Korea and become the largest Web application firewall (WAF) market, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.
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News: 7 essentials for defending against DDoS attacks
Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything.
- 14 June 2013
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News: Amazon quietly launches complete 3D printing store
Amazon is helping to push 3D printing into the mainstream with a new section on its site dedicated to the miniature manufacturing plants. The online shopping giant joins Staples, which in early May became the first major U.S. retailer to sell a 3D printer.
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News: How Sony can still screw up the PlayStation 4
Sony's PlayStation 4 may be the fan favorite right now, as far as next-generation consoles go.
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News: Pink Floyd is coming to Spotify, but only if 1 million people 'Wish' for it
Pink Floyd's legendary tunes aren't exactly strangers to streaming music--Roger Waters' masterful lyrics have been gracing the likes of Pandora, Slacker, and Rdio for years now. But the band's catalog has been glaringly absent from Spotify, the 800 lb. gorilla in the streaming song arena. No more. At long last, the Pink Floyd brick is being added to Spotify's massive musical wall--but only if users wish for it.
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News: Samsung's next big thing - born in the USA?
Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley?
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News: Internet Society urges transparency in intellectual property discussions
Greater transparency, as well as respect for the Internet's open architecture and multi-stakeholder participation, are needed to help guide discussions around intellectual property policy on the Internet, according to the Internet Society.
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News: Microsoft sticks it to the iPad with Windows-first Office strategy
Microsoft's surprise launch of Office Mobile for the iPhone today shows that the software giant continues to favor Windows' future over Office's fortune, analysts said today.
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News: Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week
Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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News: The end of Symbian: Nokia ships last handset with the mobile OS
Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot?
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News: Digital surveillance programs in other countries trigger controversy
Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting.
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News: As once-mighty Symbian enters hospice, will it be missed?
Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms.
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News: Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week
Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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