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• 15 April 2013

• News: Find My Mac both useful and frustrating for law enforcement

  Find My Mac can be used to show the location of a stolen Mac, but the service often does not provide enough evidence to obtain a search warrant and get the stolen device back to its rightful owner, the Dutch police said on Monday.

• News: Rackspace announces plans to create global cloud network for service providers

  Rackspace has announced plans to open its cloud services up to third party service providers and telcos, aiming to create a global network of data centres powered by its OpenStack systems.

• News: Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel

  Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank.

• News: AppliedMicro, Altera team to speed up ARM servers

  Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera.

• News: 4 Mobile Security Predictions to Help CIOs Plan for the Future

  Few things can keep CIOs up at night these days like mobility, particularly bring your own device (BYOD). After all, mobile, consumerization of IT and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) are turning enterprise security models on their heads. Privacy implications--let alone the potential for data loss and data leakage--are enough to make a CIO break out in a cold sweat.

• News: Stupid user tricks 7: True tales of extreme brain fail

  Ah, users -- if it weren't for them, technology would work so well.

• News: China's Alibaba bolsters mobile OS after clash with Google

  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is seeking to revive its mobile operating system, with a new name, new partners and more money, after Google threatened to block the companies from bringing aboard handset vendors for the OS.

• News: The best tower defense games on Android

  Tower defense games are what many in the industry would call an acquired taste. At the most basic level, they operate on the same concept: The gamer has a central point to defend, a bunch of turrets to construct, and waves upon waves of enemies to defeat. Though often criticized as repetitive and overtly brutal, fans of the genre know that tower defense games are an addictive, soul-sucking diversion. Whether you're a stoic fan or you're just curious, read on through our round-up of some of the most interesting tower defense games in the Google Play store today.

• News: Cisco extends Microsoft support in data center portfolio

  Cisco last week extended its data center product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective data center and cloud architectures for joint customers.

• News: What's next for Virtual Instruments

  Virtual Instruments, whose software and hardware is used to manage data center performance, plans to release the next edition of its VirtualWisdom software in the fourth quarter.

• News: Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN

  Virtual Instruments, the nearly 5-year-old infrastructure performance management software and hardware maker, is one of those companies that might never become a household name no matter how successful it becomes. In fact, many at first mistake the company for being in the music business.

• News: Shopping the Chrome Web Store: name brands, knock-offs and no-shows

  When I set out to shop the Chrome Web Store, I wasn't just browsing for fun. The The Chromebook Pixel's many charms had lured me toward Google's Web-centric Chrome OS, but I needed to know whether it offered an ecosystem I could live with long-term--especially since I'd be leaving behind all the Windows applications I've used for years. The Chromebook's popularity has only increased over the past year, so I couldn't be the only Windows user with a wandering eye.

• News: OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

  HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly

• News: Workshare on the hunt for collaboration focused resellers

  Following the recent release of its collaboration and comparison app for iOS and Android, Workshare has announced a partner recruitment drive for its online platform.

• News: EXCLUSIVE: Computerlinks extends distie deal with Exinda

  Network performance vendor, Exinda, has signed a distribution deal with Computerlinks Australia, extending on its partnership in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.

• News: Telstra switches on mobile coverage in Sydney rail tunnels

  Telstra commuters travelling through the City Circle tunnels in Sydney will now have new mobile network coverage, allowing them to stay connected as they ride the rails through the city.

• News: SIM-only MVNO Vaya to sell Galaxy S III 4G

  Australian low-cost mobile virtual network operator Vaya is currently finalising a deal which will see the company sell the Samsung Galaxy S III 4G Android smartphone on its network.

• News: Cloud Services division pays off for Avnet

  Eight months after hatching a new services division, Avnet Cloud Services, the company is already seeing strong uptake by resellers of its hosted private Cloud solutions.

• News: A10 Networks and DNA enter partnership to expand further in ANZ

  Application networking provider, A10 Networks, has entered a distribution partnership with Digital Networks Australia, to help it further reach the A/NZ channel.

• News: Australian Rugby Union CFO tackles fans with CRM deployment

  Getting fans to buy tickets for rugby union tours, such as the upcoming British Lions tour, has been made easier for the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) thanks to its customer relationship management (CRM) system.

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