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• 01 May 2013

• News: Microsoft's browser auto-update pays off as IE10 share doubles

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today.

• News: Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies

  Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copyright levies for offering access to copyright protected materials online.

• News: Businesses hit by Optus outage in Sydney

  Optus business customers experienced an outage Tuesday morning following hardware issues at the telco's exchange in Ultimo, Sydney.

• News: Path users complain about mass texts; Path says it's user error

  Social network Path appeals to people who want more privacy, but now users are complaining that the app is spamming their address book contacts with unsolicited texts that invite them to join the network.

• News: Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition

  Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majority stake in the company, according to reports.

• News: Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

  Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said.

• 30 April 2013

• News: Aussie consumer law starts to bite ISPs

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken ISP ByteCard Pty. Limited (also known as Netspeed Internet Communications) to court in the first ICT-sector test of consumer legislation which has close parallels in a New Zealand Bill now before Parliament.

• News: Bang With Friends raises $1 million to help people 'bang' their Facebook friends

  Sometimes I wonder if there may be too much venture capitalist money out there. Business Insider is reporting that the popular three-month-old Web app Bang With Friends (BWF) has raised $1 million in seed money to further spread its unique brand of carefree social media-fueled debauchery.

• News: Vine update adds front camera, Twitter-style mentions

  Vine, the app from Twitter that lets iPhone owners create and share six-second videos, scored a few updates on Tuesday. It's easier now to make videos that star you, and Twitter-style mentions are now supported, too.

• News: CERN celebrates the web and how it changed the world

  Twenty years ago today, CERN released World Wide Web technology -- all royalty free.

• News: Google may have smart eyeglasses but Budweiser has smart beer glasses

  Budweiser is trying to make it easier to make friends -- Facebook friends -- when you're drinking beer.

• News: Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone

  Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the U.S. can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets.

• News: Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative

  Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency.

• News: Sued Opera designer fingers Mozilla's 'Search Tabs' as root of $3.4M claim

  The former Opera Software designer accused of leaking trade secrets to Mozilla denied the charges yesterday, but confirmed that the lawsuit takes aim at a search revamp he worked on while a consultant for the maker of Firefox.

• News: Yahoo beefs up its video selection with partnerships and a slew of original series

  Content is king, they say, and lately, Yahoo appears laser-focused on bringing top-notch video content to its website.

• News: South Africa is first to enact cyberbullying law in Southern Africa

  South Africa, Africa's second largest telecom market after Nigeria, has become the first Southern African country to enact a law that clamps down on cyberbullying, which is rampant in the region.

• News: All ministerial departments now migrated to GOV.UK

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has completed the migration of all 24 ministerial departments onto the government’s recently launched central domain website, GOV.UK.

• News: Facebook fights user fatigue, while Twitter is fastest growing: report

  Facebook has seen some growth in its active users, but Twitter has become the fastest growing social platform in the world, according to Global Web Index.

• News: Facebook fights user fatigue, while Twitter is fastest growing: report

  Facebook has seen some growth in its active users, but Twitter has become the fastest growing social platform in the world, according to Global Web Index.

• News: Microsoft previews Skype for Outlook.com

  Microsoft is rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com, allowing users to make calls and send instant messages from within the webmail service using a browser plugin.

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