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• 15 May 2013

• News: Google's vision for search highlights knowledge graph, speech

  Google's Senior Vice President Amit Singhal used his time at the 2013 I/O podium to announce "the end of search as we know it." While some of the search enhancements he announced won't actually mark the end of search, they do point to cool new ways to interact with information.

• News: Survey: Hong Kong CFOs skeptical about LinkedIn profiles

  Hong Kong employers doubts the reliability of a job applicants' LinkedIn profiles, said Robert Half that released the results of a new survey on Monday.

• News: A soft-spoken Larry Page makes surprise appearance at Google I/O

  Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the Google I/O conference, where he overcame problems with his throat to take questions from developers in the audience for almost an hour.

• News: Google CEO on innovation: 'We're at 1% of what's possible'

  Google CEO Larry Page took the stage today to wrap up a nearly four-hour long keynote that kicked off the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.

• News: Pretend you're on the radio with Vobok, the Vine-ish social network for broadcasters

  There's an art to producing the perfect six-second Vine or 140-character tweet. The constraints force you to be a creative editor. Now Vobok, a new free iOS and Android app, poses the same challenge for sound bites--you have 30 seconds of recording time, so make them count.

• News: Testing firm: Internet Explorer tops browsers for malware protection

  Mirror, mirror on the wall, what browser blocks malware best of all? The answer to that question is Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, at least according to the latest test results released by NSS Labs.

• News: Last-minute Google I/O rumor roundup: Maps, Spotify killers, and the Google Galaxy S4

  The Google I/O keynote for 2013 is just a few hours away, and this year's kickoff to the company's developer conference is shaping up to be one for the record books.

• News: Google brings voice-enabled search to the desktop

  Just by saying "Okay Google," people will soon be able to search using voice commands on their Chrome-powered desktop and laptop computers, Google said Wednesday.

• News: Google improves interface, photos in Google+ social network

  Google is adding 41 new features to its Google+ social network on Wednesday, including a richer interface that works better on mobile devices and some major enhancements to photo sharing.

• News: Syrian Internet service comes back online

  Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts.

• News: SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

  Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.

• News: Google launches subscription music service

  Google is rolling out a subscription music service that will bring users unlimited access to millions of songs in return for a monthly fee.

• News: Google launches multiplayer Android gaming API

  Google has introduced new APIs to help developers build better games for its Android OS.

• News: Google says it has 900 million Android activations

  Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco.

• News: SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite

  SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, on Wednesday at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• News: Syria disappears from the Internet again

  Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys.

• News: Pinterest is making it too easy to spend all your time on Pinterest

  Pinterest sure is stepping up its game when it comes to app improvements.

• News: Mozilla to Firefox: 'Browser, heal thyself'

  Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser.

• News: In e-book case, Apple says publishers had already taken measures to counter Amazon

  Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit.

• News: US federal court order halts Dwolla wire transfers to Mt. Gox

  A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox.

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