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• 06 June 2013

• News: Free Google Drive tools you're not using (but should be)

  Though barely a year old, Google Drive is already a very popular service. It's easy to use if you already have a Google account, and its prices put Dropbox to shame. On Google Drive, 100GB costs a mere $5 a month (and Google even bumps up your Gmail storage to 25GB as a bonus). Dropbox charges double the price for 100GB.

• News: Microsoft claims IE consumes less power than other browsers

  Summer's approaching, and with energy bills are going up. And if you want to cut your PC's power bill, you should use--Microsoft's Internet Explorer?

• News: How to Use Gamification to Engage Employees

  Gamification is the process of using game thinking and game mechanics to solve problems and engage users, according to Gabe Zichermann, author of the upcoming book "The Gamification Revolution" and founder of Dopamine, a consulting agency focused on gamified campaigns for employees and consumers.

• News: Remains of the Day: Don't touch that dial

  Apple may broadcast ads up and down the dial, the carriers may be dialing down your speeds, and released Steve Jobs emails showed that he had publishing execs dialed in. Dial "R" for the remainders for Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

• News: Japan's Rakuten continues Amazon pursuit, will buy US logistics firm

  Rakuten, Japan's largest online retailer, is acquiring a U.S. logistics firm as it continues to build out its infrastructure to compete with foreign rivals like Amazon.com.

• News: Privacy Act reforms to hit

  Significant and costly changes in the Privacy Act, scheduled for March 2014, are set to seriously impact the majority of companies handling personal information.

• News: Facebook sets Sept. 12 deadline for moving games to local currencies

  Facebook is phasing out its Credits virtual payment system and will be transitioning all games integrated into the social network to a new local payments API by Sept. 12, the company announced Wednesday.

• 05 June 2013

• News: Advertising group close to mobile privacy guidelines

  The Digital Advertising Alliance, a coalition of online advertising networks and companies, will soon release guidelines for the use of targeted advertising on mobile devices, although it's been difficult to come up with standards in the diverse mobile marketplace, members of the DAA said.

• News: New HTML5 browser app brings Pandora to game consoles and smart TVs

  Instead of launching native apps for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Pandora hopes you'll jam to its tunes through the consoles' Web browsers. The streaming music service has just launched a new Pandora Web app, which is accessible through the two game consoles and other set-top boxes with browsers that support HTML5.

• News: Researchers use Wi-Fi and gestures to make a 'smart home'

  Don't like the song playing on the stereo? Just wave it goodbye, literally.

• News: Soon you too may be able to order shrimp on Amazon

• News: Breast cancer survivors challenge Facebook's nudity policy

  After coming under fire in recent weeks for allowing anti-woman sentiment to flourish on the site, Facebook is now facing the heat from a group of breast cancer survivors accusing the social networking site of removing content that could help women.

• News: Get your streaming Dora fix on Amazon Prime Instant Video

  Amazon announces a new deal with Viacom to bring 250 TV seasons to its Prime Instant Video service.

• News: Amazon.com sets up portal in India, will only service other retailers

  Amazon.com has set up a website with its brand in India, but will not be selling on the site.

• News: Google Glass competitors vie for attention as industry grows

  Plenty of eyes may be focused on Google Glass as the device attracts attention in the field of "augmented reality," but a crop of other players developing their own glasses-like products are also hoping to stand out as the industry matures.

• 04 June 2013

• News: Google Chrome bags a rare critical vulnerability fix

  Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including one of the few labeled critical that it has fixed in the five-year history of its browser.

• News: Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages

  Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of domain name management and DNS hosting services.

• News: IE11 on Windows 7? Mum's the word from Microsoft

  Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 with Windows 8.1 later this year, but isn't saying whether the browser would also be available to Windows 7 users

• News: Computerworld Honors 2013: Technology gives people with disabilities better access to website content

  The Web promises to deliver information to all, but those with disabilities are often unable to access the content on many websites.

• News: Feedly announces Reeder, Newsify, more as first RSS app partners

  Continuing its aggressive moves to replace the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader as the RSS service of choice, Feedly on Monday announced it would provide its API to a number of established apps that previously used Google's Reader API as the foundation of their offerings.

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