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• 06 May 2013

• News: Tablet shipments to outpace laptops in 2013, NPD says

  New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows RT, research firm NPD DisplaySearch reported on Monday.

• News: Apple breaks into Fortune 500's top 10

  Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP.

• News: Five overlooked abilities of the Finder's Path Bar

  When you’re working in a deeply nested folder (a folder within a folder within…), the Finder provides several options for moving back up through the hierarchy. But only one provides both at-a-glance info and powerful shortcuts for working with files: the Path Bar.

• News: BMC going private in $6.9 billion deal

  BMC has agreed to sell itself to a private investment consortium headed up by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital in a deal worth approximately US$6.9 billion.

• News: How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• News: Amazon's new China app store could help pave way for Kindle products

  Amazon.com has updated its mobile app store to include support for its Chinese customers, in a sign that the U.S. company could be preparing to sell its Kindle e-readers and tablets in the country.

• 05 May 2013

• News: Instagram will let you tag friends in photos

  Instagram is getting a little bit more like its parent company, Facebook, with a new feature that lets you tag your friends in photos.

• News: What I'm Playing: Wish upon a Star (Command)

  The game-making gurus over at Cartoon Network's Adult Swim have a knack for crafting entertaining, competitive experiences out of whole cloth; Robot Unicorn Attack 2 is their latest endeavor. It's an endless runner in the vein of games like Canabalt or Temple Run. There are only two buttons: jump to leap over chasms, and dash to bash through obstacles. You'll accumulate points as you run, and can also collect fairies to boost your score, and tears, which serve as the in game currency.

• News: Nerdcore mixes geek culture with hip-hop

  Henry Bowers, a rapper born in Sweden, cuts an intimidating figure. Dreadlocks stream from beneath his black beanie, merging into the gargantuan beard he wears. He looks like a modern-day viking, teeth bared as he snarls an answering rhyme to his opponent.

• News: Google and Adobe beautify fonts on Linux, iOS

  Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and Google.

• News: Experts hope for another failure in next Anonymous attack

  Twist in the planned U.S. attack is to target small banks, which are unlikely to have the same level of sophistication in their defenses

• News: Pentagon nod shows Android can be as secure as BlackBerry

  Samsung's Knox system for Android devices gets approval for use in government and military like the BlackBerry, once the gold standard

• News: Google bares Chrome's Trojan strategy with native-style packaged apps

  Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps" is part of a strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ecosystem, an analyst said today.

• News: Burts Potato Chips' ERP cooks up better supply chain and financials

  Burts Potato Chips has deployed a new ERP system to improve its supply chain and financials.

• 03 May 2013

• News: SAP launches free online training for HANA, other new technologies

  SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program available at no charge.

• News: Free Game Friday: Minimalist games

  Minimalism is generally a virtue in online games that don't have the massive teams of programmers to make games of amazing scope possible, but the new Ludum Dare has transformed that design principle into a theme by explicitly making their new challenge about minimalism. Not every game this week comes from Ludum Dare, but they all share that love of doing more with less.

• News: Hands on: Instacast for OS X beta is a good listener

  If you love to listen to podcasts on your iPhone or iPad, you're probably familiar with Vemedio's Instacast, a $5 app that lets you consume your favorite shows through an elegant and well-thought-out user interface.

• News: easyJet trials mobile boarding passes, excludes Windows and BlackBerry

  EasyJet is now trialling mobile boarding passes for passengers but they have to first use an easyJet app to do it, which doesn't run on Windows or BlackBerry phones.

• News: Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools

  Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn.

• News: Outlook.com vs. Gmail: What Microsoft is still missing

  The great Hotmail migration is over. Microsoft recently announced that Hotmail as we've known it for yours is gone baby gone, and all its users have been transitioned to Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million users worldwide.

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