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• 15 May 2013

• News: The real reason Adobe ditched Creative Suite for Creative Cloud

  Why Adobe's move to a subscription service provoked such strong reactions, what the underlying reasons for the move are – and how to decide if you should move to Creative Cloud.

• 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: Cool tool: One click installation of open source apps

  Downloading open source applications can sometimes be a pain in the neck. There can be multiple drivers, a variety of related components and a handful of little status bars that move from left to right at varying rates of speed.

• News: HANA to fully underpin SAP cloud products within one or two years'

  Enterprise software giant SAP has unveiled a ‘unified' cloud strategy this week, which will see its cloud products supported by its in-memory database technology, HANA, within one or two years.

• 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: VMware and Verizon Tackle BYOD with Dual Persona Phones

  VMware has partnered with Verizon to offer dual persona smartphones for Verizon enterprise customers. It's currently available on two Android-based phones, but more Android devices and iOS support are expected soon.

• News: To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry

  Experts within and outside government IT stress the role the private sector must play in helping cash-strapped federal agencies find order in their growing stockpiles of data.

• News: Oracle opens second UK data centre to support government G-Cloud

  Oracle has announced the opening of a new data centre in the UK to support the government's G-Cloud initiative, following a similar move by Salesforce.com earlier this month.

• News: Facebook investor Thiel leads £3.9m investment in TransferWise

  TransferWise, the peer-to-peer international money transfer business, has secured a $6 million investment round led by Valar Ventures, the venture fund founded by Facebook's first outside investor and co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel.

• News: Tullow Oil revamps finance and supply chain with SAP and Accenture

  Tullow Oil is working with Accenture to design and implement a new SAP solution to replace its existing accounting and supply chain systems, and to develop a new model for managing the integration of the technology and business processes across these two functions.

• News: Vixtel acquires Silicon Valley business

  Australian owned IP PBX systems company, Vixtel, has completed the acquisition of Silicon Valley based glass phone developer, CloudTC.

• News: BUDGET 2013: Initiatives meet with mixed reactions

  Treasurer, Wayne Swan, revealed the 2013/14 Federal Budget yesterday, but some of its initiatives have been met with mixed reactions by ICT industry experts.

• News: Vend raises $6.6m from investors

  Online point of sale (POS) software vendor, Vend, has raised $6.6 million of new capital which will be used for product enhancement and the expansion of operations in New Zealand, Australia, and the US.

• News: So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos

  Regular PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch, a Linux distribution I covered last fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and alternative Cinnamon desktop environment.

• News: Telstra speeds IP telephony activations with BPM

  Telstra has reduced the time of its order-to-activation process for its Telstra IP telephony service by 70 per cent after implementing business process management (BPM) software by Pegasystems, a Telstra official told the Gartner BPM Summit yesterday in Sydney.

• 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: VMware launches dual persona feature for Verizon smart phones

  Through a deal with Verizon, VMware is going to offer the ability for employees to download a app that allows their companies to run a standardized corporate version of Android OS on their phones along side their personal version.

• 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: BlackBerry to launch BBM for iOS and Android

  BlackBerry will launch BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) on both iOS and Android this summer.

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