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• 11 June 2013

• News: MIT researchers advance cloud security with end-to-end encyrption

  Homomorphic encryption-based method makes it possible to process data without having to decrypt it

• News: Bing-powered Siri joins Microsoft's anti-Google allies

  Move over, Google: the latest version of Apple's iOS search assistant, Siri, uses Microsoft's Bing for searches.

• News: 27 new iOS 7 features Apple didn't talk about

  Apple had a lot of ground to cover in its WWDC keynote, which might be why you might have missed some of iOS 7 new features.

• News: Yes, there's a trade show for augmented reality, and its demos are enchanting

  Across the street from the Great America amusement park, a small gathering of augmented reality enthusiasts were building an amusement park of their own. Armed with iPads, Android phones, and high-tech headsets, the people of the Augmented World Expo set about creating a more exciting reality.

• News: Apple unveils big plans for software, hardware for 2013

  Apple product releases may have been few and far between so far in 2013. But if Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday is anything to go by, the company has put the time since its last major press event in October 2012 to good use.

• News: Marketo rolls out 'customer engagement' tools as Salesforce.com threat looms

  Marketo says it has created tools that put it far ahead of rival marketing automation software vendors by making it much easier to run targeted campaigns, and more effective ones to boot.

• News: iOS 7: How its latest features stack up to Android

  Anyone planning to buy a new smartphone this year can't ignore the slew of updates Apple just made to iOS 7. In total, the revisions seem to be influenced by three overriding principles: (1) Revise an operating system that's long overdue for a major overhaul. (2) Don't change things too much, lest millions of happy iOS users rebel. (3) Keep pace with Android, because the developers in Mountain View haven't been spinning their propeller beanies, doing nothing.

• News: Siri gets smarter in iOS 7, ditches Google for search

  As part of Apple's iOS 7 preview, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue showed off some great new Siri features coming to iOS.

• News: Apple gets into the stream of things with iTunes Radio

  While introducing the remodeled Music app in the forthcoming iOS 7 update, Apple senior vice president of Internet software and services Eddy Cue also took the wraps off the company's upcoming streaming music service, iTunes Radio. Rather than an on-demand service such as Spotify, iTunes Radio has more in common with Pandora, where you listen to stations inspired by a particular track, artist, or genre.

• News: Samsung to release Galaxy S4 Active in Australia

  Samsung will release the Galaxy S4 Active in Australia later this year, the company has confirmed.

• News: HP launches new CRM and MDM tools

  Mobile devices and the cloud have transformed the way business is conducted. HP introduced new tools today for business customers to leverage that transformation and work seamlessly with Salesforce and Good for Enterprise.

• News: Android Trojans spread by Bluetooth, hijack bank codes

  Mobile malware gets more complex, defeats two-factor authentication

• News: Tibco Software acquires event processing specialist StreamBase Systems

  Tibco Software has added streaming capabilities to its event-processing portfolio with the acquisition of StreamBase Systems.

• News: European Parliament delays vote on sharing passenger data with US authorities

  European Union lawmakers have delayed a vote on what authorities can do with airline passengers' data following the revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism data collection system.

• News: SoftBank hikes bid for Sprint to $21.6 billion

  SoftBank has sweetened its bid for Sprint Nextel, increasing its total offer to about US$21.6 billion and boosting the amount of cash Sprint shareholders would get.

• 10 June 2013

• News: iWork for iCloud highlights productivity suite update

  iWork is getting down to business in the cloud.

• News: Safari gets energy-efficient update in Mavericks

  When OS X Mavericks arrives later this year, a new version of Safari will come along for the ride. Apple's latest Web browser boasts smoother scrolling, a new Top Sites implementation, and several under-the-hood improvements.

• News: Waze could drive better social tools at Google, experts say

  Waze's crowdsourced traffic and navigation app is attractive to Google, which is said to be a serious suitor for the app, because of the wealth of mapping data it offers. But Waze's biggest draw may be social, some experts say.

• News: Expert: Oracle's Fusion Applications still maturing, but offer real value

  Oracle still has some kinks to work out in its next-generation Fusion Applications and implementing them on-premises remains a daunting task, but customers on older product lines have good things to look forward to if and when they upgrade, according to one veteran of many early Fusion projects.

• News: The world is not flat: Apple unveils 'fresh, light' iOS 7

  Apple CEO Tim Cook and several of his top executives took the stage today at the company's annual developers conference to unveil a spruced-up, new-look iOS 7, introduce iTunes Radio and talk up this fall's "Mavericks" upgrade for OS X.

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