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• 19 June 2013

• News: Dell committee says Icahn's new proposal is not 'actionable'

  A Dell special committee has rejected a new proposal from a key shareholder Carl C. Icahn, and said it will continue to support the proposal by founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to take the company private.

• News: Dish won't make new bid for Sprint, clearing path for SoftBank

  Dish Network won't try to beat SoftBank's US$21.6 billion bid for Sprint Nextel, apparently clearing the way for the Japanese service provider to buy Sprint.

• 18 June 2013

• News: Icahn acquires larger stake in Dell, proposes new buyout deal

  Carl Icahn has acquired a larger stake in Dell and called for a better buyout offer than the proposal of US$13.65 per share from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners.

• News: Steve Jobs' draft email plays pivotal role in antitrust case

  An email composed, but never sent, by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs may prove instrumental in the Justice Department's case that Apple, along with the five largest book publishers, colluded to fix prices for electronic books.

• News: States tackling Google on human trafficking, drugs

  The attorneys general of several states are turning up the heat on Google, concerned that the search engine giant makes it easier for criminals to sell illegal drugs online, engage in human trafficking and peddle pirated intellectual property.

• News: US states' attorneys general to take aim at Internet 'safe harbor' law

  Frustrated by their difficulty prosecuting cases involving online content that is illegal or damaging to individuals, a group of state attorneys general are taking action.

• News: EU institutions' sites move toward compliance on cookie-tracking laws

  Europe’s top law-making body is working to bring its websites into line with the cookie tracking laws it enforces on other entities.

• News: HP shakes up management team of PC division

  Hewlett-Packard has shuffled the management of its PC division as it tries to sharpen its focus on growth markets.

• News: Swedish court OKs Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm Warg's extradition to Denmark

  The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, the court confirmed Tuesday.

• News: How to Evaluate the Risk of Outsourcing Locations

  IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions.

• News: Profile IT: St Mary's College ICT manager, Paul John Stanners

  A lifestyle choice led Paul John Stanners to leave Western Australia and settle in Hobart, Tasmania. The St Mary's College ICT manager spoke to Computerworld Australia about tablets, school funding and his electric mountain bike.

• News: Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire over takeover plan

  Sprint Nextel sued Clearwire and Dish Network on Monday in a bid to block Dish from taking over Clearwire, Sprint's majority-owned network partner.

• News: How Apple shook up the electronic book market

  Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself.

• 17 June 2013

• News: Role of partners has evolved to solving business problems: Juniper

  Resellers are moving away from the pure product sell to working together to solve business problems for customers, according to Juniper A/NZ vice president, Mark Ablett.

• News: Rambus, STMicroelectronics settle lawsuits, sign patent agreement

  Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements.

• News: European trust in US compromised, says EU data protection head

  Europe’s top privacy watchdog and the Digital Agenda Commissioner both said Monday that more transparency and trust is needed between the European Union and the United States following the Prism scandal.

• News: Experts support Google in Oracle's lawsuit over Java APIs

  Nearly three-dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.

• News: Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers

  Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement between Dec. 1 and May 31, the company said on Monday.

• 15 June 2013

• News: Facebook, Microsoft disclose little on national security requests

  Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday.

• 14 June 2013

• News: Samsung's next big thing - born in the USA?

  Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley?

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