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• 25 April 2013

• News: Yahoo's chairman steps down after a year

  The chairman of Yahoo's board of directors has stepped down from that position and will leave the board entirely later this year, Yahoo said Thursday.

• News: Extreme Networks replaces its CEO again

  Extreme Networks has replaced its CEO again.

• News: Could Privacy Protection Bills Hinder Law Enforcement?

  The Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform bill advances to the Senate floor to better protect email privacy. Meanwhile a House subcommittee considers privacy protections for location data, data which some in law enforcement say is necessary to solve crimes.

• News: Senators stall vote on Internet sales tax for now

  A handful of lawmakers have stalled the U.S. Senate from voting on legislation that would require large Internet and catalog sellers to collect state sales taxes from their customers.

• News: Samsung delays launch of Knox Android security software until 'later date'

  If you're looking for more robust security features for your business's Android phones, you're going to be waiting a while longer--at least if your company relies on hardware from the most popular Android manufacturer in the land.

• News: T-Mobile USA agrees to come clean about 'uncarrier' service plans

  T-Mobile USA's "radical" service plans promising no annual contracts aren't quite as radical as consumers might think, and the mobile operator will change its advertising and offer refunds in a settlement with the state of Washington.

• News: Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS

  Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develop applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

• News: Google's data removal requests spike to over 2,000

  The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ever during the second half of 2012, the company reported Thursday.

• News: Civil rights coalition says EU data protection bill threatens citizens' rights

  A coalition of international civil liberties organizations on Thursday said that some of the proposed changes to Europe's data protection laws would strip citizens of their privacy rights.

• News: VirnetX targets Skype, Lync in new patent attack on Microsoft

  Patent holding company VirnetX this week filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing Microsoft's Skype of infringing six of its patents.

• News: Senate committee limits government electronic surveillance

  A U.S. Senate committee has approved legislation that would give more privacy protection from government surveillance for data stored in the cloud.

• News: Islamic group expands targets in bank DDoS attacks

  The hacktivist group, which has been hammering U.S. banks since late last year, has now expanded attacks to other financial services companies

• News: Nationwide Building Society hit by online banking outage

  Nationwide Building Society's suffered online banking services outage on Tuesday, with customers unable to access account information for most of the day.

• News: EU publishes Google antitrust remedy proposals

  Google's rivals have been given one month to assess the search giant's proposed remedies, the European Commission announced Thursday.

• News: Motorola's Android phones infringe Microsoft SMS patent, German court rules

  Motorola Mobility's Android phones infringe on a Microsoft text messaging patent, the Higher District Court of Munich ruled on Thursday.

• News: Sony doubles profit forecast after selling U.S. headquarters, stock holdings

  Sony has doubled its profit forecast for its recently ended fiscal year, a widely expected move after it sold off major assets including its U.S. headquarters and an office complex in Tokyo.

• News: EU parliament committee votes against air passenger data sharing bill

  European politicians are at loggerheads following a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday that rejected proposals to store information on airline passengers.

• News: US lawmakers plan sweeping review of copyright

  A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age.

• News: Apple is doomed -- to make more money

  Apple tallied $43.6 billion in sales for its fiscal second quarter--a record for the company's March quarter--and saw a net profit of $9.6 billion. So naturally, Wall Street has decided that Apple is doomed.

• News: WikiLeaks donations by Visa ruled OK in Iceland

  The three-year blockade against donations to WikiLeaks may have just been chiseled away, in Iceland, by a ruling handed down by the European country's Supreme Court.

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