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• 17 May 2013

• News: Banking privacy prevails over copyright enforcement, Dutch court rules

  Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court ruling this week.

• News: Experts ding DHS vulnerability sharing plan as too limited

  Without universally availability, plan could miss smaller businesses hackers could use as an entry point to critical infrastructure companies

• News: EXCLUSIVE: Cyan lays out Australian expansion plan

  Software defined networking (SDN) vendor, Cyan, has laid out its A/NZ expansion plans.

• News: EXCLUSIVE: Channel training integral to Intel smartphone/tablet growth

  Intel worldwide reseller channel organisation general manager and sales and marketing group vice-president, Steve Dallman, has acknowledged the company is "behind and playing catch-up" in the tablet and smartphone space, and said it must crank up its activity across the product segment to become more competitive.

• News: Yahoo wins appeal of $2.7 billion suit in Mexican court

  An appeals court in Mexico has overturned an approximately US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a breach-of-contract suit concerning online directories.

• News: Hong Kong is a haven for startups

  Hong Kong is seen as a haven for startups despite difficulties in getting credit, red tape and market domination by large corporations.

• 16 May 2013

• News: Testing cell networks across America: Phone crime is real

  On a sweltering spring day in southwest Dallas I was standing outside my car, parked on a flat and near-empty stretch of urban road. The sun was quickly drying the cars coming out of the car wash across the street and I was playing with the OpenSignal app on my tester phones. Seemingly out of nowhere an old man was standing behind me. He looked like Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, but on a very bad day.

• News: Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales

  Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

• News: Lawmakers press Google on Glass privacy

  Members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote Thursday to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on how the futuristic device handles privacy issues.

• News: Reseller network important in auxiliary sales of bookings: Expedia

  Expedia may be one of the largest travel companies in the world, with websites in numerous countries and regions, but it still relies on a reseller network.

• News: Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers

  The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday.

• News: Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales

  Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

• News: H-1B politics shifts to backroom as vote nears

  High-tech industry's leading advocate in the immigration bill fight, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has bought himself some time, perhaps until Tuesday, to try get the immigration bill changed to the liking of the tech industry.

• News: Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first speech as CEO

  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies.

• News: Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK

  Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011.

• News: NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

  E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.

• News: U.S. CIO Shares Vision for Federal Agency IT Operations

  Steven VanRoekel sees the federal-agency CIO as a pivotal figure, but not a micromanager. At FOSE, the nation's tech chief outlines how federal CIOs can lay the groundwork for a more fluid, productive IT apparatus.

• News: German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court

  Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday.

• News: Online gaming firm replaces Sage and Quickbooks with NetSuite OneWorld

  Online game company Zattikka has deployed NetSuite's OneWorld software simplify its financial systems across its international operation, replacing Sage and QuickBooks implementations.

• News: TechnoPlanet Productions extends reach into Australia

  International channel marketing and communications company, TechnoPlanet Productions, is expanding its reach into Australia, aiming to help Australian resellers build their businesses.

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