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• 17 May 2013

• News: Yahoo calls press conference amid Tumblr acquisition rumors

  Yahoo has called a mystery press event in New York City on Monday afternoon, hot on the heels of rumors that it plans to buy Tumblr for US$1 billion.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

• News: Texas drone bill sparks a battle

  The battle to find a balance between privacy concerns and the beneficial use of drones for commercial and law enforcement purposes is in sharp focus in a bill that's winding its way through the Texas legislature.

• News: T-Mobile drops challenge to FCC's net neutrality rules

  T-Mobile USA has dropped a pending challenge to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

• News: Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges

  Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

• News: Nation's critical infrastructure cyber defenses weak, DHS tells hearing

  Experts criticize government's threat sharing, noting it wants the private sector to be generous but it's stingy with the private sector

• News: Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy

  Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.

• News: Dual-Persona Smartphones Not a BYOD Panacea

  Mobile vendors are pushing technologies that split a smartphone into two separate platforms for business and personal data. Problem solved, right? Not so fast. It's still easy for employees to circumvent the two worlds.

• 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.

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