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• Chromebooks make the grade among school CIOs

  School system CIOs in the U.S. are embracing Chromebooks, delivering a tremendous lift to the platform. That's also its downside.

• Let the battle commence: Apple looks to quash Spotify by integrating Beats into iPhone

  Spotify, one of Europe's most successful startups, could be about to feel the wrath of Apple, after it was reported that the Silicon Valley heavyweight intends to integrate the Beats music streaming service it acquired from musician Dr Dre into iPhones and iPads around the world.

• Facebook's privacy blunders may trip up potential enterprise push

  If Facebook launches a social network for the workplace, CIOs will have to decide whether they can get past Facebook's history of privacy issues.

• Facebook may be building social network for the enterprise

  Facebook may be expanding from a social website where users share photos of their favorite sandwiches and pets, to a network focused on business users.

• iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending May 30

  With Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 starting Monday June 2, it's déjà vu all over again with iPhone and iOS rumors that have been circulating since the end of WWDC 2013.

• Apple plots home break-in, home automation break-through

  It looks like Apple will trumpet its entry into the home automation market next week at its annual developers conference.

• Microsoft lawyer: Let customers decide country where cloud data is stored

  Microsoft will let its foreign cloud customers decide what country their data is stored in as a way to avoid local laws that might compromise their data privacy, the company's top lawyer says.

• CIOs need to get their house in order, CFO panel says

  CIOs need to get their house in order before they get a seat at the top table, a panel of finance executives said.

• HTC may be hitching its wagon to Amazon's star

  Two of the longest-running go-to narratives in the Android market – HTC is a shambles and Amazon wants to release a phone – have been bolted together like an airplane's wing section, thanks to a report from the Financial Times that threw Android watchers into paroxysms of raising their eyebrows when it came out this week.

• Amazon working with HTC on smartphones

  It appears that Amazon will eventually produce a smartphone -- the question is not if, but when.

• Elon Musk: Tesla's driverless car will be street-ready in three years

  Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has raised the ante on the rest of the automobile industry, declaring in a recent interview with the Financial Times that his company's self-driving car will be street-ready by 2016.

• Windows Phone 'weak', Huawei sneers

  Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes.

• Google may build early models of Glass in U.S.

  Early models of Google's wearable computer, Glass, may be manufactured in the U.S., according to a report.

• AGSM Executive Programs rated number one for training in Asia Pac

  UK newspaper Financial Times has ranked Australian Graduate School of Management’s Executive Programs the number one custom programs provider in the Asia Pacific region. The paper, which ranked 100 executive training programs, also placed the AGSM’s Custom Programs at 31 and Open Programs at 51 in the world.