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• 14 June 2012

• News: Hadoop Summit brings wave of product enhancements

  The second headline of the story, "Hadoop Summit brings wave of product enhancements," contained a misspelling of the name of the company Pentaho. The second headline has been changed on the wire and now reads:

• News: Amazon Web Services revises support plans, cuts prices

  Amazon has revised its support pricing for Amazon Web Services, expanding basic free support and lowering the cost of premium support.

• News: Yammer buyout could fit with many Microsoft businesses

  Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy enterprise social network company Yammer for $1 billion-plus, a move that could bolster everything from Microsoft's unified communications to CRM businesses.

• News: Esri rolls out ArcGIS map services for the cloud

  Esri today rolled out an ambitious cloud offering for government and enterprise customers that allows users to create data-driven maps and map services without ArcGIS servers or desktop software.

• News: Q&A: Esri's Jack Dangermond on cloud, big data and Apple-vs-Google map wars

  GIS pioneer Jack Dangermond founded Esri in 1969 and has steered the company since the mainframe era. With today's announcement of ArcGIS Online organizational subscriptions, he sees Esri's evolution into the era of cloud and mobile computing. (Insider, registration required.)

• News: LulzSec Reborn aims to keep hacking movement alive

  Real danger from federal officials who 'continue to pooh-pooh' cybercrime, police investigator says

• News: European Commission: Data location should not matter in the cloud

  The physical location of sensitive and personal data should not matter, as long as that data is secure, according to the acting Deputy Director General of Information Society and Media for the European Commission.

• News: Salesforce: concept of private cloud is fundamentally flawed

  Saleforce.com’s chief scientist has slammed the concept of private cloud, claiming that the whole point of cloud computing is that resources, costs and risk are shared between multiple parties.

• News: 64-bit operating systems, virtualization software vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks on Intel CPUs

  Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processors (CPUs), the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said in a security advisory on Wednesday.

• News: Nokia will cut 10,000 jobs worldwide

  Nokia has announced plans to axe 10,000 jobs on a global scale by the end of 2013.

• News: Renault rolls out standardised SaaS HR system

  Carmaker Renault is rolling out a new HR IT system across its global business, in a bid to make its HR function “business enablers”

• News: AT&T works on expanding Toggle BYOD service to PCs, Macs

  AT&T plans to extend its dual-personality software for mobile devices, called Toggle, to provide a walled-off and encrypted work environment within PCs and Macs as well as mobile devices.

• 13 June 2012

• News: In first, Apple issues Java update in sync with Oracle

  Normally 'many, many months' behind, which left 650,000 Macs in lurch with Flashback infections and no fix available

• News: NBN to stop the rural brain drain

  While the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been touted as a boon for education and healthcare, one of the biggest benefits to Australia could be in its ability to stimulate regional economic activity.

• News: LinkedIn: No account breaches in wake of hack

  Social networking site LinkedIn has revealed details of attempts to increase security in the wake of 6.5 million usernames and hashed passwords being published on a Russian hacker forum.

• News: 8 questions that will dominate enterprise cloud adoption

  Enterprises have spent the past few years considering if they'll embrace cloud computing. For the many that have made the move, their attention has now turned to managing the cloud and getting business value from it, says IDC Chief Cloud Analyst Frank Gens.

• News: How the U.S Can Avoid a 'Cyber Cold War'

  As U.S. diplomats seek to elevate issues such as Internet freedom and cybersecurity in their talks with foreign counterparts, they have a tough balance to strike.

• News: Gmail engineer: Women must overcome the impostor syndrome

  It's been a long, interesting journey for Google site reliability manager Sabrina Farmer, who talked about work, success and overcoming self-doubt at the Women in Advanced Computing conference in Boston.

• News: Facebook tackles Hadoop Achilles' Heel

  Running what they believe is the world's largest Hadoop-based collection of data, Facebook engineers have developed a way to circumnavigate a core weakness of the data analysis platform, that of relying on only a single name server to coordinate all operations.

• News: AT&T's Toggle BYOD service lets users shift work phone use to a separate plan

  AT&T's Toggle service for creating work-only sectors of Android phones is expanding to Apple iOS and will let workers put their work-related data usage on a separate account.

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