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• 10 April 2012

• Opinion: Egnyte Launches Aggressive Campaign to Poach Box Customers

  When it comes to cloud storage and file sharing, Dropbox seems to be the undisputed champion on the consumer side. But, for business customers looking for a more robust cloud storage service and better management tools, Box is a clear leader. Egnyte wants to change that, though, and it's going for the jugular with its Box Buster Buyout program.

• News: Bill would ban employers from seeking Facebook passwords from workers, job seekers

  Maryland's General Assembly Monday passed legislation that bars employers in the state from asking workers and job seekers for access to their personal social media accounts as a condition of employment.

• Feature: Why Windows 8 is good for business

  Although it is a radical step, migrating your business to Windows 8 could make sense. PC Advisor explains why

• News: How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall

  Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.

• News: Bare Bones releases TextWrangler 4.0

  Bare Bones Software on Tuesday released TextWrangler 4.0, a significant upgrade to the free, pared-down alternative to the company’s flagship BBEdit ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ) text editor.

• News: Epicor customer lawsuit may show danger of going solo on ERP software project

  Epicor is being taken to court by a customer over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation, but the case may illustrate the potential dangers customers engender by embarking on such IT projects by themselves.

• News: HP takes aim at Amazon with public cloud, virtual network components

  Hewlett-Packard today announced a series of open-source-based cloud offerings and added network automation capabilities to its hardware products in an attempt to carve out its piece of a market currently topped by Amazon Web Services.

• Opinion: Using Creative Commons to Find Photos You Can Use

  Photos and the Internet go together like peanut butter and jelly. For as long as there have been web browsers, people have generously posted photos online--which other people have then downloaded and used for their own purposes, whether or not they've actually asked for permission. To make it easier to legally and ethically reuse photos posted online, the Creative Commons license was created. I first mentioned Creative Commons in "Your Photos, Your Rights, and the Law." This week let's learn a little more about Creative Commons--both how you can use it to share your own photos and how to use other peoples' works.

• News: US carriers join forces on stolen phones database, play catch up to rest of world

  Verizon Wireless, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile are joining forces with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to work on curbing phone thefts using a central database that will store information about stolen phones, according to reports.

• News: Mining firm GMC deploys cloud-based ERP

  Global mining consultant GMC has gone live with a cloud-based business software deployment from NetSuite to serve its roaming employees.

• News: Computer science enrollments rise again by 10%

  Interest in computer science continues to grow among undergrad students, who pushed enrollments up nearly 10% in the 2011-12 academic year. This marks the fourth straight year of increases.

• News: NEC launches software to quickly find video clips in large archives

  NEC has begun sales of new software to quickly find video clips in large archives, which is well-suited for finding illegal content on video sharing websites, it said Tuesday.

• News: New healthcare rule to cut red tape, save up to $4.6B, says HHS

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday announced a proposed rule that it said would cut the red tape involved in processing medical payments and save the industry $4.6 billion over the next decade.

• 09 April 2012

• News: Oracle attacks tape management with analytics software

  Tape-storage administrators will be able to get performance information and immediate directions to prevent data loss in new management software, called StorageTek Tape Analytics, that Oracle introduced on Monday.

• News: Twitter releases its MySQL scalability tweaks

  Twitter has released some of the tweaks it has made to MySQL, potentially bringing greater scalability to the open-source relational database management system.

• News: Microsoft building new data center in Wyoming

  Microsoft plans to build a new data center, this time in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

• News: 13 Tips for Better Joomla CMS Security

  As Joomla grows in popularity as an open source CMS more and more individuals and businesses of all sizes rely on the platform to get their products and services online. In fact, more than 2.5 percent of websites are running on a Joomla CMS -- and for good reason.

• News: Twitterverse in uproar over Facebook's Instagram buy

  Soon after Facebook announced that it was buying Instagram, maker of the popular photo-sharing app, Twitter began to light up with talk about it.

• News: Who should be at the root of protecting the nation's healthcare data?

  What are CISOs working in healthcare concerned about when it comes to protecting medical data in the future? There are a variety of concerns associated with who should and shouldn't be able to access your individual medical record. This is both a policy issue and a technology issue for the CISO.

• News: Facebook to Buy Instagram for $1 Billion

  Facebook plans to acquire Instagram for roughly $1 billion in cash and stock, but says it will allow the popular photo app to grow independently.

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