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• 17 February 2012

• Opinion: Thunderbird Tip: Change IMAP Folder Subscriptions

  Recently I shared a couple Thunderbird tips: How to make e-mail replies start at the top, and how to mark a message as read when you reply.

• News: The advent of the versatilist

  Gartner calls them "versatilists" -- and they are necessary in order to build agile teams.

• News: Tax Sites: TurboTax Is Still the One to Beat

  As more people turn to the Web for help in preparing and filing their income tax returns, some familiar sites continue to beef up their offerings in hopes of attracting newcomers and enticing competitors' customers. Most of the five online tax-prep services we looked at--versions of CompleteTax, H&R Block at Home, TaxAct, Tax Brain, and TurboTax that include guidance for individuals as well as for investors and sole proprietors--now support importing at least some (but regrettably not all) data from a PDF (the most common format for saving a return created online) of your 2010 return. This makes switching services easier than ever.

• News: How to Start Your Business on the Cheap--With Help From the Crowd

  If you need help turning your brilliant idea for a product or service into a functioning business--and get that help for a pittance--look to the Internet. With more than two billion people online, a lot of talent is out there, and many smart and artistic people are willing to help you make your vision into a reality, often at a surprisingly low cost.

• Opinion: The Cloud, Day 24: Backing Up Your Cloud

  There always seems to be a lot of backlash and fuss going around the Internet about how much personal information is shared between my social networks and other sites or services. It occurred to me, though: what if the opposite happened, and rather than too much data being shared you went to visit Facebook or Twitter and all of your data was gone?

• News: Lieberman: Cybersecurity Act of 2012 will help us protect critical infrastructure

  At a hearing on the bill, witnesses and senators said fast action is necessary to protect critical infrastructure against certain attack. The bill's sponsor promised there's no hidden SOPA-PIPA language in the legislation.

• News: Oracle and SAP given June court date for TomorrowNow retrial

  The story "Oracle and SAP given June court date for TomorrowNow retrial" which ran on the wire Feb. 17 misstated the next available date for the retrial. The second sentence in the fourth paragraph should read:

• News: CSC will cut up to 500 staff following NHS IT debacle

  Embattled IT services firm CSC has confirmed it will cut up to 500 staff, a week after it booked a £943 million charge on its failed NHS IT programme.

• News: MIT offers free online electronics course

  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is offering a free, undergraduate-level circuits and electronics course online, to virtual learners around the world.

• News: Goldman Sachs IT analyst 'caught up in major investigation'

  Henry King, a high profile IT analyst at Goldman Sachs, is reportedly under investigation for leaking insider trading information.

• News: Apple could face U.S. lawsuit related to iPad trademark dispute in China

  A trademark dispute in China over the iPad could spill over into U.S courts, after a little-known Chinese company threatened on Friday to sue Apple in the U.S. for among other things allegedly setting up a "fake company" to purchase the rights to the trademark.

• News: Tearing down the walls

  The traditional IT shop is dead, says David Scott, head of business technology and transformation at fuel distribution company Z Energy. He is speaking of the team that sees itself as purely concerned with operationally efficient information technology, provided as a service to "the business".

• News: McCain, GOP Vow Alternative Cybersecurity Bill

  Arizona Republican blasts bipartisan cybersecurity bill for DHS authority, new regulations on private sector operators.

• News: Government needs to address Cloud demand, concerns: Conroy

  Cloud computing has the potential to benefit federal and state governments, but issues such as privacy need to be addressed first, according to federal communications minister, Stephen Conroy.

• News: Oracle and SAP given June court date for TomorrowNow retrial

  Oracle and SAP may be back in court on June 18 to begin a retrial of Oracle's corporate theft lawsuit involving SAP's former TomorrowNow subsidiary, according to a judge's order Thursday.

• 16 February 2012

• News: TechAmerica Foundation: Governments need to get into the cloud

  The cloud is being pitched as the best way to do more with less, but government agencies are slow to modernize, California official stresses

• News: Cybersecurity bill would create costly regulations, say critics

  Leaders in the U.S. Senate are trying to fast-track new cybersecurity legislation that will create costly new regulations for some businesses, some critics said Thursday.

• News: Shylock financial malware back 'with a vengeance'

  There are hints in Shylock terminology to suggest it is coming from Russia or the Ukraine. But who is involved and exactly where it is coming from remains a mystery.

• News: 8 Tips to Defend Against Online Financial Fraud Threats

  Criminals in 2012 are increasingly targeting the accounts of business owners and executives as a way to facilitate financial fraud and CIOs can help protect their organizations against these attacks.

• News: IBM: Future computers will be constant learners

  Tomorrow's computers will constantly improve their understanding of the data they work with, which in turn will help them provide users with more appropriate information, predicted the software mastermind behind IBM's Watson system.

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