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• 06 January 2012

• News: Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey

  As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it's getting harder for IT to maintain application visibility and control performance. Trends such as consumerization, mobility and cloud computing are also increasing business risk, CIOs say.

• News: Seven Little-known Ways to Sell Your Ideas

  If an idea is good, it will be bought, right? Wrong. The world is not as Kant desired it and humans are not perfectly rational.

• News: U.S. report sees perils to America's tech future

  The ability of the U.S. to compete globally is eroding, according to a Commerce Department report released Friday that described itself as a "call to arms."

• News: Symantec confirms source code leak in two enterprise security products

  Symantec late Thursday confirmed that source code used in two of its older enterprise security products was publicly exposed by hackers this week.

• News: E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says

  An electronic ballot scanning device set for use in this year's presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission found.

• News: GCHQ awards bonuses to stop IT security experts leaving

  GCHQ has confirmed that it awards bonuses to its IT security experts in a bid to stop staff leaving for large technology companies such as Google.

• News: Computer science university applications fall

  University applications for computer science courses in the UK have fallen by 7.7 percent in 2012, compared with last year.

• News: La Caixa banks on huge £1.7bn IBM outsourcing deal

  Spanish bank la Caixa has signed a ten year, €2 billion (£1.65 billion) IT outsourcing deal with IBM.

• 05 January 2012

• News: NOAA migrates to Google Apps, but gives users options

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has moved 25,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government.

• News: Oracle users worry upcoming support site upgrade will be another 'fiasco'

  Oracle's impending upgrade to its support portal promises to deliver a "next-generation" experience, but some users are worried they'll endure another "fiasco" of the sort that occurred when Oracle revamped the site in 2009.

• News: RBS IT staff fear the worst as bank considers 10,000 job cuts

  IT staff at the Royal Bank of Scotland are fearing for their jobs after it was revealed that the group is in the advanced stages of drawing up potential plans to nearly halve the size of its investment bank.

• Opinion: The Cloud, Day 21: My Data Might Be Safer in the Cloud

  Yesterday I talked about my concerns about the security of my data if I store it in the cloud. It seems like an awful lot of faith to put in a third-party to expect it to protect my data. However, there is a flip side to that coin that suggests that maybe my data is better off in their hands than mine.

• News: Anatomy of an ATM Skimmer Scam

  You may already know that it’s important to protect your financial information when you shop online. But a high-tech threat can steal your credit card information when you’re out shopping around town. Scammers can steal your ATM or credit card information without your even noticing, and the technology behind their tricks is getting more and more advanced.

• News: Ovum: businesses still missing out on power management savings

  IT departments are missing out on potentially significant power consumption savings due to fears that PC power management (PCPM) solutions could disrupt core IT operations, according to analyst firm Ovum.

• News: Gartner lowers 2012 IT spending forecast to 3.7 percent growth

  Research firm Gartner announced Thursday that it has lowered its 2012 IT spending forecast, with spending expected to rise only 3.7 percent, rather than the previous forecast of 4.6 percent growth.

• Opinion: Chattanooga's Innovation Culture

  (This blog post is based on a trip I made to Chattanooga, Tennessee, in late October, 2011. The trip was paid for by the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce as part of their public visibility campaign.)

• News: Remains of the Day: Setec astronomy

  It's all about secrets here on the remains of the day, whether it be Apple's trade secrets, the secrets of crossing the U.S. border with just an iPad, or the secret goodies hidden inside a new year's promotion at Japanese Apple Stores. The remainders for Wednesday, January 4, 2011 have nothing to hide.

• News: Oracle gears Netbeans for building better user interfaces

  With its newly updated NetBeans Java IDE (integrated developer environment), Oracle has focused on updating the tools and libraries so they can be used to build more sophisticated user interfaces.

• News: Can Thompson rejuvenate Yahoo?

  Yahoo's choice of a new corporate head is sending the message that the company will be rebuilt instead of sold, analysts say.

• News: U.S. State Department investigating Huawei on Iran concerns

  The U.S. Department of State said on Wednesday it is investigating Huawei Technologies for allegedly providing censorship and mobile phone tracking technology to Iran, following a request from six U.S. lawmakers.

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