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• 16 December 2011

• News: Queensland Ambulance Service to get new patient transport system

  Growing demand from an ageing population has prompted to Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) to begin the search for a new ambulance transport request and scheduling system.

• News: How to Avoid Future Shock

  Too many senior executives get strategic planning wrong because they don't know how to interpret trends, says consultant Daniel Burrus

• News: House committee appears headed toward approving SOPA

  The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee slowly moved toward approval of the controversial copyright enforcement bill Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), although the panel was able to debate only a handful of amendments Thursday.

• News: Apple launches iTunes Match internationally

  Carrying around your entire music library just got a little bit easier for international users, as Apple on Thursday began rolling out iTunes Match to countries beyond the United States and Brazil.

• 15 December 2011

• News: Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software

  Salesforce.com announced Thursday it will acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software market.

• News: American Airlines CIO on Stepping Down Amid Bankruptcy

  In this Q&A, CIO Magazine Hall of Fame member and soon-to-be ex-CIO of American Airlines Monte Ford talks about technology influence, cultivating future leaders and feeling sad.

• News: Coming soon: Ubiquitous surveillance from Big Brother's wayback machine

  As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report.

• News: Facebook unfriends coal, friends Greenpeace in clean energy campaign

  Greenpeace International has ended a long-running campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for its data centers, after Facebook agreed to promote clean and renewable energy, the two said Thursday.

• News: Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software

  Salesforce.com announced Thursday it will acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software market.

• News: 30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011

  2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs.

• News: Feds launch 'Healthy App Challenge'

  The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has partnered with the Surgeon General to launch the Healthy App Challenge, which invites developers to submit health, wellness, and fitness apps.

• News: Putting a Lock on Password Management

  A cancer diagnostics firm is using a single sign-on service to secure a growing pool of SaaS subscriptions.

• News: Zambian government cracks down on counterfeit handsets

  As Chinese-made counterfeit mobile handsets continue flooding the African market, the Zambian government has become the first country in the region moving to close all outlets selling the phones around the country.

• Opinion: Uses for a 'blind' MacBook Pro

  Reader Sigil has an interesting question regarding a MacBook Pro with ailing i-sight. He (or she, I suppose) writes:

• News: Zoho guns for Salesforce.com with major upgrade to its SaaS CRM software

  Zoho unveiled a significant upgrade to its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software on Thursday with new features including an overhauled user interface and an integration with LinkedIn.

• News: Enomaly buy to fuel new Virtustream exchange

  Virtustream's acquisition of Enomaly could help enterprises turn a drawback of private clouds--excess capacity--into a profit center.

• News: Cloud UI Design Mistakes to Avoid

  I've written for years that it is impossible to make a product too easy to use. But the industry has proved me wrong, by making products that are so focused on easy that they encourage sloppy, unmaintainable system configurations. In the pursuit of something easy enough for mortals to use (and sales reps to demo), some cloud vendors are paving the way for a big mess a few months after deployment.

• News: 3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches

  Tablets are a tricky proposition for many IT departments since they have many of the content creation capabilities of laptops but lack mature security software.

• News: BAE Systems cuts licensing and IT maintenance costs

  BAE Systems' Military Air and Information (MAI) division has signed a contract with business application software provider Infor to support its business transformation programme.

• News: Keep Track of Your Employees with an Online In/Out Board

  Does your office still use one of those analog "in-out boards" to keep track of everyone's location status? Hey, boss: the 19th century called, and they want their mortar and pestle back!

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