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• 15 May 2013

• News: Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde to run for EU parliament

  Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014.

• News: Senators begin contentious H-1B battle

  The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the idea on Tuesday of requiring all H-1B employers to make a "good faith" effort in hiring U.S. workers before taking on an H-1b worker.

• News: Broadcasters say 700MHz auction showed lack of demand

  Broadcasters and the mobile industry had different takeaways about the level of demand for spectrum in Australia after the government failed to sell all of the 700MHz spectrum in the Digital Dividend auction.

• 14 May 2013

• News: Salesforce.com adds central file view to Chatter mobile app

  Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application.

• News: Budget 2013: Doesn't fully support ICT sector

  Treasurer Wayne Swan's 2013 Budget does not fully support the ICT sector or investment in ICT required to drive productivity and competitiveness, according to advisory firm, Grant Thornton.

• News: Health care breach victims plummet

  Tougher rules and big settlements are said to be behind the fall in affected clients, but one group calls it the 'calm before the storm'

• News: Facebook attacked with credential-harvesting malware

  Dorkbot variant infection unusual because the criminals exploited a flaw in the file-sharing site MediaFire to spread the malware

• News: US agencies can't track savings from data center closings

  The U.S. government's effort to close 1,253 of its data centers is falling short of its goal, and agencies haven't been able to track projected cost savings for the initiative, a government auditor told lawmakers.

• News: Google makes Go faster

  Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors.

• News: Tech may sink immigration bill if unhappy, Sen. Hatch warns

  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began debate on more than 300 amendments to the comprehensive immigration bill, including a number of changes to sections on H-1B visas.

• News: Rackspace to help customers debug their programs

  Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform.

• News: Q&A: Nick Carr on 10th anniversary of 'IT Doesn't Matter'

  Nick Carr rocked the tech world with his controversial essay in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, titled "IT Doesn't Matter." Carr claimed companies were overspending on IT and that the competitive advantage to be gained by tech investments was shrinking as technology became more commoditized and accessible to everyone. On the 10-year anniversary of the article's publication, Carr talked with Network World's Ann Bednarz about what he got right, what he got wrong, and how the piece remains relevant today.

• News: Nick Carr's 'IT Doesn't Matter' still matters

  Nick Carr's article "IT Doesn't Matter" was published in in Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and ignited an industry firestorm for its perceived dismissal of the strategic value of IT.

• News: NetSuite to increase focus on ERP for manufacturers

  Capitalizing on apparent demand from customers, NetSuite is adding new capabilities aimed at manufacturers to its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

• News: First California lawsuit over mobile privacy issues crashes

  A California state court has dismissed a closely watched lawsuit charging that Delta Air Lines failed to comply with state privacy laws for mobile applications

• News: Fed offensive fueling hacker underground, report says

  With the government said to be the biggest buyer of malicious tools, some fear it will weaken the nation's cyber defenses -- public and private

• News: Data centers show signs of 'green fatigue'

  A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overachievers like Google and Microsoft.

• News: How to Know When to Hire Internally and When to Look Outside

  Finding and retaining top talent is a never-ending battle in a market as competitive as IT, which according to BLS stats boasts a 3.5 percent unemployment rate compared to the national average of 7.5 percent. A well-planned recruitment and retention program is the difference between success and failure. "Always be recruiting," says Ron Lichty, co-author of Managing the Unmanageable, "We consider recruiting and hiring to be the most important tasks a manager has."

• News: IDC: MENA businesses should prepare for cloud transition

  Businesses in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face significant transition and data storage challenges as the regional cloud market continues to grow, according to a report from IDC.

• News: Clean bill of health: How Zulekha Hospital achieved ISO 20,000 certification

  A normal business may see much sense in improving the service management of its IT department. If the improvements increase IT's efficiency, reduce costs and minimise downtime, ROI is easily measured.

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