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23 May 2013
News: Box buys iOS app to improve its own

Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.
How-Tos: Move contacts from BlackBerry to iPhone

We show you how to transfer business contacts from a BlackBerry to an iPhone.
News: Java developer says he built, launched basic open source office suite in 30 days

A freelance Java developer claims it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes.
News: IT security vendors seen as clueless on industrial control systems

Even the most innocuous security processes used for traditional IT systems could spell disaster in an ICS
News: Immigration Reform Bill Takes Aim at Indian IT Outsourcing Companies

India's application development and maintenance business will take a hit if a provision of the U.S. Senate immigration bill becomes law, and some experts say the restrictions will drive more outsourcing offshore.
News: Telstra restructure a correct step: Paul Budde

While Telstra's restructure, announced yesterday, has attracted negative attention, the telco's willingness to embrace the transformation is a major step in the right direction, according to independent industry analyst, Paul Budde.
News: Dell SecureWorks lands in Australia

Following its launch in Japan in February, information security services provider, Dell SecureWorks, is now moving into the Australian and New Zealand (A/NZ) market as part of the first phase of its Asia-Pacific (APAC) expansion strategy.
News: Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering, adds data centers in two regions

Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face of natural disasters.
22 May 2013
News: Act on technology to achieve competitive advantage

Mobile, social, virtualisation, big data and cloud are well past the point of exploration and are at the point where they can be leveraged for businesses to gain a competitive advantage, according to Accenture's chief technology officer Paul Daugherty.
News: CIOs need to rethink their roles, MIT symposium panelists say

By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.
News: Microsoft wises up, pushes Office in latest Surface TV ad

Since it launched in late 2012, Microsoft has positioned its Surface tablet as a fun, hip alternative tablet, emphasizing its construction and form factor. That failed. So with its latest commercial, Microsoft has returned to its corporate roots: productivity.
News: Exclusive: Sophos hires Delaney to lead the channel

Security vendor, Sophos has hired Karen Delaney as its new channel director in A/NZ.
News: Aussie start up launches online document platform

The founder of live video social network, Kondoot.com, Mark Cracknell, in partnership with Mark Smith, have launched a digital signature platform called SignForms.com.
News: CIOs see potential for innovation, but lack delivery: survey

There are only a few CIOs who are delivering on their innovation initiatives in their organisations, with the majority struggling to find the time and resources to make it happen, according to Harvey Nash's 2013 global CIO survey.
News: Jive's Producteev task management app now free for unlimited users

Jive Software has eliminated the limit on the number of people who can use its social task management application Producteev for free within a company.
News: Windows Azure becoming local in Australia

Microsoft is making Australia a new major region for Windows Azure, with plans to enhance its Cloud services in the country by opening two sub-regions located in New South Wales and Victoria.
21 May 2013
News: Aurora hackers said to have accessed law enforcement targets

Chinese cyber marauders sought more than just information on activists -- they wanted access to FBI, DOJ investigations on spies in the U.S.
News: Apple defends offshore decisions that result in low taxes

Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company is ducking taxes by shifting profits to subsidiaries that the company does not consider tax residents of any nation.
News: Gartner analysts on the 'Nexus of Forces'

What are the new forces that are transforming the way people and businesses relate to technology?
News: IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot

Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies better field customer phone calls.