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• 18 April 2013

• News: VMware Adds Project Management, Secure IM to Socialcast Platform

  The virtualization giant adds project management and secure messaging capabilities to its enterprise social networking and collaboration platform in an effort to break down information silos and centralize workflow.

• News: BroadSoft CEO: Here's why communications is moving to the cloud

  You might not know BroadSoft if you're not in the telecommunications space. But if you use a hosted unified communications service from a provider like Verizon, Swisscom, or any of about 500 other telcos around the world, you may be a BroadSoft customer without realizing it.

• How-Tos: Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

  Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.

• News: EXCLUSIVE: As IT becomes critical, more dependence will be placed on datacentres, says NextDC

  Future-proofing the datacentre should be a core focal area for end user organisations, according to datacentre vendor, NextDC.

• 17 April 2013

• News: US House moves toward passage of CISPA

  The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share a wide amount of customer information with government agencies.

• Opinion: Viewing project-related email archives

  Reader Cathron Brewton, like many of us, would like to organize her old email in an efficient way. She writes:

• News: Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication

  Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products.

• News: Firm says Epicor wants to 'monopolize' services market for its ERP software

  An IT services firm recently sued by Epicor has responded, calling the claims "unwarranted" and part of an attempt on Epicor's part to "monopolize" the services market for its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

• News: Tata reports strong revenue and profit growth despite uncertain market

  India's Tata Consultancy Services reported strong first quarter revenue and profit growth, despite indications that the outsourcing market is still uncertain.

• News: IT enduring largest disruption to date, says EMC's Brian Gallagher

  The IT industry is in the midst of its largest disruption to date, according to Brian Gallagher, President of EMC's Enterprise Storage Division.

• News: Replacing Messages: Three alternative apps for iOS messaging

  Messages for iOS is arguably the most-used app on my iPhone: I use it more than Mailbox, more than Camera+, more than Google Maps, and definitely more than Phone. And I'm probably not alone here. Text messaging is an integral part of the mobile device experience, and Messages--specifically its integration with iMessage--makes it a joy to use.

• News: Microsoft finds Trojan that hides files to evade analysis

  Win32/Nemim.gen!A highlights sophisticated techniques used to protect malware as a kind of intellectual property

• News: Employers in denial about insider threat to data security

  Study finds nearly half of UK employers trust workers not to steal company information

• News: CISPA sponsor compares opponents to 14-year-olds

  The chief sponsor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. Congress has ignited a Twitter storm by suggesting many opponents of the proposed cyberthreat sharing bill are 14-year-olds in basements.

• News: Boeing backs metadata for information security

  Metadata – 'data about data' such as the non-image-related information stored when people snap a photo on a digital camera – should be used to label corporate information according to one US security specialist.

• How-Tos: 7 quick tips for holding a successful Twitter chat

  A Twitter chat is an awesome way to engage an audience, increase your brand's social visibility, and connect with an audience in a new way.

• News: Certus restutcures and expands

  IBM software and services company, Certus Solutions, has restructured part of its business, splitting the management of two lines - business analytics (BA) and information management (IM) - as a result of significant growth in both areas.

• 16 April 2013

• News: Yahoo profit jumps by 36 percent amid a decline in revenue

  Yahoo's profits rose more than 30 percent in the first quarter, due to a variety of factors including lowered operating costs, though sales at the company declined.

• News: Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money

  Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was charged with hacking the IBM mainframe of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that provided tax services to the Swedish government, and the IBM mainframe of the Swedish Nordea bank, the Swedish public prosecutor said on Tuesday.

• News: Cisco Connect 2013: The next frontier

  At the Cisco Connect conference in Dubai, Cisco offered a glimpse into a fantastical world of next-generation technologies, urging the UAE to be bold in its innovations.

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