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• 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.

• News: SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

  Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

• News: Digital strongboxes won't solve whistleblower problem for journalists

  Strongbox preserves anonymity at the price of authenticty

• News: Telstra in the sights of Privacy Commissioner

  Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has begun an investigation after some Telstra customer's phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.

• News: 5 Reasons to Move to Big Data (and 1 Reason Why It Won't Be Easy)

  Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business--and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.

• 20 May 2013

• News: Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software

  Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider range of potential users.

• News: How India's IT Outsourcing Leaders Can Stay on Top

  After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.

• News: Opinion varies on action against Chinese cyberattacks

  New cyberespionage attack by People's Liberation Army prompts calls for action such as sanctions, but experts are mixed on best response

• News: Big data can increase competitiveness of businesses

  Big data can improve decision making and increase their competitiveness as per 60 percent of survey respondents of Cisco global study.

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