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• 25 March 2013

• News: HK finance IT heads worry about project scope creep

  Eight in ten (82%) IT heads in Hong Kong are concerned about scope creep in their department, said recruitment service firm Robert Half that recently surveyed CTOs and CIOs working in financial firms in Hong Kong.

• News: Malware abuses Chromium Embedded Framework, developers fight back

  A new version of the TDL rootkit-type malware program downloads and abuses an open-source library called the Chromium Embedded Framework that allows developers to embed the Chromium Web rendering engine inside their own applications, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec.

• News: Hands on with Audiobus and GarageBand

  In a recent update, Apple made the iOS version of GarageBand compatible with the popular audio-channeling utility Audiobus. Although Apple provides ways for some apps to communicate with others--Facebook and Twitter hooks built into iOS, for example--until Audiobus came along, moving sound between iOS music apps was a clumsy process that required saving and exporting audio files and then importing them into compatible apps.

• News: Rob Held, ex-CEO of early Ethernet company Chipcom, passes away at 74

  John Robert (Rob) Held, who made a name for himself in the networking industry during the 1980s and 1990s as president and CEO of Ethernet hub pioneer Chipcom, has died at age of 74. Held suffered a brain hemorrhage earlier this month and died in Boston.

• News: Imagination, TSMC collaborate on graphics chips with 3D transistors

  Graphics processors with 3D transistors could come to smartphones and tablets through a technology collaboration between Imagination Technologies and contract chip maker TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.).

• News: Apple leverages Wi-Fi location with latest acquisition

  Apple has bought a small software startup that lets smartphones and tablets pinpoint their location indoors using nearby Wi-Fi signals. The move apparently is part of the company's efforts to expand and strengthen its location services, which it has developed as an alternative to Google Maps.

• News: Windows 8 Update: 50k apps now in Windows Store

  There are now more than 50,000 Windows 8-only applications available in the Windows Store, a big jump from when Windows 8 launched, but a far cry from what the company projected just before the launch.

• News: Nokia uses its patents to block Google's VP8 video codec

  Nokia said on Monday it is not prepared to license any of its patented technologies that might be essential to the VP8 video codec that is backed by Google.

• News: Oracle buying Tekelec for network signaling software

  Oracle is filling out its product stack for communications with the acquisition of Tekelec, which provides network signaling, policy control and subscriber data management software for mobile data networks. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of this year, were not disclosed.

• News: Career Watch: Linux pros are in demand

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• News: Windows 8 Store cracks 50K app mark, but now what?

  After a sluggish 2013 start, Microsoft's Window 8 App Store appears to be attracting new titles again.

• News: Apache helps free CloudStack from Citrix fetters

  The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix, which acquired the program's codebase in its 2011 purchase of Cloud.com.

• News: Traditional firewalls are no good against today's attacks: F5

  Are traditional firewalls sufficient to protect against today’s sophisticated attacks?

• News: Investigating evidence of hack useful for protection: Trend Micro

  Having good security will create opportunities for an attacker to leave evidence behind.

• News: Facebook adds weather feature for eventgoers

  Facebook is helping people know how to dress for an event, a new feature in its seemingly unending evolution that is puzzling because it offers users the chance to hop off the social networking site.

• News: California senator pushes electronic privacy protection

  Congressional gridlock has stalled action on electronic privacy rights, so a California senator is saying it's time for the states to take the lead in pushing privacy law into the 21st century.

• News: Have an older PC? Try the new Ubuntu Linux-based LXLE

  For users of Microsoft Windows, frequent hardware upgrades tend to be a fact of life in order to keep each new iteration of the resources-hungry operating system running smoothly.

• News: Mobile's browser usage share jumps 26% in three months

  Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company.

• News: Dell confirms bids from Blackstone, Icahn group

  Dell has received two counter-offers related to its plans to go private, with rival bids coming in from private equity fund manager Blackstone and entities associated with investor Carl Icahn.

• News: iPad mini 2 release date: When will Apple's next iPad mini arrive?

  Here's everything you need to know about Apple's iPad mini 2 release date.

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