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• 10 June 2013

• News: After 10 years on Mars, NASA rover begins new mission

  After nearly 10 years since it left Earth, NASA's rover Opportunity is about to head out on a new mission -- a weeks-long trek to study a new area on Mars.

• News: Immigration bill could hike IT hiring, or send more IT jobs offshore, says Gartner

  The Senate immigration bill's impact on offshore outsourcing will be disruptive to outsourcers, their customers and potentially to the U.S. IT labor market, according to Gartner.

• News: iBooks to come to the Mac

  Book lovers, teachers, and students rejoice: iBooks has come to the Mac--and it supports iBooks Author books, too. Apple Senior Vice President Craig Federighi previewed the new Mac version of iBooks to a cheering audience at Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, alongside other improvements in the upcoming OS X Mavericks.

• News: OS X catches a wave, as Apple previews OS X Mavericks

  When it comes to OS X, the cat is out of the bag.

• News: Labour Party deploys new ERP system to control costs

  The Labour Party is implementing a new ERP system from Microsoft to help get its finances in order.

• News: New backdoor malware 'KeyBoy' used in targeted attacks in Asia, researchers say

  Users from Vietnam, India, China, Taiwan and possibly other countries, were targeted as part of an attack campaign that uses Microsoft Word documents rigged with exploits in order to install a backdoor program that allows attackers to steal information, according to researchers from security firm Rapid7.

• News: AT&T hikes phone upgrade threshold to 24 months

  If you've been counting down the days until you can get a new smartphone on your contract, you'll have to wait just a little longer, because AT&T is extending the waiting period for phone upgrades from 20 to 24 months.

• News: Comcast subscribers will share Wi-Fi signal, spread hotspots

  Comcast announced today that it will add a public Wi-Fi signal to private wireless routers. At no additional cost, the company's Xfinity Wireless Gateway router devices will beam a public signal that will be accessible to any Comcast Xfinity customers. In effect, the addition will extend the company's already 150,000-hotspot strong Xfinity Wi-Fi network by millions of users-cum-network nodes.

• News: Social Sites Beat Retailers and Banks for Consumer Protection and Privacy

  For the second year in a row, social media sites (including gaming and dating sites) are leading the way in consumer security and privacy protections, beating out Internet retailers and banks, according to an annual comprehensive audit by the Online Trust Alliance (OTA).

• News: Forrester: CIOs need change IT function to improve customer experience

  CIOs need to make a number of changes to the IT function in order to deliver better customer experience for the enterprise, claims Forrester's CIO analyst Nigel Fenwick.

• News: Samsung's Galaxy Ace 3 underscores LTE's burgeoning move to simpler phones

  Though Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Ace 3 is a fairly basic smartphone, it nevertheless includes LTE, highlighting how the technology is making its way to simpler and cheaper devices.

• News: Eight is enough! IT's biggest frenemies

  You probably have a good idea about who your enemies are. But what about your frenemies?

• News: Debate rages over revelation of NSA spying secrets

  Debate continues to rage today over the bombshell revelations that the National Security Agency collects intelligence on individuals via telecommunications and social-networking sites. The uproar has the U.S. government and private companies admitting to some aspects of the surveillance, while vehemently denying others. A former CIA agent working for Booz Allen Hamilton has revealed himself as the leaker.

• News: Apple hosts live webcast of WWDC keynote today at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. PT

  Apple will webcast the keynote of its developers conference live starting at 10 a.m. PT, but the webcast will be available only on the company's own hardware, or via an OS X-powered virtual machine.

• News: Why password-only authentication is passe

  The rapid growth of mobile devices that can access corporate networks and data, the expanding use of cloud-based IT services, and the increasing popularity of apps such as online banking mean that IT needs to pay closer attention to authentication.

• News: What China's supercomputing push means for the U.S.

  China isn't downloading software off the Web to build its systems, it has design teams writing its software, says Argonne's Peter Beckman, who heads the DOE's exascale initiative.

• News: Why the time is right for the 'Droidbook'

  Years ago, when Google launched its ChromeOS-powered Chromebooks, people wondered why they weren't powered by Android, its existing mobile OS. It's time to start asking those questions again.

• News: Former CIA assistant Edward Snowden outs himself as NSA whistleblower

  You've seen the inflammatory NSA slides, and now you can attach a name to the paperwork: His name is Edward Snowden, he has a 10-year history in government defense and intelligence gathering, and now, he tells The Guardian, he's leaked classified documents because he thinks current NSA surveillance techniques pose "an existential threat to democracy."

• News: Usability, not 'flat' design, key to Monday's iOS refresh

  Apple is expected to debut a revamped iOS on Monday, featuring a "flatter" design that, if not done properly, could be a step backward in usability, a pair of user interface (UI) experts said.

• News: Intelligence director Clapper slams media leaks, offers declassified PRISM explanation

  The Washington Post and Guardianlet a genie out of a bottle, and now the Obama administration's national security boss is making an effort to cram it back in.

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