Latest Enterprise News

• 21 May 2013

• News: Atlassian gives Jira a makeover

  Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified workflow.

• News: House bill would mandate guns with .007-style smart tech

  Inspired by the latest James Bond movie, U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include "personalization technology" in their weapons.

• 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: AGL satisfied with Microsoft Office 365 move

  Australian energy retailer, AGL Energy, said it has realised cost-savings, improved cost control, and simplified email support through its move to Microsoft's subscription-based Office 365 service, a transition which was completed in April 2012.

• 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: Social enterprise can boost productivity by up to 25 per cent: NewsGator

  Adopting a social corporate strategy can lead to tangible productivity time savings, according to NewsGator Asia Pacific business development director, Cuneyt Uysal.

• 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.

• News: Sanity deploys Oki printers

  Printer manufacturer, Oki Data, has been selected to deploy its B431dn networked mono printers at 120 Sanity Entertainment retail locations in Australia.

• News: Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use

  Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower the cost of implementing its cloud services among government organizations and agencies in the U.S.

• News: EU investigation could affect business from China's 4G deployment

  The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment imports. But the move could end up hurting the chances of Western vendors intent on supplying technology to China's upcoming 4G services launch, according to analysts.

• News: CIOs' relationship with marketing is weak: survey

  With sales and marketing departments having more control over the technology agenda in many organisations, CIOs need to think about whether they are putting in enough time and effort in their relationship with the chief marketing officer (CMO) as they would with finance and other business chiefs.

• 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: Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds

  Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

• News: Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train

  Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC

• 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: Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

  Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee.

• 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: Govt asks industry for help to stem security breaches

  IT security firms have been asked to put themselves up for membership of a special-purpose panel to provide security services across all of government.

• News: Cloud computing can slash IT expenses by half, DataOne executive says

  In today's competitive business landscape, CEOs and business owners are continually seeking ways to do more with less.

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