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• 24 January 2012

• News: Joomla gets search, database reinforcements

  The newly released edition of the Joomla open source content management system now comes with a new search engine, and can use Microsoft SQL Server or PostGreSQL, in addition to MySQL.

• News: Desktop PC Killers: Past, Present, and Future

  The desktop PC is dead; the era of the gleaming beige tower is over. The age of smartphones, laptops, and tablets is here--or so say numerous pundits and critics.

• News: Cloud Industry Forum blames FUD for security concerns

  Security is still the top concern for organisations looking to migrate to a cloud service model, with privacy following close behind, according to the latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum.

• News: SITA hopes to test NFC at airports this summer

  SITA has demonstrated a proof-of-concept that shows how smartphones equipped with NFC (Near Field Communications) can be used by passengers to check in and board airplanes. It now hopes to test the technology this summer, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

• News: Supreme Court GPS ruling called a win for privacy

  Calling it a victory for privacy rights, civil rights advocates hailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant before they can attach a GPS tracking device to a vehicle.

• News: Welfare to Work programme hit by IT delays

  The government's control over its Work Programme, a 'welfare to work' scheme, is being hit by IT rollout delays.

• News: Asda in £500m investment for high tech depots and stores

  Asda is set to create 5,000 jobs and invest £500 million this year, as part of a programme to open stores and overhaul distribution centres with IT-driven 'cross docking' capabilities.

• News: Government appoints new CIO

  Andy Nelson, head of IT at the Ministry of Justice, is set to become the government's chief information officer.

• News: Juror jailed after researching case on internet

  Dr Theodora Dallas, a 34-year old juror who researched a defendant on the internet and shared the information with fellow jurors, has been jailed for six months for contempt of court.

• News: DWP reappoints HP on desktop deal for £316m

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has reappointed HP on a £316 million hardware framework deal, known as Desktop 21.

• News: Remains of the Day: A picture is worth $100 million

  Apple wants to stop Kodak from bankrolling its recovery on patents that it may not own; one company says people are downloading those new iPad textbooks like they're going out of style; and blazing fast Wi-Fi may be coming to a Mac near you sometime this year. The remainders for Monday, January 23, 2012 are wireless and fancy free.

• News: Senator questions ethics of alleged LightSquared lobbying

  U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Monday that the owner of LightSquared and a possible representative of the company may have broken ethics rules when they contacted his office about winning approval for LightSquared's planned mobile broadband network.

• News: The 17 habits of highly-effective cloud providers

  Developers of New Zealand's code of practice for cloud computing have suggested a "multi-tiered" approach, whereby it will be compulsory to make disclosures on some factors of cloud-computing operations, such as security and privacy controls, while information on other factors can be voluntarily supplied to gain a higher grade of compliance.

• 23 January 2012

• News: Senator questions ethics of alleged LightSquared lobbying

  U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Monday that the owner of LightSquared and a possible representative of the company may have broken ethics rules when they contacted his office about winning approval for LightSquared's planned mobile broadband network.

• News: Sen. Grassley's Twitter account hacked

  Twitter and federal law enforcement are investigating the hacking of a U.S. Senator's Twitter account Monday afternoon.

• News: Social networking engineers team to make Google searches less 'evil'

  Software engineers from major social networking companies have apparently grown tired of Google's relentless drive to push its own Google+ social network at the expense of other sites.

• News: Net Optics acquires nMetric, targets network intelligence

  In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.

• News: Researcher traces 'Gameover' malware to maker of Zeus

  The 'Gameover' malware that the FBI warned about earlier this month is a preview of the next version of the even-more-notorious Zeus money-stealing Trojan, a security researcher said today.

• News: Obama to do YouTube, Google+ Hangout interview

  Continuing his longstanding use of social networks, President Barack Obama is set to do an interview in a Google+ Hangout on Jan. 30.

• News: 'Don't Be Evil' bookmarklet tweaks Google search results to overcome Google Plus favoritism

  Google's recent move to emphasize results from its own Google+ social networking service is getting some new pushback--in the form of a Don't Be Evil bookmarklet that reorganizes the site's search results to place more emphasis on other social networks.

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