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• 15 December 2011

• News: Facebook unfriends coal, friends Greenpeace in clean energy campaign

  Greenpeace International has ended a long-running campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for its data centers, after Facebook agreed to promote clean and renewable energy, the two said Thursday.

• News: Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software

  Salesforce.com announced Thursday it will acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software market.

• News: 30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011

  2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs.

• News: Feds launch 'Healthy App Challenge'

  The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has partnered with the Surgeon General to launch the Healthy App Challenge, which invites developers to submit health, wellness, and fitness apps.

• News: Putting a Lock on Password Management

  A cancer diagnostics firm is using a single sign-on service to secure a growing pool of SaaS subscriptions.

• News: Zambian government cracks down on counterfeit handsets

  As Chinese-made counterfeit mobile handsets continue flooding the African market, the Zambian government has become the first country in the region moving to close all outlets selling the phones around the country.

• News: Zoho guns for Salesforce.com with major upgrade to its SaaS CRM software

  Zoho unveiled a significant upgrade to its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software on Thursday with new features including an overhauled user interface and an integration with LinkedIn.

• News: Enomaly buy to fuel new Virtustream exchange

  Virtustream's acquisition of Enomaly could help enterprises turn a drawback of private clouds--excess capacity--into a profit center.

• News: Cloud UI Design Mistakes to Avoid

  I've written for years that it is impossible to make a product too easy to use. But the industry has proved me wrong, by making products that are so focused on easy that they encourage sloppy, unmaintainable system configurations. In the pursuit of something easy enough for mortals to use (and sales reps to demo), some cloud vendors are paving the way for a big mess a few months after deployment.

• News: 3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches

  Tablets are a tricky proposition for many IT departments since they have many of the content creation capabilities of laptops but lack mature security software.

• News: BAE Systems cuts licensing and IT maintenance costs

  BAE Systems' Military Air and Information (MAI) division has signed a contract with business application software provider Infor to support its business transformation programme.

• News: Keep Track of Your Employees with an Online In/Out Board

  Does your office still use one of those analog "in-out boards" to keep track of everyone's location status? Hey, boss: the 19th century called, and they want their mortar and pestle back!

• News: Squeeze WAN providers now for a better cloud later

  Businesses should be formulating cloud strategies now that get the most out of their network providers to better support whatever cloud services they wind up buying, according to a prominent cloud-economics expert.

• News: IBM buys Emptoris for contract managment, supply software

  IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out its growing catalog of business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce technologies, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter of next year, were not provided.

• News: NHS IT programme software 'three times market price'

  NHS trusts are paying three times the market price for systems under the failed National Programme for IT (NPfIT), according to an MP on the Public Accounts Committee.

• News: Logica takes axe to 1,300 jobs

  IT services outsourcer Logica is axing 1,300 jobs in the wake of a profits warning, and as the Eurozone crisis deepens.

• News: Ofsted slams ICT teaching in schools

  An Ofsted report has found that achievement in ICT is "inadequate" in almost a fifth of secondary schools, although standards in primary schools are much better.

• News: Amazon launches Web services from Brazil

  Amazon Web Services has launched services for South American customers from data centers in Brazil, the company said Wednesday.

• News: Paychecks, .xxx, and domain name woes highlight House hearing

  ICANN's plans to roll out a slew of new top-level domain names next year, including the .xxx domain, were the subject of House subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

• News: Feds again say LightSquared interferes with GPS

  A second round of tests on LightSquared's proposed land-based mobile data network again showed interference with a majority of GPS devices, except for cellphones, two U.S. federal departments said Wednesday.

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