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• 23 September 2011

• News: 'Lurid' malware hits Russia, CIS countries

  The latest espionage-related hacking campaign detailed by security vendor Trend Micro is most notable for the country it does not implicate: China.

• News: Nokia appoints new CTO

  Nokia has announced that Henry Tirri (pictured) will take up the role of chief technology officer (CTO), after his predecessor Richard Green took a ‘leave of absence’ in June.

• News: Intellect's director general leaves for Europe

  Intellect's director general is leaving his post to take the reins of the pan-European body for the technology industry.

• News: Mozilla Answers Biz Users with Slower Firefox Schedule

  Even as Firefox developers were mulling over the idea of speeding up the browser's rapid, six-week release cycle even further recently, a separate Mozilla working group was putting together a proposal to slow down that upgrade pace for enterprise users.

• 22 September 2011

• News: Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept

  Facebook has done an extreme makeover of its user profiles, redesigning the interface so that it's easy to surface not only recent updates but also years-old information, the company announced at its F8 developer conference on Thursday.

• News: New Oracle database appliance aims at small, mid-size firms

  Oracle's new Database Appliance product, unveiled on Wednesday, should appeal to small and mid-size businesses that run both transactional and analytic applications, analysts said.

• News: MasterCard, Airtel mobile plan flies in face of cybercrime

  Despite an upsurge in cybercrime targeting the financial sector in Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, Airtel Africa and MasterCard have partnered to launch the region's first virtual card linked to a mobile wallet.

• News: HP board ousts Apotheker, Whitman in as CEO

  Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker was ousted from his position on Thursday and replaced by HP director and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, less than a year after he took the job.

• News: Q&A: 'IPad deconstructed' forum makes case for federal research

  In an effort by organizers to spark the interest of lawmakers, a closed-door U.S. Capitol forum on the future of federal research was given a provocative title: 'Deconstructing the iPad: How Federally Supported Research Leads to Game-Changing Innovation.'

• News: SIEM: Dead or alive?

  Security practitioners defend the value of SIEM after elQnetworks declares the technology dead.

• News: FCC moves toward texting, video for emergency calls

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday took the first step toward updating the nation's 911 emergency dialing system to receive text messages, pictures and videos, in addition to voice calls.

• News: Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept

  Facebook has done an extreme makeover of its user profiles, redesigning the interface so that it's easy to surface not only recent updates but also years-old information, the company announced at its F8 developer conference on Thursday.

• News: OpenStack gets a new GUI

  The developers behind OpenStack have updated their open source cloud software package with a new graphical user interface and a unified authentication management system, the project's organizers announced Thursday.

• News: FTC targets mortgage and debt relief websites

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a court to shut down websites that falsely suggested they were federal consumer assistance agencies or affiliated with government agencies focused on mortgage or debt relief, the agency said Thursday.

• News: Government to scrap NPfIT NHS IT programme today

  The government will formally announce the scrapping of the National programme for IT in the NHS, this morning, dubbing it the biggest IT disaster of the last Labour administration.

• News: Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment

  Teradata is adding an appliance option for its Aster analytic database, giving it another potential weapon against rivals such as Oracle's Exadata, EMC's Greenplum and SAP's HANA.

• News: East of England councils tender for multi-million pound HR deal

  A group of local authorities are tendering for a £4 million contract to deploy "e-recruitment and talent management systems". The work however could be worth up to £40 million if spread across the wider public sector.

• 21 September 2011

• News: Group urges U.S. to require warrants for location-based tracking

  Law enforcement officials should be required to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before using GPS or other electronic location tracking to follow individuals, a bi-partisan group said in a report released today.

• News: Salesforce.com acquires help desk service firm Assistly

  Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately US$50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• News: Senators question if Google has biased search results

  Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt denied that his company is manipulating search results during a hearing Wednesday.

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