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• 26 September 2011

• News: IT gets energized with budget upticks

  This past summer, many members of the IT staff at Daymon Worldwide took a well-deserved break. For two years, there had been no time off, as IT was fully engaged with a master data management initiative, with the goal of creating a definitive source of operational data that provides all employees with accurate information in real time.

• News: Juggling IT's social media roles

  When a late arrival thought he'd catch up on the buzz at a recent conference of CIOs, he logged in to Twitter. What he found -- or rather, didn't find -- amazed him.

• News: Getting IT reorgs right

  For a lot of enterprises, frequent IT reorganizations are a fact of life. Revamping hardware, applications, processes and staff has become a hallmark of the technology function at some organizations.

• News: 9 hot IT skills for 2012

  Slowly but surely, many U.S. companies are loosening their viselike grips on IT hiring and looking to add new staffers to bolster business growth in the year ahead.

• News: How to Conduct a Job Search: What You Need to Know Today

  When IT Director Henry Hirschel started his job search in June 2011, his first move wasn't to hit a job board looking for ads for IT leadership positions. His first step was to connect with his network.

• News: Healthcare CIOs Tell Job Seekers to Keep Skills Sharp

  IT professionals seeking jobs in healthcare should know that CIOs in that field look for applicants with a history of upgrading their tech and management skills. Insider (registration required)

• News: Zynga's Profits Down by 95%

  Zynga's last financial quarter showed that its year on year profits had showed a sharp decline of approximately 95%.

• News: Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives

  Toshiba today announced a new cloud service interface on its Canvio 3.0 line of external portable hard drives, which automatically discovers files and recommends which should be backed up to the cloud.

• News: Cisco, Microsoft cooperation on virtual switching gives customers new option

  Cisco support will make Microsoft's Hyper-V environment more attractive to corporate customers, but it remains to be seen whether that's enough for Hyper-V to give VMware's ESXi a run for its money.

• News: IBM's Watson to Diagnose Patients

  Healthcare applications using the 'evidence-based medicine' are being jointly developed for Jeopardy-playing supercomputer Watson by IBM and health care provider WellPoint

• News: Canon, Oracle to develop document processing technology

  Canon will work with Oracle to integrate its business copiers and printers with the software giant's database and server products.

• 24 September 2011

• News: Google Wallet rollout going "kind of slow," Google rep says

  Google Wallet has run into technical glitches during its rollout, although the extent of the problems is not clear.

• News: Oracle User Group says budgets are static

  The number of end users who saw an increase in their Oracle budgets more than doubled this year, according to a survey from Fujitsu and the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG).

• News: Fast Five: This week in IT

  Your wrap of the top Australian ICT stories this week.

• News: NASA is 'embarrassing,' Neil Armstrong tells Senate

  The end of the Shuttle programme has left the US in danger of squandering decades of space achievement, former astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan have told the US Senate Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

• 23 September 2011

• News: Wall Street Beat: Software earnings look good

  The spectacle of Hewlett-Packard replacing CEO Leo Apotheker, who had been in the job just a year, with former eBay chief Meg Whitman this week all but obscured solid earnings reports from a range of enterprise software vendors including Oracle, Tibco and Red Hat.

• News: Sierra Leone banks to introduce electronic payment system

  All 13 commercial banks in Sierra Leone have agreed to introduce the electronic interbank payment system (Switch) by October 2012 as a part of the African Development Bank-funded West African Monetary Zone Payments System Development Project.

• News: Kenya finds it tough attracting BPO business

  Kenya's efforts to compete with India, Mauritius and South Africa as a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) destination have hit a snag, with many companies closing or scaling down operations.

• News: Italy 4G frequency auction tops €3.7 billion

  Italy's auction of six blocks of 800MHz frequencies for 4G mobile phone services netted €2.962 billion (US$4 billion) Thursday, taking the total of provisional offers for mobile phone frequency licenses to more than €3.7 billion.

• News: Capita bags police HR specialists Cedar

  Capita has continued its acquisition spree by snapping up Cedar HR Softwarefor £15 million, following Monday's £40 million takeover of Vertex's private sector operations.

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