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• 07 September 2011

• News: Lawson Software buys Approva for governance tech

  Lawson Software and its parent company Infor are adding governance capabilities to their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with the acquisition of Approva, announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal, which closed Sept. 1, were not disclosed.

• News: Cloud computing and governance in the digital age

  During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panel was made up the former US federal government chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Burberry chief executive officer, Angela Ahrendts. The four leaders discussed various issues during the course of the wide ranging conversation, including best practice for Cloud computing by governments and the importance of human rights.

• News: Intuit Announces QuickBooks 2012, Salesforce Add-on

  QuickBooks 2012, the latest edition of Intuit's popular small-business accounting software, will be available for downloads starting September 26, with boxed copies in retail and Web outlets set to go on sale on October 9, Intuit announced Tuesday.

• News: Intuit unveils QuickBooks update with focus on time-savers

  When the latest version QuickBooks for the Mac arrives on retail shelves later this month, some users may look to see how this release stacks up to its Windows counterpart. That would be a mistake, says Pranay Kapadia, group product manager of QuickBooks for Mac and Mobile.

• News: Google says China has renewed its content provider license

  The Chinese government has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, a company spokesman said on Wednesday, giving the company another year to operate its local website in the country.

• News: Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source software of the year

  Open source software continues the march toward world domination, but the bright open promise dims

• News: Ten years after 9/11, cyberattacks pose national threat, committee says

  Ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the nation faces a critical threat to its security from cyberattacks, a new report by a bipartisan think tank warns.

• News: Government prepares £2bn PSN framework

  The government's procurement arm, Buying Solutions, is looking for suppliers for up to £2 billion worth of services for the Public Services Network (PSN), the communications infrastructure for local councils and Whitehall departments.

• News: Only seven percent of UK IT services in the cloud, says survey

  Despite all the hype over cloud computing, a new survey has revealed that just seven percent of UK IT services or applications on average are in the cloud.

• News: Scottish children's organisation loses sensitive case files

  The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to secure sensitive information about the welfare of young people in two separate incidents, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

• News: Council blasts shared services in favour of localisation

  West Dunbartonshire Council has rejected a detailed shared services proposal in favour of localised, cordoned-off services, in a move countering the plans of other councils across the country to merge key back office functions.

• News: Thomson Reuters moves payroll and HR data to the cloud

  Thomson Reuters, the market data and news company, has moved its human resources and payroll data to a cloud computing environment.

• News: Report: First Hong Kong Apple Store to open on Sep 24

  The first Apple Store in Hong Kong might open on Sep 24, becoming the company's 100th store globally, according to a report by local Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao Daily.

• News: IT services market takes severe hit in Q2 2011

  The IT services market suffered a severe hit globally in the second quarter of 2011, with the value of new contract signings falling to its lowest level in more than eight years, according to Ovum.

• 06 September 2011

• News: After hacking claims, second firm pulls digital certificates

  Digital certificates issued by GlobalSign have come under scrutiny after a hacker's claim that he broke into the company's computer systems. If true, it would be the second such compromise in the past few weeks.

• News: SAP buying Right Hemisphere for 3-D visualization

  SAP is to buy 3-D visualization toolmaker Right Hemisphere in a bid to improve the user interfaces of its various lines of business software, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• News: Google to cooperate with Korean regulator over Android

  Google will address concerns the Korean Fair Trade Commission may have about its Android mobile platform, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday after reports emerged that South Korean government officials had raided Google offices there.

• News: Kenya gov't invites operators, vendors to partner in LTE

  The government of Kenya has invited the private sector to partner in Long Term Evolution deployment, a move that is likely to benefit smaller ISPs (Internet service providers) and further reduce connectivity costs.

• News: Oracle adds new installer, failover to Windows MySQL

  Oracle has updated the commercial edition of its MySQL database for Windows, adding a graphical installer and the ability to do failover clustering, the company announced Tuesday.

• News: Google+ causes stir with Suggested User list

  Google+ is trying to help users expand their Circles by offering them a new Suggested User list, but some some users are taking exception to what they're calling an elitist system.

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