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• 06 September 2011

• News: Why Is Windows Phone 7 Winning Over Indie App Developers?

  While many app developers have merely reworked their Android or iOS apps to function on Windows Phone 7, a handful of independent app makers are developing exclusively in Microsoft's mobile operating system. Why are these bootstrapping coders throwing all of their (spare) time behind the insurgent OS, and not Android or iOS?

• News: InfoWorld interview: Ruby creator sets sights on mobile

  Yukihiro Matsumoto details the past, present, and future of the popular programming language, calling mobile 'the way to go'

• News: Apple plans to open Hong Kong store later this quarter

  Apple plans to open its first retail store in Hong Kong later this quarter, according to a company spokeswoman.

• News: Nearly half of FTSE 250 boards still have no women

  Despite quota targets set by Lord Davies earlier this year to increase the number of women on boards, nearly half of the FTSE 250 companies still have all-male boards, according to a progress report.

• 05 September 2011

• News: GCHQ Unit Launches Information Security Qualification

  Information assurance arm's qualification applies to the public sector

• News: Customer Leaves Apple Store with Confidential Data

  Time Machine backup of Apple Store's internal file server taken

• News: Alleged LulzSec Hacker 'Kayla' Arrested By UK Police

  Body blow for the 'DDoS and tell' hacktivists?

• News: IT services market slumps 40% in Q2

  The gathering economic gloom has hit IT service companies hard, according to a report from Ovum. New global analysis from the analyst group has highlighted a 40 percent year-on-year decline in new service contract signings in the second quarter of 2011.

• News: Free security tool detects banking malware

  A Finnish penetration testing company has released a free tool it says can detect all variants of five major families of malicious software that steal online banking credentials.

• News: India to start filtering telemarketers later this month

  India's telecom regulator said on Monday that new legislation to filter telemarketers will come into force finally on Sept. 27, after a number of postponements.

• News: Turkish hackers strike websites with DNS hack

  A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including Microsoft, UPS and Vodafone to a different web pages controlled by the hackers.

• 04 September 2011

• News: CIA, Mossad, MI6 targeted by Iranian DigiNotar-hackers

  After breaching the Dutch CA (Certification Authority) DigiNotar, Iranian hackers managed to sign forged certificates for the domains of spy agencies CIA, Mossad and MI6. Leading certification authorities like VeriSign and Thawte were also targeted, as were Iranian dissident sites.

• News: British Police Nab Men Believed Linked to HBGary Breach

  HBGary Federal was just one of many low-profile security contractors peddling its wares to clients with secrets to protect -- until earlier this year when the U.S. firm drew the attention of hackers.

• News: Window shopping goes high tech with gesture recognition

  German researchers have given a new meaning to window shopping. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute showed a prototype that lets shoppers learn more about what's in a store display window when the store is closed.

• News: ACAS publishes social media usage guide

  Employment relations body ACAS has published an employers' guide on the use of social networks in the workplace, to help them avoid disputes.

• 03 September 2011

• News: Philips demos fatigue-fighting monitor tech

  Philips has announced a new tool in the fight against office fatigue. Rather than prescribing shorter working days or more frequent breaks, Philips believes technology itself can be used to improve time spent at our desks staring at our screens. Ergo Sensors built into office monitors will check users' posture

• News: Lufthansa opens major data centre in Hertfordshire

  Lufthansa Systems, an IT services company that is part of the German airline group, has opened a major data centre in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, to serve the travel industry.

• News: GCHQ unit launches information security qualification

  A unit of spy centre GCHQ is launching an information assurance certification scheme for the public sector, through the BCS.

• 02 September 2011

• News: Software testing back of queue for govt agencies

  If a project runs over time and over budget, then commitment to software testing is the first thing to go by the board. That's according to the chief executive of one vendor who doesn't want to be named, as he deals largely with government departments.

• News: Delphi, C++ to goose desktop apps

  In an attempt to enliven staid business applications, development tools vendor Embarcadero has updated its RAD Studio IDE (integrated developer environment) for Delphi and C++ applications, the company announced Friday.

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