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- 17 August 2011
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News: Baidu criticized for fraudulent keyword advertising
China's Baidu is facing criticism after a state-run television network ran reports alleging that the company fails to stop scammers from abusing its keyword advertising platform to promote fraudulent websites.
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News: BT Wholesale appoints new chief executive
BT Wholesale has appointed a new chief executive as Sally Davis steps down for personal reasons.
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News: Remains of the Day: Magically delicious
Apple retail stores may be in for an LTE surprise, the architects behind the Apple campus "spaceship" are revealed, and Starbucks is handing out apps with its frappes. The remainders for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 have been whipped and made to order.
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News: C++ upgrade gets unanimous approval
The ISO says that C++11 will support parallel algorithms and boast improved performance
- 16 August 2011
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News: Chrome improves anti-malware blocking score by 340%
Google's Chrome blocked four times more malicious sites and malware than a year ago, but Firefox 4 was much less effective at warning users of danger than Mozilla's browser last year, according to a report from NSS Labs.
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News: Twitter adds photo function to API
Twitter has added a native function to its API for attaching images to posts, designed to make it easier for third-party developers to include photos with their applications' messages, or "tweets."
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News: UK says Google needs further privacy improvements
Google was praised on Tuesday by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for strengthening its privacy policies but the agency said the company still needs to improve.
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News: Outsourced and fired, IT workers fight back
On the day they were fired early last year, about 40 IT employees at Molina Healthcare Inc. had been gathered in a conference room for what they were told would be a planning meeting. At the same time, laptop computers were being collected from the assembled workers' desks.
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News: NBN CIO: The IT leadership strategy of Australias new telco
NBN Co has a head start that would leave many telcos green with envy. Armed with $27 billion in government funding, and at least $9 billion from debt markets, the two-yearold National Broadband Network wholesaler has the resources and backing that could catapult it ahead many of its decadesold equivalents. That’s not to say the challenge before the organisation isn’t any less daunting; within the decade NBN Co is set to change broadband in Australia. The monopoly wholesaler is bound by carefully worded legislation to provide equal access to many of those it will compete with on a shiny fibre-to-the-home network, and satellite and wireless offshoots. Best of all, the company is starting with a clean slate.
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News: UK says Google needs further privacy improvements
Google was praised on Tuesday by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for strengthening its privacy policies but the agency said the company still needs to improve.
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News: Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time.
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News: London Fire Brigade seeks managed IT services
The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA), which runs the London Fire Brigade, is looking for a contractor to provide new control and mobilising IT systems.
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News: NASDAQ former executive jailed after using wifes web login for insider trading
Donald Johnson, a former executive at the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York, has been handed a three and a half year sentence after using his wife’s online brokerage account for insider trading.
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News: Cell phones stay on, but protesters disrupt SF subway
San Francisco's commuter railway left mobile phone services untouched during a closely watched protest Monday, but for many commuters that didn't matter because they were locked out of the railway system altogether.
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News: FCC looking into BART mobile phone shutdown
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into last week's shutdown of mobile phone services on a San Francisco commuter train line.
- 15 August 2011
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News: Amazon promises to improve redundancy after Dublin outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) learned a lot of lessons from the outage that affected its Dublin data center, and will now work to improve power redundancy, load balancing and the way it communicates when something goes wrong with its cloud, the company said in a summary of the incident.
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News: Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services
Amag Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., has almost eliminated its internal server network, and couldn't be happier about it. That's because the company, with about 240 employees, is now largely riding on cloud services.
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News: Preparing for the real costs of cloud computing
At a cloud computing conference in New York in June, a number of speakers pointed out that the cloud is moving past the hype stage and is beginning to deliver tangible benefits to organizations. These improvements include increased flexibility and agility.
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News: Google to Acquire Motorola for 'About $12.5 Billion'
The online giant has announced that it's going to acquire one of the biggest supporters of its mobile Android operating system.
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News: Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Google on Tuesday announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for a cool $12.5 billion in cash. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the acquisition should finally afford Google the sort of mobile-focused patent portfolio the search giant has longed for. According to Google, Motorola Mobility will continue to operate as a separate business.
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