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• 11 August 2011

• News: LinkedIn's privacy slip-up draws legal scrutiny

  LinkedIn might have broken European law by changing privacy settings for its members without proper disclosure, legal experts assert.

• News: CloudSwing allows you to assemble open-source cloud stacks

  Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of CloudSwing, an upcoming offering from OpenLogic that builds on its core business of providing technical support for open-source software.

• News: Second quarter sees strong demand for IT staff: survey

  Demand for permanent IT staff was strong during the second quarter of the year, from April to June, and continues to be high into the third quarter, says Tom Derbyshire, manager of recruitment firm Robert Walters' IT division in Auckland.

• News: Hong Kong Exchange website might be hacked

  The Hong Kong Stock Exchange suspended trading in several shares on Wednesday following a glitch in its online news service that might be caused by hacking, said the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) chief executive Charles Li.

• News: Sprint to launch cloud services this fall

  Sprint will offer cloud services to all sizes of businesses in the fourth quarter, a Sprint executive said on Wednesday.

• 10 August 2011

• News: Walmart shuttering its digital music store on August 29

  The battle for the digital music arena has lost one of its earliest players, as Walmart announced Tuesday that after almost eight years in the business, the Walmart.com Music Downloads store will shut its virtual doors on August 29.

• News: Customer accuses Infor of betrayal in software lawsuit

  An Infor customer is alleging the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor betrayed a long-standing trust between the companies in order to sell it software that utterly failed to perform as promised.

• News: Google Apps Catapult BI-LO Supermarkets to the Cloud

  A good indicator that you're in need of a new email system is when your entire executive team offers to be part of a pilot group for a new platform.

• News: Amazon Preorders for Battlefield 3 Up Against Battlefield 2

  Amazon UK reports that the array of sequels due out later this year have all been preordered significantly more than their predecessors.

• News: Amazon launches free Kindle Cloud Reader app for Web browsers

  Amazon introduced the free Kindle Cloud Reader application, which allows users to access Kindle books instantly from a Web browser without needing to download the book first.

• News: Lessons from Amazon Cloud Lightning Strike Outage

  A lightning strike in Dublin took out a power transformer. In and of itself, that isn't all that unusual or noteworthy, but this particular lightning strike also impacted the backup power systems at Amazon's cloud data center, knocking the service offline. Looking back, there are some lessons to be learned both for Amazon, and for businesses that rely on cloud services.

• News: When a cloud service vanishes: How to protect your data

  More and more, we rely on Web services as a matter of course. The key word is rely: We assume that the data we upload to, say, a photo-hosting account or blog service today will still be there tomorrow. In large part, that's because we assume the services themselves will still be there tomorrow.

• News: China hit by 480,000 Trojan horse attacks in 2010

  China said it saw close to 480,000 Trojan horse attacks in 2010, with almost half originating from outside the country, according to a government security agency.

• News: Wall Street: Software more valuable than oil

  The tech industry's answer to this week's stock market roller coaster was delivered on Tuesday by Apple Inc, which briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S.

• News: Cyber attacks drive demand for network security staff

  The increase in cyber attacks has driven a growth in demand for network security staff, according to a report into the information security jobs market.

• News: Lloyds Bank slashes 1,300 jobs, will not rule out IT cuts in the future

  Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed that IT jobs will not be affected in the 1,300 cuts it announced today, but declined to rule out technology personnel being affected in the future.

• News: Booz Allen CEO downplays effect of Anonymous hack

  A July cyberattack on Booz Allen Hamilton will not materially harm the company's bottom line, its CEO said Tuesday.

• News: Remains of the Day: Reduce, reuse, recycle

  Apple sure loves the three Rs. One prominent Apple Store's glass panels are being reduced, a rival company's employees are being reused, and Macs, monitors, and iOS devices can now be recycled. But don't forget the most important R: The remainders for Tuesday, August 9, 2011.

• 09 August 2011

• News: Verizon makes its satellite dishes available as standard service

  Verizon is turning its 19 years of responding to hurricanes and disasters with ground-based mobile satellite technology into a standard service for businesses and governments.

• News: Team Bondi's Assets and IP Sold Off

  Troubled Sydney studio Team Bondi has reportedly sold off its video game IP and other remaining assets, while staff have been offered alternative employment or severance pay.

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