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• 08 August 2011

• News: Career Watch: Help needed for help desks

  Help Wanted on the Help Desk

• News: Lightning strike in Dublin downs Amazon, Microsoft clouds

  A lightening strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power failure in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, causing the companies' cloud services to go offline.

• News: India wants special monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook

  India's communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan attacks.

• News: 4 reasons Windows Phone 7 will beat iPhone and Android

  Microsoft has a relatively long history with mobile operating systems, stretching back to the mid-nineties and Windows CE. Developed originally for "embedded systems," Windows CE quickly found its way into PDAs and eventually phones, and while consumers never warmed to the platform, it did achieve a level of success in the enterprise.

• News: Healthcare IT Consumers Fear Data Loss From EHR Systems

  Nearly 80% of U.S. consumers say that they're wary of electronic health records because they fear that their personal information might be stolen or lost.

• News: Subway Picks Cloud Software for Usability

  Subway, a major fast-food operation, could have hosted new financial management software at its own data centers, but instead selected cloud-based software because of its user-friendly interface.

• News: Black Hat: Apple does well but Microsoft does better with enterprise security

  While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, researchers at Black Hat say. While not recommended for corporate use unless it’s in islands within larger networks, the OSX operating system has made strides, says Alex Stamos, who lead a team of researchers from iSec Partners that researched the OSX and Windows 7 operating systems.

• 07 August 2011

• News: AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites

  The war between law enforcement and the Anonymous hacking collective continued this weekend as hackers dumped a 10 gigabyte database that included private e-mails and information sent by confidential informants. Hackers say they stole information during an attack on more than 70 small-town law enforcement agencies.

• News: WA Health advancing Health Identifiers

  WA Health is to purchase a major chunk of the underlying software and services to facilitate the delivery of the national Health Identifiers initiative being managed by the National e-Health Transition Authority (NeHTA).

• News: Police planning major switchover to cloud computing

  Police across the UK are considering a major move to cloud computing, dumping on-premise IT in an aggressive bid to cut costs, ComputerworldUK.com can reveal.

• 06 August 2011

• News: Nokia Siemens Networks cuts 1,500 jobs

  Nokia Siemens Networks has announced it is cutting up to 1,500 jobs from its GSM and WiMAX technology divisions.

• 05 August 2011

• News: Contest shines light on broadband providers' tactics

  The FCC announces award winners in its competition to design tools to measure broadband network management.

• News: NASA launches Juno on 5-year journey to Jupiter

  NASA Friday launched an unmanned probe to Jupiter in a search to find out what is underneath the planet's swirling cover of clouds.

• News: Twitter to open source streaming data analyzer

  Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for analyzing live large-scale data streams, called Storm.

• News: Has your company been infiltrated by the Shady Rat hack?

  When McAfee released its Operation Shady Rat hacking report earlier this week, it didn't name all of the organizations it thought could have been hacked as part of a large, five-year ongoing campaign. Yours might be one of them.

• News: SAP will issue patch for NetWeaver vulnerability

  A reportedly serious security bug affecting the J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition) engine in SAP's NetWeaver middleware will be patched soon, SAP said Friday.

• News: As targeted e-mail attacks proliferate, companies wince

  The strange e-mails arrived in executives' inboxes around the same time that the Australian oil company was negotiating a deal with a Chinese energy company.

• News: China's top paper dismisses McAfee hacking report

  The official newspaper of China's ruling communist party dismissed security vendor McAfee's report that a state sponsored group was behind the massive cyberattack that penetrated 72 companies and organizations, calling the claims groundless.

• News: China's IT outsourcing firms aim to move up the value chain

  Microsoft, IBM and other multinational companies have long been customers for VanceInfo, one of China's largest IT outsourcing firms. With more than 11,000 employees, VanceInfo leverages China's low-cost work force to develop products and enterprise software for many of its clients.

• News: Lloyds Banking Group lines up huge HBOS system switch

  Lloyds Banking Group is testing systems ahead of a major migration of Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) accounts onto its own platforms.

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