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• 22 July 2011

• News: Anonymous, LulzSec vow to hack on

  In a defiant statement addressed largely at FBI director Steve Chabinsky, members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups vowed to continue with their hacking campaigns and dared law enforcement to try and stop them.

• 21 July 2011

• News: Change the labels, shift perspectives of security

  When hired into an organization, each person has a defined responsibility, set of skills and sphere of influence. In essence, each individual is an expert contributing to the success of the organization.

• News: Gala Coral bets on 10 year tech deal with Playtech

  Gala Coral, the betting and gaming group, has signed a 10-year systems deal with supplier Playtech.

• News: NASA bids farewell to shuttle era with Atlantis landing

  As NASA's space shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time early today, the 30-year space shuttle program came to a bittersweet end.

• News: Banks use retail tech tricks to boost revenues, survey finds

  Many major European banks employ techniques used by successful retailers to increase revenues and cross-sell products, an Accenture and UniCredit survey has found.

• News: Outsourcing slumps in the second quarter

  Outsourcing declined worldwide by 18 percent to US$16.4 billion in the second quarter because of weak demand in the Americas and an overall drop in the number of large contracts awarded, sourcing data and advisory firm TPI said on Wednesday.

• News: Acer to buy US cloud technology provider iGware

  Acer plans to acquire iGware, a US cloud technology company, for US$320 million, as part of a plan to allow users to more easily share content across the PC maker's products.

• News: Feds release map of data centre closings

  While Congress debates the debt ceiling and the federal budget, the White House is accelerating its plans to close data centres as a means to trim billions of dollars from its IT budget

• News: News International network administrators avert new hacking attempt

  Network administrators at News International last night fought off a fresh attempt to hack the Sunday Times website, according to sources.

• News: ConocoPhillips drills for IT plan ahead of major business split

  ConocoPhillips has said it is carefully weighing up its IT options after announcing a dramatic move to demerge the oil company into two parts.

• News: Wolfram makes data interactive

  Wolfram Research, the maker of the popular Mathematica computational software, has released a new platform for visualizing and interacting with complex data sets, the company announced Thursday.

• 20 July 2011

• News: Report: Google considers InterDigital buy

  InterDigital on Tuesday said it was considering selling the company, and now the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, said Google is interested in scooping up the mobile chip technology developer.

• News: US gov't to push e-recycling, energy-efficient electronics

  The U.S. government will buy energy efficient electronics and will promote e-recycling under a new strategy.

• News: Big tech names Dell, Torvalds among Google+ early adopters

  Part of the buzz this week about Google+ is that Google is reportedly working to lure celebrities such as Lady Gaga to its new social network service with verified accounts. Not sure if tech big shots beyond Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg count as celebrities, but the list of the technology industry’s biggest names using Google+ is on the rise.

• News: Government to name and shame late payers online

  The government has vowed to name online any large businesses that fail to pay their subcontractors in a timely manner.

• News: Top general says Defense Department IT in 'Stone Age'

  U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was sharply critical of the Defense Department's IT systems and sees much room for improvement.

• News: 'Voice of the customer' programs combine feedback

  About 18 months ago, Charming Shoppes launched a customer insights project to "deliver actionable customer and market research and analysis to the business," according to Jeffrey H. Liss, who headed up the initiative. Liss is now senior vice president of corporate strategy at the plus-size women's clothing retailer.

• News: Microsoft ratchets up pressure on Rustock operators

  The company has put a $250,000 bounty up for grabs, hoping to get leads as to the whereabouts of the botnet operators behind Rustock.

• News: Oracle makes Fusion Applications 'available'

  Oracle has quietly made its Fusion Applications generally available, albeit with a caveat, but it seems that any serious fanfare over the long-awaited software may be reserved until the company's annual OpenWorld conference in October.

• News: Ugandan legislator calls for Huawei deal investigation

  The top opposition leader in Uganda's Parliament has called for an investigation of the US$74 million IT deal between Huawei Technologies of China and the country's national broadcaster.

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