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• 23 May 2012

• News: TfL: NFC contactless payments will not be ready before Olympic Games

  Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it will not have completed a full roll-out of its near field communication (NFC) contactless payment system ahead of the London Olympic Games this summer.

• News: Googles Moog Doodle: Users Make Sweet Music

  The Web is making sweet music with Google’s latest doodle, a Web-based playable Moog synthesizer. The new doodle is in honor of Robert Moog, a music pioneer responsible for the modern electronic synthesizer. Moog, who died in 2005, was born May 23, 1934, and would have turned 78 this year. Moog’s creation influenced the work of countless recording artists including the Beatles, Doors, and Stevie Wonder.

• News: Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue

  Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• News: Beyond Templates: Building a Better Business Website

  This probably seems obvious, but it's worth stating: These days, it's crucial to have a website for your business. From brochure-based sites that provide your contact details and store hours to full-fledged ecommerce carts and customer self-service, your website is important--it tells customers what to expect from you. This article offers several tips for building a better business website that will engage existing customers and help you find new ones.

• News: Pwnium hacking contest winners exploited 16 Chrome zero-days

  Google yesterday revealed that the two researchers who cracked Chrome in March at the company's inaugural "Pwnium" hacking contest used a total of 16 zero-day vulnerabilities to win $60,000 each.

• News: 7 Tech IPOs That Investors 'Unfriended'

  For the past week, it has been impossible to search for the word "IPO" in Google and not be inundated with stories on the Facebook's debut on the stock market. However, over the course of the week, there has been a visible shift in the tone of the stories. From wondering whether Facebook's IPO would open the floodgates for other social media companies, analysts are now left wondering why the Facebook IPO flopped and failed to provide the so called post-listing "pop."

• News: President Obama joins famous faces in Webby Awards tribute to Steve Jobs (video)

  President Obama was among the well-known figures that paid tribute to Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs at the 16th annual Webby Awards show on Monday.

• News: Awesome Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Robert Moog with Playable Synthesizer

  Google honors the legacy of Robert Moog Wednesday, the father of the modern electronic synthesizer, with what quite possibly is its most elaborate doodle yet -- a working Moog synthesizer. Wednesday marks the late music pioneer's 78th birthday. You can play Google's virtual Moog synthesizer now in countries where it is already May 23.

• News: BT accused of making broadband monopoly

  BT may have to split into two companies after being warned it is making a monopoly out of superfast broadband.

• News: Google warns users infected with DNSChanger as Web outage nears

  Google on Tuesday hauled out a tool it last used nearly a year ago to warn users infected with the "DNSChanger" malware.

• News: Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints

  Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Microsoft handles requests for blurring of images, the company said on Tuesday.

• News: SAP president claims €1bn worth of in-memory business in the pipeline

  SAP has €1 billion (£808 million) worth of business in the pipeline for its in-memory HANA product, according to SAP's president of sales Robert Enslin.

• News: HMRC in talks with SAP to consolidate infrastructure into HANA

  SAP is in talks with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to implement HANA, an in-memory technology that allows enterprises to analyse huge volumes of data in real time.

• News: Bloomberg acquires PolarLake to bolster data management capabilities

  Bloomberg has revealed today that it has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake in a bid to bolster a newly launched enterprise data management (EDM) service.

• News: Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.

• News: Facebook to settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

  Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertising feature, according to a court document filed Tuesday.

• 22 May 2012

• News: Facebook stock slumps for third day

  In its third day of trading, Facebook's stock is still in a slump, taking the shine off the frenzy that led up to the company's initial public offering (IPO) last week.

• News: Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• News: CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

  CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• News: 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  Alcatel-Lucent is set to give Cisco and Juniper another run for the money in core routing 10 years after its initial attempt failed.

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