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• 17 May 2013

• News: No big-bang Apps news at I/O, but some announcements merit attention

  Apps, Google's flagship product for enterprise IT, had a minor presence at this week's I/O developer conference, but some announcements at the show and in prior weeks deserve attention from customers of the cloud email and collaboration suite.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

• News: Nation's critical infrastructure cyber defenses weak, DHS tells hearing

  Experts criticize government's threat sharing, noting it wants the private sector to be generous but it's stingy with the private sector

• News: Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk

  Experts say large-scale security analytics can cut through the noise to find key intelligence. But connecting the dots can lead to legal trouble

• News: Experts ding DHS vulnerability sharing plan as too limited

  Without universally availability, plan could miss smaller businesses hackers could use as an entry point to critical infrastructure companies

• News: Australian eHealth messaging trial a success

  A successful eHealth trial of secure message delivery means Australian healthcare professionals will soon be able to share clinical information through online messaging.

• News: Progress at Foxconn factories, but working hours still exceed Chinese laws

  Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA). But the Taiwanese manufacturer is making overall steady progress in improving the working conditions at a select group of factories in China, it said.

• 16 May 2013

• News: Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

  Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

• News: Jive Software adds integration tool for its enterprise social platform

  Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems.

• News: SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

• News: Getting started with Messages

  If you thought the only way you could use your Mac to communicate with other people was to send email messages, I'm about to brighten your day. For years the Mac OS has supported instant messaging, a form of texting similar to sending and receiving messages with a mobile phone.

• News: Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace

  In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud

• News: Hello, Larry! Google's Page on negativity, laws, and competitors

  [Google CEO Larry Page appeared at the end of Wednesday's Google I/O 2013 keynote, making a long statement and then answering audience questions. Here's our complete transcript, compiled by the nimble fingers of Jason Snell and Amber Bouman. Check back later for deep-dive analysis of what Page said.]

• News: Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost

  Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.

• 15 May 2013

• News: Researchers develop industrial systems that watch for security breaches

  With the new networking method, devices are able spot a problem unit and then isolate it from the network before it can do any damage

• News: Creative Cloud and iPhoto improvements

  This week we offer you a double-header--one where we start with Jackie Dove speaking with Adobe's Senior Marketing Director, Scott Morris, about the company's recent announcement that it was ending perpetual licenses for upcoming versions of Adobe Creative Suite applications. Chris Breen then talks with Jeff Carlson about ways Jeff believes iPhoto could be improved.

• News: To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry

  Experts within and outside government IT stress the role the private sector must play in helping cash-strapped federal agencies find order in their growing stockpiles of data.

• News: BUDGET 2013: Initiatives meet with mixed reactions

  Treasurer, Wayne Swan, revealed the 2013/14 Federal Budget yesterday, but some of its initiatives have been met with mixed reactions by ICT industry experts.

• News: Telstra speeds IP telephony activations with BPM

  Telstra has reduced the time of its order-to-activation process for its Telstra IP telephony service by 70 per cent after implementing business process management (BPM) software by Pegasystems, a Telstra official told the Gartner BPM Summit yesterday in Sydney.

• 14 May 2013

• News: Salesforce.com adds central file view to Chatter mobile app

  Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application.

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