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• 24 May 2012

• News: Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• News: Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

  More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

• News: Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

  IBM says a study it did of some 1,700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be -- grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

• News: Confidential data: Delete it or eat it, say security experts

  Hoarding sensitive information is easy and inexpensive, but as the collected information grows, so do the risks

• News: NASA and cybersecurity: Ground control to Major Tom?

  Latest claimed attack by Iranian students piles on to 47 attacks in fiscal year 2011, with 13 compromising the agency's computers

• News: Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

• News: Spotify deploys Salesforce Rypple for social enterprise

  Digital music service Spotify is using employee performance management software from Salesforce.com to drive engagement within the company and make giving feedback more social.

• 23 May 2012

• News: Wolfram expands into system modeling

  Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for full-scale system modeling and simulation, the company announced Wednesday.

• News: 'Clueless' boards risk lawsuits, threaten national security

  Energy/utilities sector ranks last on four of the best practices for cybersecurity, report exposes

• News: Intel launches cloud-based single sign-on service

  Listed on AppExchange, Cloud SSO has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com applications

• News: Foxconn to build new Apple production line in China

  Apple supplier Foxconn is investing $210 million (£133m) to build a new factory in China, which will house an Apple production line.

• News: Facebook and physicians: Not good medicine

  Physicians who use social networks to share clinical experiences risk violating patient privacy. A niche industry of private social network providers has cropped up to address the desire to communicate.

• News: Subsea 7 extends IT outsourcing contract after merger

  Subsea 7, a global seabed-to-surface engineering and construction company, has extended an IT outsourcing agreement following its merger with Acergy last year.

• 22 May 2012

• News: How to Design a Successful RACI Project Plan

  Having managed and rescued dozens of projects, and helped others do so, I've noted that there is always one critical success factor (CSF) that has either been effectively addressed or missed/messed up.

• News: Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

  Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).

• News: Debra Benton explains the art of the virtual handshake

  Over the last couple of years whenever she gives a speech, executive coach and business consultant Debra Benton has found that the first questions she's asked afterward are "how do I do this on the telephone?" and "how do I do this online?"

• News: Banking malware monitors victims by hijacking webcams and microphones, researchers say

  A new variant of SpyEye malware allows cybercriminals to monitor potential bank fraud victims by hijacking their webcams and microphones, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab.

• News: SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

• News: Banks warned of sophisticated new online scam

  Trusteer expects malware used to attack several German bank sites to be reconfigured for banks in other countries

• News: New White House cybersecurity chief largely an unknown

  Former OMB intelligence chief Michael Daniel will take over as the debate over CISPA, for example, heats up

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