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• 14 June 2013

• News: Coherent regulation needed for Cloud services: ACMA

  Apps, smartphones and the demand for access to content and media anywhere and on any device has led to 71 per cent of Australians using a Cloud service, whether they know it or not, according to a study by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

• News: Australia's IT services market transitions: IDC

  Information technology is growing exponentially and the combined potential of mobile broadband, mobile smart devices, Cloud, social media and big data are drastically disrupting the IT services industry, according to analyst firm, IDC.

• 13 June 2013

• News: Australian SMBs increasingly adopting flexible workforce policies: Citrix

  Half of Australia's SMBs are offering flexible workforce policies to all staff, a Citrix study has found.

• News: Spy-proof enterprise encryption is possible, but daunting

  Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data encryption technologies is not an easy task, according to security experts.

• News: US FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity

  Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said.

• News: Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress

  Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

• News: Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress

  Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.

• News: Microsoft criticized for botnet takedown tactics

  Security pros are said to be against any vendor modifying a person's computer without permission, even if the intention is good

• News: Australian security market tipped to grow 12 per cent: Gartner

  The Australian security technology and services market is forecast to hit $1.7 billion in 2013 due to the expansion of the technologies enterprises use to improve their security, according to a new Gartner report.

• News: DiData unveils private Cloud productivity solutions

  ICT solutions and services provider, Dimension Data (DiData), has launched new Cloud services hosted in its managed private Cloud environment.

• News: Yahoo to issue inactive mail accounts to other users

  Yahoo is resetting email accounts that have not been used for at least 12 months and issuing them to other users.

• News: Google detects phishing attacks in Iran ahead of elections

  Google has detected large-scale phishing attacks targeting users in Iran, ahead of presidential elections in the country.

• News: SMS spam cruises for suckers

  Top texting scam in May tantalizes vacationers

• 12 June 2013

• News: HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems

  On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems.

• News: South Korea IT services market offers opportunities: Ovum

  A recent study by an IT research firm has noted that there's enough room for growth in IT services in South Korea, given the country's stable economy and improved infrastructure.

• News: Gmail access disrupted in Iran ahead of election

  Access to Google's Gmail service appears to be disrupted in Iran just days before the country's presidential election.

• News: NSA revelations could push terrorists to other channels

  With options including mobile apps, social media and virtual worlds, knowing the capabilities may push more bad guys to 'go dark'

• News: Mozilla, others launch campaign to expose government snooping

  Dozens of political and technology groups call for full accounting of online monitoring programs

• News: Tibco welcomes third-party online meeting products into its Tibbr ESN suite

  Tibco has made it possible to plan, manage and launch third-party web meeting and video chat services from its Tibbr enterprise social networking (ESN) suite.

• 11 June 2013

• News: HP aims to shrink big data

  Hewlett-Packard wants to help organizations get rid of their useless data, all the information that is no longer needed yet still takes up expensive space on storage servers.

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