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• 25 April 2013

• News: Crowdsourcing Offers a New and Wider Path to Innovation

  GE, Allstate try crowdsourcing contests where external brainiacs compete to produce the best answers to big-data analytics questions.

• News: Big data can be a big headache for data defenders

  Technology is outrunning the security needed to keep it safe

• News: Islamic group expands targets in bank DDoS attacks

  The hacktivist group, which has been hammering U.S. banks since late last year, has now expanded attacks to other financial services companies

• News: Report: Facebook and Twitter dont change the American political status quo

  Social media has yet to show its supposed promise as a great leveler of American democracy, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, which found that sharp divisions in political participation among socioeconomic groups persist despite the presence of Facebook and Twitter.

• 24 April 2013

• News: North Carolina auditor: 84 state-run IT projects well over budget, schedule

  Scores of IT projects being conducted by North Carolina's government are racking up higher-than-expected costs and going far beyond their planned schedules, a new report by the state's auditor has found.

• News: Ads coming soon to your Outlook.com inbox

  It was going to happen sooner or later: the clean minimalist Outlook.com will soon start displaying advertisements alongside your inbox and emails.

• News: Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

  Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

• News: EMC's storage business keeps growing while net profit shrinks slightly

  EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6 percent to US$5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1 percent year-over year to $580 million as costs rose.

• News: More malware discovered from drone cyberattacks

  Despite the exposure of the cyberespionage, Operation Beebus is still active, although its infrastructure has changed

• News: News International uses Amazon's DynamoDB to improve paywall content control

  News International has used Amazon Web Service’s DynamoDB to gain greater control over access to content across its paywalled publications, as the publisher group uses cloud systems to modernise its multimedia business.

• News: Apple's Cook talks quarterly earnings, new products

  Apple's fiscal second quarter earnings announced Tuesday proved to be a mixed bag for the company--record sales for the March quarter, offset by a drop in income. But Apple CEO Tim Cook is optimistic about the company's future, as he made clear during a conference call with analysts.

• News: Nokia banks on social integration to help boost mobile phone sales

  Nokia's latest advanced feature phone, the Asha 210, comes with a physical key to access WhatsApp messaging, as well as software clients for Twitter and Facebook.

• News: Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.

• News: FireEye finds Gh0stRAT cyberespionage campaigns continue

  A well-known cyber-spying tool called Gh0st RAT is still being employed in stealthy malware attacks, according to a new report from security firm FireEye.

• News: AP Twitter hack prompts fresh look at cybersecurity needs

  Getting hacked on Twitter is fast becoming a rite of passage for big corporations, but Tuesday's attack on the Associated Press could be a tipping point and shows that social networks must do more to keep their users safe, security experts said.

• 23 April 2013

• News: Facebook Likes Are Worth $174 to Your Brand

  According to a new report, the value of a Facebook "like" has increased 28 percent over the last three years. Here's a look at other findings from the survey, plus tips for how you can continue to use Facebook to build brand loyalty and drive sales.

• News: Jive enterprise social product gets group templates for business tasks

  Jive Software has upgraded its enterprise social collaboration product to make it easier to tailor group sites for specific business tasks and flag member comments to trigger specific actions.

• News: Airport CIO: Tips on getting security programs funded

  Ask any cyber security specialist what their biggest challenge is, and you will get a variety of answers -- ranging from strengthening network security, to managing internal threats, to protecting against cyber espionage.

• News: EMC Tackles Big Data, Cloud Skills Gap Among IT Business Leaders

  Many organizations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers. There's also a shortage of executives and business leaders with the skills to manage big data and cloud teams. EMC is seeking to change that with a new series of courses.

• News: Infor uninterested in owning cloud data centres

  Infor's CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for cloud services, despite having a desire to offer more cloud-based products in the future.

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