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• 29 April 2013

• News: Epilogue to von Simson book on strategy puts the spotlight on innovation

  After Ernest von Simson's book, "The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry," was published three years ago, he watched major shifts occur at the IT companies he had focused on, notably the slide of Hewlett-Packard at the same time that stalwart IBM maintained its industry standing.

• News: Google pays record $31K bounty for Chrome bugs

  Google this month paid a security researcher $31,336 for reporting a trio of bugs in Chrome.

• News: 25 must-have technologies for SMBs

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• 26 April 2013

• News: Facebook used as billboard for malware

  Most malware developers and botnet owners will sell their wares on underground channels. One expert called this 'a bold, bold act'

• News: Joomla finally gets built-in tagging

  Administrators of the Joomla blogging platform and content management system can now tag their content so it will be better indexed and automatically routed to the correct locations on their websites.

• News: OASIS: MQTT to be the protocol for the Internet of Things

  Setting the foundation for what may be a multitrillion-dollar marketplace, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has declared MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) as its messaging protocol of choice for the emerging Internet of Things.

• News: Locked and loaded, online gamers draw phishing attackers

  Cyber thieves attracted to the richness of in-game commerce, report finds

• News: E-signatures: The complete guide to paperless signing

  Your best-laid plans of going paperless come to a screeching halt when you need to get someone's signature on a document. That process typically involves printing the document, signing it yourself, faxing it to the other party, and waiting for them to print, sign, and fax it back--where it's printed yet a third time and filed away in a cabinet forever.

• News: Salesforce, the pillow maker and the $125,000 AmEx bill

  Salesforce.com, a pillow manufacturer and an employee of the pillow maker are caught up in a complex three-way legal battle, with a US$125,000 American Express bill and an allegedly failed software implementation at the center of the dispute.

• News: 3 Tips to Get a Payoff From Collaboration Tools

  To reap the value of collaboration tool investments, CIOs study employee behavior, create incentives and embed capabilities in current workflows

• 25 April 2013

• News: UK ramps up efforts to support high-growth tech companies

  Efforts are ramping up in both the public and private sector to enable high-growth businesses in the UK to scale rapidly and reach their full potential.

• News: Civil rights coalition says EU data protection bill threatens citizens' rights

  A coalition of international civil liberties organizations on Thursday said that some of the proposed changes to Europe's data protection laws would strip citizens of their privacy rights.

• News: Box sets its sights on healthcare customers

  Box is taking steps to increase usage of its cloud storage and file sharing system in the health care industry, where it sees a demand for tools that simplify content collaboration.

• News: Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight

  In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built.

• 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.

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