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- 25 April 2013
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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News: More malware discovered from drone cyberattacks
Despite the exposure of the cyberespionage, Operation Beebus is still active, although its infrastructure has changed
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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News: SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to merge.
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News: Bogus ad network marks new twist on Android malware
The BadNews ad framework fooled Google Play for weeks, sending fake update notifications for apps such as Skype
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News: Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising platform
Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship management) software through a new product called Social.com.
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