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• 23 November 2011

• News: Will Congress crush tech spending?

  The failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach a deficit reduction agreement triggers automatic federal spending cuts beginning the next fiscal year, which will likely make a lot of government IT contractors nervous.

• News: Court rules that HP's Hurd investigation document can remain secret

  A document tied to an internal Hewlett-Packard sexual harassment investigation of former CEO Mark Hurd will remain sealed, according to a ruling handed down this week by the Delaware Supreme Court.

• News: Nokia Siemens to slash 17,000 jobs worldwide

  Struggling network infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to cut 17,000 jobs worldwide, as it aims to cut €1 billion (US$1.35 billion) from its costs by the end of 2013, the company said Wednesday.

• News: Western Digital hard-disk drive takeover approved, with conditions

  Western Digital will be allowed to take over Hitachi’s hard disk drive business, but only if it sells off a 3.5-inch hard disk drive production plant.

• News: Mind mapping is more about collaborative work management: Mindjet

  Mind mapping is in the midst of a shift away from its traditional roots and is increasingly focused on being more about collaborative work management, a vendor has claimed.

• News: Nokia Siemens to slash 17,000 jobs worldwide

  Struggling network infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to cut 17,000 jobs worldwide, as it aims to cut €1 billion (US$1.35 billion) from its costs by the end of 2013, the company said Wednesday.

• News: SAP could benefit from social networking company acquisition

  Enterprise software giant SAP could be close to buying a social networking company, according to Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang.

• News: Computerworld 25 years: IBM, INCIS and the internet

  In 1990 when I joined Computerworld, the hottest technology on the market was probably the recently released IBM 486 personal computer.

• News: Computerworld 25 years: Possible futures

  Ubiquitous. Pervasive. Subtle. That's how consultant Chris O'Connell describes technology in 25 years time.

• News: iOS developers take out $10k prize at iOS vs Android Hackathon event

  A team of Australian iOS developers have won $10,000 for their health focused app ‘Medic’, which provides non-urgent medical advice to users not needing to call 000.

• 22 November 2011

• News: FCC chief declares AT&T/T-Mobile merger a turkey, prepares it for slaughter

  FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski dropped an unwelcome Thanksgiving treat on AT&T's lap Tuesday by announcing he wants an administrative hearing on the carrier's plan to gobble up T-Mobile.

• News: FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's staff has found AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA to be contrary to the public interest, with officials there saying the deal would result in the largest single concentration in the U.S. mobile market in history.

• News: FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's staff has found AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA to be contrary to the public interest, with officials there saying the deal would result in the largest single concentration in the U.S. mobile market in history.

• News: DWP CIO Joe Harley retires

  Whitehall’s top CIO will leave in Spring 2012

• News: Senator threatens filibuster of Protect IP Act as vote nears

  The Protect IP Act, which would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders focused on shutting down websites accused of copyright infringement, could come up for a vote in the U.S. Senate by early December, and one senator is threatening to filibuster the bill.

• News: Software vendor says partnership with SAP led to stolen trade secrets

  Former SAP partner Wellogix is accusing the vendor of stealing its trade secrets and swindling it out of lucrative software projects, according to a lawsuit Wellogix filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

• News: Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group

  Even though it completed the bulk of a major restructuring earlier this year, Cisco continues to tweak its internal organizational structure, combining its network management group into a larger cloud and systems management technology group, according to an internal Cisco memo.

• News: Illinois water authority hack: Threat has been looming for years

  While nobody's willing to say whether a burned out pump at an Illinois water authority is the result of a cyberattack, the big issue remains that nobody can say that it wasn't, according to experts.

• News: 7 hot storage startups to watch

  From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today.

• News: HTC Dealt a Setback in Apple Patent War

  The ITC has dismissed a patent infringement claim from S3 Graphics against Apple. The ruling is bad news for HTC, which is engaged in its own patent battles with Apple, and is in the midst of acquiring S3 Graphics--ostensibly to shore up its patent arsenal.

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