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Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut
A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.
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Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox
Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies."
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BlackBerry 10 gets US Department of Defense network approval
The US Department of Defense has cleared BlackBerry 10 smartphones and PlayBook tablets for use on its networks, amid reports that the department may also clear devices from Samsung Electronics and Apple.
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Former SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann joins UBS
UBS Group has appointed Oliver Bussmann as Chief Information Officer (CIO), moving on from his role as CIO of SAP.
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Russian coder caught boasting about creating Flashback Mac Trojan
Prominent security blogger Brian Krebs has traced a Russian coder who appears to be happily taking credit for the most successful example of Mac OS X malware in history, last year's infamous Flashback Trojan.
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Progress report: Building, and managing, the 21st century data centre
Even if you've never heard of Flextronics you have probably used or benefited from one of the products this global digital equipment manufacturer has helped assemble -- a Microsoft Xbox 360, for example, or components that show up in everything from Cisco and Motorola devices to aerospace and automotive equipment.
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South Korean TV and bank networks paralysed, say reports
Computer networks of banks and some broadcasters in South Korea were hit Wednesday in what is suspected to be a cyberattack, according to news reports.
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IT industry focus on skills and jobs ahead of budget announcement
The IT industry in the UK is calling on the government to introduce new measures to stimulate job creation for start-ups and encourage skills development.
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(ISC)2: Security pros need to get better at application security
(ISC)2, the world?s largest not-for-profit information security professional body, has conducted its annual survey of more than 12,000 security pros across the globe and found that although many rank software vulnerabilities as a top concern, not many have the skills to deal with application protection.
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Expired SSL certificate downs Microsoft Azure service
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.
