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    Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

    25 May, 2012 23:31
    The Cius tablet is all but dead and rental telepresence suites haven't bloomed, but there's still a future in software, Cisco says
    Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.
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    Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

    25 May, 2012 22:22
    Market conditions, not the Facebook IPO, will determine the fate of other offerings
    The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.
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    FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

    25 May, 2012 19:53
    The agency removed a limit on channel width in part of the band, allowing Sprint and others to use 3G and 4G
    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.
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    Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

    25 May, 2012 18:34
    Oracle's IDE also provides a conduit to Oracle cloud services
    The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.
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    Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

    25 May, 2012 17:12
    Intuit says it has restored all customers, but angry sentiments linger
    Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.
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    Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

    25 May, 2012 15:45
    West New York mayor Felix Roque and his son are accused of hacking into a website that promoted his recalling from office
    The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.
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    Data security on PCI Security Standards Council’s APAC agenda

    25 May, 2012 15:34
    Council to hold inaugural Asia Pacific conference in Singapore next month
    In an effort to increase payment security awareness in the Asia Pacific region, the PCI Security Standards Council is holding an APAC event for the first time.
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    Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

    25 May, 2012 15:03
    The website No Sleep Kills looks to use health care data to show how sleep apnea can factor into auto accidents
    A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.
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    Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

    25 May, 2012 14:56
    Absitnthe 2.0 is the first untethered jailbreak available for the third-generation iPad
    Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.
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    Windows 8 update: all the latest rumours, opinions and possibilities

    25 May, 2012 14:35
    What a week it's been in the W8 world
    While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear.
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    Unthethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

    25 May, 2012 13:53
    Absitnthe 2.0 is the first untethered jailbreak available for the third-generation iPad
    Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Friday.
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    Gear and gadgets at CeBIT 2012, Sydney

    25 May, 2012 12:09
    3D printing, notebooks and more tablets than you can poke a stick at
    Techworld Australia dropped down to CeBIT at Darling Harbour to have a look at some of the gear and gadgets on offer.
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    NBN Co focuses on continuous delivery to meet its deadlines

    25 May, 2012 11:11
    For a company that works in the spotlight, being able to meet deadlines is crucial for NBN Co
    When you have worked for companies the likes of NBN Co, Telstra and Research in Motion, you become used to working in the spotlight. In fact, Michael Bromley, general manager for portals and online services (POV) at NBN Co, seems to revel in it.
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    Japan robot lab readies second prototype for work at crippled nuclear reactor

    25 May, 2012 10:17
    The Future Robotics Technology Center put several of its latest projects on display for the public in central Tokyo
    A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan.
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    AARNet extends international academic network links

    25 May, 2012 10:13
    Network joins Europe, South America and Asia consortium NRENum.net
    In a bid to increase collaboration between Australian and overseas universities, the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) has signed a partnership with NRENum.net, an international body of research and education networks that shares call routing to make free international voice/video calls.
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    Foxtel finalises Austar takeover

    25 May, 2012 10:09
    Foxtel says it will be business as usual for pay TV customers after it completed its $2 billion takeover of regional counterpart Austar
    Foxtel has completed its $2 billion takeover of regional counterpart Austar and says pricing and billing procedures will not change for customers of either service.
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    More NBN access for remote schools

    25 May, 2012 10:00
    More remote schools, health clinics and local government facilities will be able to access the federal government's broadband network, the government says
    More remote schools, health clinics and local government facilities will be able to access the National Broadband Network (NBN) through an established interim satellite service, the government says.
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    Refund for some Facebook investors

    25 May, 2012 09:43
    Investment bank Morgan Stanley will compensate retail investors who paid too much for Facebook stock last week, an insider says
    Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bought Facebook's stock in Friday's IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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    Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

    25 May, 2012 09:30
    Companies are vulnerable, but often don't realize they are
    The story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis in the second paragraph.
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    World Tech Update, May 25, 2012

    25 May, 2012 09:28
    World Tech Update
    Coming up this week on World Tech Update Google and Oracle get a verdict, Lenovo outpaces the industry, HP continues layoffs and a teenager creates a cancer detection tool.
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