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• Cisco CEO's pay falls 32%

  CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip videocam business and eliminated more than 12,000 jobs

  Written by Ann Bednarz • 17 Aug. 12 12:38

• UNSW unearths Android's potential for archaeology

  Researchers at the University of NSW are spearheading an effort to build new digital tools for archaeologist to help update a field where on-site data capture is often handwritten, or, sometimes, conducted using a dated PDA-based systems, and records storage is not infrequently paper-based.

  Written by Rohan Pearce • 17 Aug. 12 11:49

• Enterprises baulk at BYOD

  Perceived high costs, security concerns and confusion around the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has many enterprises hesitating to expand their BYOD programs, according to new research conducted by Forrester Consulting and Juniper Networks.

  Written by Byron Connolly • 17 Aug. 12 11:40

• World Tech Update, August 17, 2012

  Coming up on World Tech Update this week Julian Assange is granted asylum, we test drive the Tesla Model S, Bill Gates hosts a toilet fair and more.

  Written by Nick Barber • 17 Aug. 12 11:24

• Amazon adds more features to Oracle database in the cloud

  Amazon Web Services has announced four new features for Amazon RDS for Oracle, including the ability to run the database in a private cloud, the company said on Thursday.

  Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 17 Aug. 12 11:22

• Flood of top-level domains requires higher protections: Melbourne IT

  The proposal is meant to prevent bad actors from registering. For example, a fraudster could set up a domain like redcross.charity to solicit donations.

  Written by Adam Bender • 17 Aug. 12 11:07

• Microsoft resumes publishing Windows Phone apps

  Microsoft has resumed publishing applications on Marketplace, after sorting out a problem related to the certificates used to sign apps in the store, according to a post on Thursday on its Windows Phone developers' blog.

  Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 17 Aug. 12 10:31

• Acer does not expect 'explosive growth' for Windows 8 later this year

  Taiwanese PC maker Acer, revising its estimates, does not expect "explosive growth" for Windows 8 devices when the Microsoft operating system launches in October, with its company CEO citing a lack of consumer interest as one of the reasons.

  Written by Michael Kan • 17 Aug. 12 10:28

• Google Voice Search for Android supports 13 new languages

  Google made its Voice Search for Android available in 13 new languages, bringing the total to 42 languages and accents in 46 countries, the company said on Friday.

  Written by Loek Essers • 17 Aug. 12 10:14

• Zynga games soon appearing on Nokia's Asha Touch phones

  Zynga games Draw Something and Zynga Poker will be available on Nokia's Asha Touch range of phones later this year, the Finnish phone maker said in a blog post on Friday.

  Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 17 Aug. 12 08:42

• In Pictures: Android 4.0. Visual tour

  Find your way around Google's Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system and make the most of its new features.

  Written by JR Raphael • 17 Aug. 12 08:21

• In Pictures: 12 cool future transportation concepts

  From driverless cars to "never-stopping" trains, the way we get from point A to point B could be very different in the coming decades, most notably because of the new technologies that will be used

  Written by Brandon Butler • 17 Aug. 12 08:14

• U.S. Department of State cancels large Kindle contract

  The U.S Department of State has withdrawn plans to place a US$16.5 million order on Amazon.com for its Kindle Touch devices along with content management, and logistics, stating that it intends to conduct additional market research and re-examine its requirements for the program.

  Written by John Ribeiro • 17 Aug. 12 07:56

• Twitter clamps down on developers with restrictive API rules

  Changes to Twitter's upcoming API release are aimed at restricting consumer-focused client applications in favor of business-oriented ones, according to the company's blog on Thursday.

  Written by Jeremy Kirk • 17 Aug. 12 06:17

• Oracle to pay $2 million to settle SEC charges over India payments

  Oracle has agreed to pay a US$2 million penalty to settle charges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it did not have proper controls to prevent employees at its Indian subsidiary from secretly setting aside funds from the company's books, SEC said on Thursday.

  Written by John Ribeiro • 17 Aug. 12 05:27

• Lenovo not worried about Microsoft's Surface tablet, expects to beat it

  Lenovo said on Thursday the company was not worried about Microsoft's new Surface tablet, with its CEO stating the PC maker is confident it provides better hardware than its competitors including Microsoft.

  Written by Michael Kan • 17 Aug. 12 02:05

• Spamhaus declares Grum botnet dead, but Festi surges

  A relatively new botnet has taken up the slack left by the shutdown in July of another major spamming botnet called Grum, according to the junk mail fighting organization Spamhaus.

  Written by Jeremy Kirk • 17 Aug. 12 01:54

• Ustream preps iPhone app for live-streaming video to Facebook profiles

  Facebook users will be able to broadcast live iPhone video on their Timelines using an app that Ustream will unveil on Thursday.

  Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 17 Aug. 12 01:09

• Brocade CEO Michael Klayko resigns

  The CEO of Brocade Communications has announced plans to retire from the company, even as the storage networking vendor reported increased profits for the quarter just ended.

  Written by James Niccolai • 16 Aug. 12 23:42

• Android news and rumour roundup for the week ending August 17

  I really thought the whole stylus idea had been consigned to the same storage closet as Zip drives and dial-up modems, but Samsung doggedly stuck with it in the Galaxy Note 10.1, an ambitious new design that attempts to compete with the iPad on its own turf.

  Written by Jon Gold • 16 Aug. 12 22:32