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08 November 2013
News: Alcatel-Lucent enterprise on the block again?

Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly looking again to sell its enterprise business as it attempt to cut expenses through an asset sale.
News: Senior executives blamed for a majority of undisclosed security incidents

According to a report from ThreatTrack Security, the company responsible for VIPRE Anti-Virus, a majority of malware analysts say that they've investigated or addressed a security incident that was never disclosed by their company. Moreover, many of those unreported incidents were caused by a senior executive within the organization.
News: 5 video interviewing platforms put candidates on camera to help you hire your next star

Now that webcams bring video capability to anyone with a computer, the in-person interview may soon go the way of the fax machine. Several online services offer tools to use live and recorded video for prescreening candidates and for conducting job interviews. In the time you'd normally spend doing one in-person interview, you can appraise, rate, and cull a slew of prospects.
News: FAA roadmap sees challenges in allowing drones over U.S. airspace

Government and industry need to overcome significant challenges, including those related to privacy and security, before commercial drone aircraft can be safely allowed over U.S. airspace, the FAA said Thursday.
News: DOJ continues scrutiny of underground market sellers, arrests arms vendor

The U.S. Department of Justice is scrutinizing sellers on underground online marketplaces, and on Thursday said federal agents had arrested one person for alleged illegal weapons sale on underground market "Black Market Reloaded" in an elaborate sting operation.
News: Twitter won't pay tax on the first $107 million of income it reports

The federal deficit--the amount by which the government's total budget outlays exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year--is estimated at $680 billion for fiscal year 2013. The federal debt--the sum total of our deficits over the years--is sitting at about $17 trillion.
07 November 2013
News: Etisalat, the Middle East's largest telco, expands in West Africa

Emirates-based Etisalat is set to expand its share in the highly competitive West African telecom market with its takeover of Vivendi's 53 percent stake in Maroc Telecom.
News: Do-or-die time for Acer as it hunts for winning strategy

Best known for its low-cost laptops, Acer doesn't really inspire thoughts of premium products. But building high-end hardware could be the Taiwanese vendor's best shot as it looks for a way to rescue its struggling business.
News: Hong Kong hosts OpenStack Summit for the first time

The OpenStack Foundation kicked off the four-day OpenStack Summit 2013 on Tuesday at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong, expecting a crowd of 3,000 to show up. The global event--now in its third year--is held outside the US for the first time.
News: Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters

The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of "deceptive" patent infringement demand letters sent from patent licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate committee.
News: Can Singapore be Asia's Innovation Hub?

Can Singapore be Asia's Silicon Valley?
News: Google ordered by French court to block Max Mosley sex party photos

A French court has ordered Google to block from its search results pictures of former Formula One motor racing president Max Mosley participating in a sado-masochistic sex party with five women.
News: Facebook expands in Europe as it scoops up new employees

Facebook is moving to bigger offices in London and Dublin to accommodate its rapidly expanding European workforce.
News: Apple brings 'warrant canary' into Patriot Act info request coal mine

Apple received kudos yesterday for inserting a 'warrant canary' in its first transparency report on government information requests.
News: 'War Room' notes describe IT chaos at Healthcare.gov

On the morning of Oct. 1 in Washington, temperatures in the low 80s were expected, the Republican-engineered federal shutdown was in its first day, and a Healthcare.gov "War Room" team gathered for a meeting. They kept notes.
News: Lenovo profit up 36 percent on smartphone, tablet demand

Chinese PC maker Lenovo posted a 36 percent year-over-year growth in its net profit in the third quarter, with demand for the company's smartphones and tablets continuing to outpace shipments for its PC products.
News: Silk Road online drug marketplace resurfaces

The Silk Road online marketplace has resurfaced about a month after U.S. officials shut down the website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity service, and arrested among others a man named Ross William Ulbricht, who was alleged to be the site's owner and operator.
News: Microsoft Australia encourages employees to work from home in Spring Day Out

Microsoft Australia has put forward a challenge to all of its local employees to work from home on November 7, calling it a ‘Spring Day Out.'
News: Twitter sets IPO price at $26

Twitter has set its IPO price at US$26 per share, a dollar above the top end of the price range it predicted earlier this week.
06 November 2013
News: Airtel's deal for Warid's Congo business reflects African consolidation trend

Battle lines have been drawn in the fight to acquire African telecom service providers as mobile operators Bharti Airtel and MTN seek to expand across the continent.