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• 22 January 2014

• News: Hong Kong firms to focus on hiring middle managers in 2014

  Employers in Hong Kong are geared towards hiring middle managers in 2014, said Robert Walters that recently released its annual global salary survey.

• News: Innovation to determine winners and losers in finance's data race

  There will be little respite for CIOs and CTOs in the New Year in the competitive race to better manage the complexity of their organisations' data supply chain.

• News: Risk mitigation a key focus for businesses: UXC Eclipse

  Risk mitigation is a key consideration as stakeholders look for security and guaranteed project outcomes, according to UXC Eclipse.

• News: Scientists take 'significant step' in search for antimatter

  Scientists at the CERN, or European Organization for Nuclear Research, center in Switzerland say say they've made a "significant step" in the hunt for antimatter.

• News: Hype around network technologies different from reality: SolarWinds

  Vendor-led hype around advancements in network technologies are not necessarily a reality for businesses and IT Pros yet, according to SolarWinds.

• News: Ford enlists MIT, Stanford to drive automated cars

  Ford is enlisting top U.S. universities to make self-driving cars a reality, announcing Wednesday that it hopes researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can come up with advanced algorithms to help vehicles learn where pedestrians and other automobiles will be located.

• News: A new way to pay: Dash rolls out more mobile payment tools at restaurants

  The iOS app that wants to make paying your bar tab as easy as ordering Seamless food delivery is adding new features and expanding to more restaurants. Dash on Wednesday launched a Dashboard to help out servers and bartenders while also making the diner's experience better.

• News: Red Hat refreshes private cloud stacks for the enterprise

  Red Hat has updated a number of its products for running private clouds, better preparing them for the complex ways of the enterprise.

• News: Wearables, connected homes to spur surge in data sharing by 2017, Gartner says

  By 2017, the typical mobile user will share their personalized data stream with 100 applications and services every day, with wearable devices and Internet-connected appliances fueling the use trend, according to Gartner.

• News: Chrome exploit can secretly listen to oblivious users

  Google has been pushing hard to incorporate speech recognition features into Web apps. But a Chrome exploit that can secretly transcribe your conversations unless you're paying attention probably wasn't what the company had in mind.

• News: Wearable Tech Offers Promise (and Potential Peril) for the Enterprise

  Fitness trackers, smartwatches, smartglasses. Wearable cameras, biometric wrist bands and augmented reality headsets. These are just a few of the types of wearable gadgets grabbing headlines these days.

• News: Why VMware spent $1.5B on AirWatch

  VMware's purchase of AirWatch shows just how important the mobile device management market is for not only end users, but big technology companies too. The move - which at $1.5 billion is the largest acquisition in company history – also sets VMware on a path to further diversity from its core virtualization and cloud computing markets and almost instantly become a major player in the mobile market.

• News: Consumer Watchdog files Google+ complaint with FTC

  Google, through its plan to link Gmail addresses to its Google+ social network, is violating a privacy agreement the company made with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a long-time critic of the company's privacy practices said in a complaint to the agency.

• News: Some Tor exit nodes attempt to spy on encrypted traffic, researchers find

  Computer scientists found almost 20 exit relays in the Tor anonymity network that attempted to spy on users' encrypted traffic using man-in-the-middle techniques.

• News: China blames Internet outage on hacking attack

  Tuesday's Internet outage in China is dividing experts over what caused the networking error, with authorities calling it a hacking attack, and others blaming it on the country's censorship systems.

• News: Judge partially dismisses Oracle lawsuit against Solaris support providers

  A federal judge has tossed out part of a lawsuit Oracle filed against third-party support providers Terix and Maintech, in what could set a precedent for similar cases.

• News: TrustyCon vs. RSA and NSA: New conference pushes trustworthy agenda

  Who do you trust? That's a question asked increasingly by a security industry with a growing sense that the National Security Agency (NSA) has sought to weaken encryption or get backdoors into computers, based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the media. Now, trust is also the theme of a new conference called TrustyCon that will vie for attention on Feb. 27 in San Francisco while the big RSA Conference for security pros is also taking place in that city.

• News: IBM's low-end server business back in play; Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo circling

  IBM has revived efforts to sell its low-end server business and Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo are all lining up to take a look, according to reports this week.

• News: Gates talks Microsoft CEO search: Nothing to see, move along

  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates dodged questions yesterday about the lengthening search for a new chief executive to run the company he co-founded nearly 39 years ago.

• News: 'GenMobile' Thinks Beyond 9-to-5

  A new workday is emerging among the younger mobile generation, but while millennials excel at blending work and personal activities on weekends and into the night, the productivity comes on their terms.

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