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Qualcomm has agreed to buy mobile banking company Firethorn Holdings for about US$210 million in the latest move into software and services by a mobile hardware vendor.

Salesforce.com is warning customers that they may be the targets of malicious software or phishing scams, after one of its employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password.

Honda Australia Motocycles & Power Equipment Pty Ltd (MPE) IT manager, Craig Bassett, has just completed a massive data cleansing exercise which was central to implementing a new two phase business strategy.

Melbourne AFL team, the Western Bulldogs, is utilizing a Software as a Service (SaaS) business model "to avoid being stuck with an outdated CRM system five years down the track."

Salesforce.com's recent spate of outages has left some of the hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software provider's customers venting about the company's poor track record of keeping its users updated on service problems. It is also underlying the importance of negotiating and enforcing SLAs (service level agreements) when trusting key IT functionality to outside vendors.

It's an ambitious undertaking, but building an identity infrastructure delivers real rewards.

Using a self-propagating worm that exploits a scripting vulnerability common to most dynamic Web sites, a Los Angeles teenager made himself the most popular member of community Web site MySpace.com earlier this month. While the attack caused little damage, the technique could be used to destroy Web site data or steal private information -- even from enterprise users behind protected networks, according to an Internet security firm.

IBM said Monday it will acquire customer data integration software maker DWL to strengthen IBM's information management middleware portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Most phishing attempts come from about 1,000 compromised "zombie" computers owned by broadband customers, and the phishing attacks are likely generated by less than five phishing operations, according to a survey by CipherTrust Inc.

If there's an IT recovery in store for this year, the top software companies haven't felt it yet. Nearly every major vendor ended its last quarter with a warning that sales were slow. Analysts say the slump signifies a combination of spending jitters and of deeper issues: Fundamental changes are under way in how customers buy software, and the shift could be a rough one for the industry's traditional leaders.