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• Financial services firm figures out how to do social safely

  The freewheeling flow of information on public social media sites may cause many people in conservative, highly regulated industries such as financial services to shudder. But one Canadian firm has taken the plunge, believing its employees can use social tools in a safe and ultimately profitable way.

• Many companies are negligent about SAP security, researchers say

  SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers.

• The panic is over. Facebook is back up

  Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.

• Microsoft Dynamics ERP software now available on the Azure cloud

  Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service.

• Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse

  Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them.

• Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet

  Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

• Jive boosts mobile capabilities of its enterprise social suite

  Jive Software is making a mobile push with new and enhanced mobile applications that have an emphasis on helping users of the enterprise social networking (ESN) suite create, not just view, content from their tablets and smartphones.

• NewsGator's SharePoint add-on tries to filter, reduce enterprise social noise

  NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user.

• Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?

  Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.

• Experts support Google in Oracle's lawsuit over Java APIs

  Nearly three-dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.

• Data that's here today could be gone tomorrow, says Cerf

  As one of the computer scientists who created the Internet's TCP/IP protocol, Vinton Cerf is concerned that much of the data created since then, and for years to come, will be lost.

• Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai

  Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.

• IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer

  In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs.

• Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store

  Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers.

• Apple's crucial overscroll bounce patent claim is valid, US patent office says

  The USPTO has confirmed four claims of Apple's overscroll bounce patent, including claim 19 of the patent, according to a document filed with a Californian court on Thursday. That claim played a crucial part in Apple's US$1.05 billion dollar lawsuit against Samsung,.