Friday 1st June

Today’s stars: BYOD, Security, Oracle v Google, Microsoft 365

Today’s sources: ZDNet, The Guardian, TechWeek, The Register, Computer Weekly, CIO

ZDNet – BYOD: How to avoid Bring Your Own Danger – WIll Taylor
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are not only transforming the way we work, but by allowing employees to use their own devices rather than ones from the corporate pool, the BYOD epidemic is also transforming hardware budgets during a period of recession-led IT department austerity.
ZDNet – How much security is too much? – Will Taylor
Security breaches within UK companies, large and small, continue on an upward curve.

The Guardian – APIs cannot be copyrighted, judge says, torpedoing Oracle case against Android
Ruling by Judge William Alsup stymies Oracle’s aim of winning billions of dollars against Google over mobile operating system.

TechWeek – Government Wants Pragmatic Approach To Open Source – Max Smolaks
The government is promoting a pragmatic approach to open source software.

TechWeek – Microsoft Tailors Office 365 For Government Use – Tom Jowitt
Microsoft has designed a version of its cloudy Office suite specifically for government use.
The Register – ‘Europe two years late’ to the US cloud party – Paul Kunert
Privacy, security and economic meltdown blamed.

Computer Weekly – London Internet Exchange hit by suspected DDoS attack – Jennifer Scott
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has been hit by a large scale outage that many observers are blaming on a possible distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

CIO – Kyocera Launches Speakerless Phone, Uses Vibrations to Transmit Sound to the Ear – Jay Alabaster
Kyocera is demonstrating a new mobile phone that uses vibrations in its screen to transmit sound to the ear, in place of the traditional receiver speaker.

CIO – BYOD’s Phone Number Problem – Tom Kaneshige
A simple smartphone number can be an incredibly important corporate asset, but companies will have to give it up in a BYOD scenario.