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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  02 June 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES Macmillan Science and Education donates £6k to Connecting Tech City Everywoman in Technology Leadership Academy opens its doors Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price Highways Agency selects Lockheed Martin for application refresh

PREMIUM CONTENT Elliptic curve cryptography in transport ticketing This article in our Royal Holloway Security Series looks at how elliptic curve cryptography on transport payment cards improves transaction times.   Realise Benefits from a Digital Strategy The Highways Agency has signed a two-year contract with Lockheed Martin to modernise its applications.

MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK Why European Commission wants cloud standards and policies in Europe Cloud is key to stimulate growth and create jobs in Europe, but needs a single cloud market, easy policies and cloud standards, says EU.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Microsoft and Salesforce bind SQL deal and Office 365 integration Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated the company’s new found openness with a strategic alliance with Salesforce.com.   Apple buys Beats and teaches CIOs how to get ahead Apple confirmed its $3 billion purchase of Beats on Wednesday after several weeks of speculation, acknowledging its entry into the realm of subscription music services -- and a rare misstep. (SearchCIO.com) UK shoe retailer Office hit by data breach Data breach at UK shoe retailer Office prompts calls for online firms to beef up security around customer details.  IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014.  Turkey’s constitutional court rules against YouTube block Turkey’s constitutional court has ruled that a government block on YouTube violates laws on freedom of expression.  Google launches right-to-be-forgotten application form Google has introduced an online application form for Europeans who want personal data to be removed from online search results.

BLOGS How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. How to make Hadoop logfile analysis fun & interesting The heady world of server log analysis kicks up another gear this week with new products proffered forth from XpoLog Ltd, the company that says it "invented" augmented search for IT log analysis.

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