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17 September 2013
News: Internet.org looks to 'Facebook for Every Phone'

The companies behind Internet.org, the organization formed by Facebook, Qualcomm and several others to bring the Internet to areas that still don't have it, released a document (PDF) yesterday detailing some of their plans for the initiative. One section stands out in particular, if only for its title – Facebook for Every Phone.
News: Reddit learns lesson, bans subreddit created to find Washington Navy Yard shooters

Reddit is being applauded for quickly nixing a subreddit dedicated to finding shooters involved in killing a dozen people Monday at Washington Navy Yard.
News: Computer science major ranks No. 8 for salary potential

PayScale ranked 129 college majors based on earning potential. Engineering, math, science and technology fields dominated the rankings.
News: Top 20 colleges for computer science majors, based on earning potential

Among computer science grads, alumni from University of California, Berkeley, led the pack with a median mid-career salary of $141,400, PayScale says.
News: Trade unions unite at Fujitsu

Unite and the Public Commercial Services unions have signed an agreement to work together in representing IT workers at Fujitsu.
News: The great turnaround of the globally maligned SI

When Ramalinga Raju, the former Chairman of Satyam Computer Services, revealed in January 2009 that he had manipulated his company's accounts by $1.47 billion, it shocked the business world. It was the biggest corporate fraud in India's history.
News: How to approach partnership extension

Partnerships between vendors and systems integrators form an invaluable part of the value process for delivering solutions to enterprises. This is apparent no more so than in the Middle East, where local expertise is always sought to make an implementation a success.
News: ADCB, Emirates NBD speak out on cloud ventures

There has been no vertical that has been more hesitant in its approach to cloud computing than financial services, but two of the UAE's leading banks have bucked the trend and gone public with initiatives which embrace the technology.
News: Cloud-based DR: Recovery for all?

Unlike many IT solutions, disaster recovery is not a difficult one to explain. No knowledge awareness is necessary, and it doesn't take a whiteboard and several coffees to make management understand its purpose."
News: KVM vendor creating open source hypervisor specifically for cloud workloads

Dor Laor and Avi Kivity know a thing or two about virtualization, hypervisors and operating systems. And Laor says there are big problems with all three.
News: iStockphoto gets new logo and name

The stock media library is rebranding as iStock by Getty Images, with a new logo designed by Build.
News: £750 million current account switching service launched

The UK Payments Council-backed current account switch service (CASS) has gone live, promising to enable customers to move between banks in seven days or less.
News: SPAR deploys videoconferencing to improve business collaboration

The SPAR convenience shop business is deploying a cloud-based video conferencing system to help increase efficiency.
News: Proposed changes to WHOIS system called 'extremely disquieting'

ICANN plan for closed domain name record system criticized over putting too much power into one group's hands
News: Oakton scores David Jones managed services deal

ASX-listed IT firm, Oakton, has landed a three year managed services contract with department store retailer, David Jones.
Opinion: Lessons on the Future of IT From 'Future Shock' and 'The Singularity Is Near'

Alvin Toffler introduced to the term 'information overload,' while Ray Kurzweil told us we'll be overload with more information each decade than in the previous century. There's a lesson for the IT departments of today (and tomorrow): Ignore emerging technology, despite its flaws, at your own risk.
News: Navy Yard shooter was IT worker with resume of gun violence

The man police suspected of a mass shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, was employed by an IT subcontractor working on a government network project. He got that job despite having an arrest record for gun violence.
News: Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI

VCE, the data center-focused joint venture formed by Cisco and EMC/VMware, this week rolled out converged infrastructure systems designed to support the latest technology from the founding companies as well as specialized offerings for Oracle and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.
News: HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service

HP today took the wraps off its Next-Generation Firewall line designed to exert application-level controls and visibility over all traffic related to the enterprise, including mobile devices used in public WiFi settings and traffic from cloud services.
News: IBM hopes to Power cloud, analytics with $1 billion Linux investment

IBM will invest US$1 billion to promote Linux development over the next five years as it tries to adapt Power mainframes and servers to handle cloud and big data applications in distributed computing environments.