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• 04 January 2012

• News: Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues

  Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and university systems are discovering new tactics in what can be challenging IT environments. Here we talk to four professionals in the education realm to get a sense for their top IT issues and what they do to handle them.

• News: Intel tells data centre managers to turn up the heat

  Intel is advising its customers to increase the temperature in their data centres, claiming that companies can save four percent in energy costs for every 1ºC they turn up the heat.

• News: IBM acquiring software testing vendor Green Hat

  IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not provided.

• News: Hadoop solidified for production duty

  After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday.

• News: Silicon Roundabout jobs fair opens for registrations

  Entrepreneurs interested in start-up jobs in East London's Tech City will have an opportunity to see what is on offer at the TechStartupJobs Fair this month.

• News: Recession could undermine data protection, says ICO

  Data protection and freedom of information are under threat from the continuing economic recession, according to the Information Commissioner's Office - which has published its strategy for the coming year and beyond.

• News: Barclays appoints customer service tech head

  Barclays has appointed Rumi Contractor as chief operating officer of its UK retail and business banking division.

• 03 January 2012

• Opinion: The Cloud, Day 20: What About Security?

  30 Days With the Cloud: Day 20

• News: Most believe U.S. won't become fully paperless

  Survey finds most Americans don't foresee an all-electronic U.S. society.

• News: Insync targets Dropbox with new file-syncing service

  A new cloud-based file-syncing venture is building on the Google Docs platform, challenging the venerable Dropbox service in the process.

• News: 10 programming languages that could shake up IT

  Do we really need another programming language? There is certainly no shortage of choices already. Between imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, compiled languages, interpreted languages, and scripting languages, no developer could ever learn all of the options available today.

• News: Up-and-coming tech jobs -- and how to land one

  Forecasts for IT hiring are almost universally predicting that project managers and business analysts will be in demand in 2012, but what about cloud transformation officers?

• News: CIOs Disconnected From Business Execs

  CIOs and their fellow executives have conflicting priorities on cost and competitors, says our 2012 State of the CIO survey

• Opinion: Why GoDaddy Hasn't Earned My Forgiveness

  GoDaddy has publicly flip-flopped to opposing the SOPA legislation in the wake of a boycott effort that saw thousands of domains transferred away from the registrar in retaliation for its support. Now that GoDaddy switched sides, it seems reasonable to put things in the past and return to business as usual, but there is still something bugging me about the GoDaddy situation.

• Opinion: Work Smarter in Office

  These three Office fixes--one each for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint--are all ones that you should know about.

• News: Arise Sir Jonathan Ive

  The Queen has made Apple's British-born designer a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of Jonathan Ive's services to design and enterprise

• News: Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012

  Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics.

• News: Mobile app developers to get their own professional organization

  The Application Developers Alliance would enable collaboration and provide education, cloud access, and lobbying efforts

• Video: IT trends to watch for in 2012

  Six editors from IDG Enterprise (Computerworld, CIO.com, CSO) discuss IT trends for 2012. Topics include the consumerization of IT, where security threats will come from, the rise of big data and the cloud, and the IT economy.

• News: Belarus said to restrict access to foreign websites

  Belarus has introduced a law that imposes restrictions on citizens and residents in the country visiting or using foreign websites, according to Global Legal Monitor, an online publication of the Law Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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