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26 October 2011
News: Suse working on private OpenStack cloud

Attachmate's Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds.
News: RIM delays BlackBerry tablet OS to February 2012

A week after promising the PlayBook OS 2.0 to developers in October, RIM cites quality issues and says it will drop a key feature
News: Japan foreign offices, parliament hit by virus attack

Computers at Japan's diplomatic offices abroad and its House of Representatives were infected by viruses during cyberattacks over the last several months, the country's top spokesman said.
News: China detains Internet users for spreading rumors

Chinese authorities have started to detain Internet users for allegedly spreading online rumors, in its latest measure to control the country's social media sites.
News: Government Digital Service on talent hunt

The government has announced a recruitment drive for new developers, designers and web operations staff to help transform its digital services.
News: Oracle catching on to cloud importance with £940m RightNow acquisition

Oracle is catching onto the importance of cloud computing with its $1.5 billion (£941 million) acquisition of RightNow Technologies, announced yesterday.
News: IBM: Businesses unable to analyse 90 percent of their data

IBM has warned of a major data analysis problem among big businesses, with many unable to interpret over 90 percent of their information.
News: SAP and Business Objects UK user groups merge

The UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) is merging with its Business Objects counterpart.
News: SAP Q3 profits soar on reduction of TomorrowNow provision

SAP reported Wednesday a 14 percent increase in revenue in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, and said its business pipeline continues to remain very strong and companies continue to invest in IT. The business software vendor did not however revise its outlook for the full year 2011, citing the ongoing uncertain macroeconomic environment.
25 October 2011
News: IBM names Rometty to replace Palmisano as CEO

IBM has elected Virginia Rometty as president and chief executive officer effective Jan. 1, replacing Sam Palmisano, who will retain the chairman's role.
News: IBM names Rometty to replace Palmisano as CEO

IBM has elected Virginia Rometty as president and chief executive officer effective Jan. 1, replacing Sam Palmisano, who will retain the chairman's role.
News: Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs

Quantum's new NDX-8 NAS appliance delivers 8TB of capacity with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, offering to reduce storage requirements by up to 90%.
News: Appeals court says some claims may proceed in Hannaford data breach lawsuit

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit to proceed against grocery chain Hannaford Bros. over a 2007 data breach that exposed millions of customers' credit and debit cards.
News: Japanese defense contractor admits hackers may have snatched secrets

Japan's largest defense contractor backpedaled yesterday, saying it's possible some secrets had been stolen by hackers who broke into the company's network and planted malware in August.
News: John McCarthy dies: founding father of AI, dead at 84

John McCarthy, one of the grandfathers of artificial intelligence, died Sunday. He was 84.
News: Workday aims at enterprises with cloud ERP as IPO approaches

Workday unveiled upcoming versions of its cloud-based ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software on Tuesday during an event in Las Vegas, and in the process fired a warning shot across the bow of the likes of Oracle and SAP.
News: JetBrains adds IDE for Apple iOS, Mac OS X development

Developers can build Objective-C apps and deliver Xcode-compliant projects, keeping them on the right side of Apple's development restrictions
News: Exploit-powered Android Trojan uses update attack

A new variant of the DroidKungFu Android Trojan is posing as a legitimate application update in order to infect handsets, according to security researchers from Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure.
News: Chinese competition pushes Zambian mobile plant to brink of closure

Zambia's only mobile phone manufacturing company, M-mobile Telecommunications (M-Tech), is on the brink of closure as it faces growing competition from China.
News: Offshoring and Security: IT Managers, Network Admins Divided on Risk

A recent survey reveals that more than one-third of respondents whose companies offshore IT said the practice makes their organization less secure, while the same proportion said the opposite. Overall satisfaction with offshore results overall may explain the discrepancy.