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• 19 October 2011

• News: VMware hopes to boost VDI popularity with new program

  VMware is launching the Rapid Desktop Program, which allows OEMs to build pre-configured appliances for desktop virtualization, making it easier for enterprises to start using the technology, the company said at VMworld in Copenhagen.

• News: Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill

  With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice.

• News: Amazon Silk offers increased security on open Wi-Fi networks

  The cloud-based design of Amazon's Silk browser has positive security side effects because it encrypts all traffic between users and websites, especially important when connected over unprotected Wi-Fi networks where session hijacking attacks can occur easily, the company said.

• News: Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort

  Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.

• News: Spotify Shakes Up Online Music Landscape, Consumers Win

  Call it the second British Invasion--this time, however, the songs are coming from the UK-based online music service Spotify, not the Beatles. Spotify is taking the United States by storm, music experts say, thanks to a deep catalog of popular tunes from major labels and a generous six-month free-trial period that allows you to enjoy tracks à la carte or even entire albums.

• News: Gmail users targeted by rogue password recovery tool

  Consumers trying to recover a Gmail password have been reminded not to use the widely-circulating Gmail hacker Pro software, which claims it can recover forgotten passwords for a fee.

• News: VMware demos Operations for View tool

  At VMworld this week, VMware demonstrated vCenter Operations for View, an upcoming management tool that will allow enterprises that have rolled out virtual desktops to get more insight into how their environment is performing and possible problems.

• News: NetSuite boosts global capabilities of its SaaS business software

  NetSuite on Wednesday announced a series of enhancements and offerings meant to make its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software more desirable to larger companies, particularly those with international operations.

• News: Criminals turn to 'card-trapping' at ATM machines to get cash

  Criminals are embracing methods to trap debit and credit cards in ATMs for retrieval later, a move believed to be motivated by better security measures designed to ensure card details are not copied at the machines, according to an industry group.

• News: Online and offline commerce on cusp of a convergence

  As consumers use PCs, smartphones and tablets, to research, compare prices and buy products, the line between brick-and-mortar and online stores is getting harder to delineate.

• News: CSC chief Laphen to retire within a year

  CSC's Chairman and CEO, Michael W. Laphen, plans to retire from his position no later than a year from now, the company announced on Tuesday.

• News: University of Westminster awarded £500,000 for smart grid research

  The University of Westminster has been awarded a £507,000 grant from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) to support a two-year research project into smart grids.

• News: Cloud more hype than reality, says Trend Micro

  Businesses are much earlier in their cloud adoption journey than hype would suggest, according to a security expert.

• News: Telefonica, Verizon soon to offer virtualized Android phones

  Telefonica and Verizon in a few months will become the first operators to offer Android phones running VMware's mobile hypervisor, the companies announced Wednesday at the VMworld 2011 Europe conference in Copenhagen.

• News: IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers

  IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.

• Opinion: Car Makers Rev up Plans for Hands-Free Car Tech

  Over the past few years, the tech capabilities of a vehicle have gone far beyond acting as a power generator for a backseat DVD player. Car dashboards can display exactly how fuel-efficient your driving habits are, direct you with a built-in GPS, read your tweets, and read your SMS texts outloud.

• 18 October 2011

• News: Cloud Code of Practice puts NZCS in driver's seat

  The reputation of the cloud computing community in New Zealand is "threatened by the lack of standards and practice guidelines", says the preamble to the draft terms of reference (ToR) for the upcoming Cloud Code of Practice.

• Opinion: DMC Goes Back to the Future, Revives DeLorean

  Remember the DeLorean, that funky, futuristic car of Back to the Future fame? Guess what--it's back.

• News: U.S. Apple Stores to Close Wednesday for Steve Jobs Tribute

  Apple reportedly will shut its U.S. retail stores for a few hours on Wednesday to allow its employees to participate in a staff celebration of the life of co-founder Steve Jobs.

• News: Apache Cassandra ready for the enterprise

  The developers behind Apache Cassandra are confident that their distributed database management system is ready for general enterprise use, and, after three years of development, have released version 1.0 of their open-source software.

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