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• 14 September 2011

• Opinion: New 'Freemium' Cloud Music Service Works on All Devices

  A new music service that allows members to store their music in the cloud and play it anywhere on any device was launched today by a company called TriPlay.

• Opinion: Quickly Strip Double-Spaces from Word Documents

  If you're over the age of 40, you probably took a typing class in school--and learned that it's proper to leave two spaces after a period.

• News: US agencies making progress on cybercrime, officials say

  U.S. government agencies are getting better at sharing information about cyberattacks with private companies, but cybercrime shows no signs of slowing down, cybersecurity experts told lawmakers Wednesday.

• News: Server virtualization pushes storage demand to new highs

  In 2001, VMware delivered its first virtualization products for x86 servers, setting off what has become one of today's biggest tech trends. But the benefits of virtualization, particularly its ability to allow users to rapidly provision new workloads, are pushing demand for storage to new highs.

• News: US Gov't Pays Contractors Nearly Twice As Much As Own Staff

  As the so-called Supercommittee—the U.S. Congress's Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—looks for ways to cut $1.5 trillion from the deficit, one non-partisan watchdog group has released a study suggesting that the federal government pays billions more to outsource IT work to private contractors than it does to perform the same work internally.

• News: Survey: CFOs to add finance jobs despite US unemployment

  Despite a U.S. unemployment average that has hovered around 9 percent in recent months, a survey of CFOs indicates improved fourth-quarter hiring for accounting and finance positions.

• News: Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates'

  Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization.

• News: Fulham FC launches iPad CCTV

  Fulham FC has implemented a new cloud-based CCTV system that its security team can monitor from mobile devices such as Apple iPads.

• News: Sierra Leone highlights broadband challenges

  As CTO Ventures, a commercial subsidiary of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), launched its low-cost "borderless" mobile data roaming service for member states earlier this week, Sierra Leone's information minister highlighted challenges facing broadband implementation in his country and other Commonwealth states.

• News: VMWare Fusion 4 takes on Parallels 7

  Parallels and VMWare are locked in an arms-race. Both vendors make software that enables you to run Windows on your Mac. They’ve been stuck in a tit-for-tat release cycle for years now: Every twelve months or so, one of them releases a new version of its software with a bunch of whizzy new features. Some days or weeks afterwards, the other one releases its own new version—usually with many of the same new features.

• News: Codemasters to Close Bodycount/Operation Flashpoint Studio

  Following poor critical reception of recent shooter title Bodycount, Codemasters has announced it will be closing its Guildford, UK studio and focusing on its racing titles.

• Opinion: Windows 8 App Store: What We Know So Far

  Wondering what buying apps in Windows 8 will be like using Microsoft's new app store, dubbed the Windows Store? Microsoft shared some details Tuesday about its plans during the company's keynote at the BUILD developer conference.

• News: CSC acquires Indian testing company AppLabs

  IT services company, Computer Sciences Corporation, said Wednesday it has acquired AppLabs Technologies, a privately held Indian software testing services provider, for an undisclosed amount.

• News: Senator to businesses: Protect data or pay

  Senator Richard Blumenthal says his data breach legislation will deter data breaches. IT security experts have their doubts.

• News: Cisco unveils dual role-data center

  Cisco this week opened up a new data center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a dual role: application development and disaster recovery (DR) for its production data centers in Texas.

• News: Cloud and mobile usage increasing mainframe capacity

  IT departments expect their mainframe systems to expand with the development of mobile and cloud services.

• News: ICO rebukes council after postal vote forms found in skip

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has publically ticked off Walsall Council after hundreds of discarded postal vote forms for local elections were discovered in a skip.

• News: £50k up for grabs for tech entrepreneurs

  IT start-ups have an opportunity to win £50,000 in funding at an event launched by technology entrepreneur Martin Warner, later this year.

• News: Non-profit must rehire workers fired for Facebook comments

  An NLRB administrative Law Judge found that a Buffalo-based non-profit organization acted illegally when it fired five employees last October for posting work-related comments on Facebook.

• News: Anobit doubles performance, capacity of SSD using consumer flash

  Israeli start-up Anobit on Wednesday is announcing its second generation of SSDs based on consumer NAND flash technology. The company has doubled capacity to 800GB, halved the size of its circuitry and added a SAS connector.

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