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09 May 2013
News: FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voting Thursday to explore using new spectrum for air-to-ground broadband service.
News: McCluggage appointed first Irish government CIO

Bill McCluggage, the former UK deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Irish government CIO.
News: Financial Times appoints ex-BBC exec as new CTO

The Financial Times (FT) has appointed John O'Donovan as its new Chief Technology Officer, who will lead the FT's technology strategy across development and operations teams.
News: Intel acquires two software companies

Intel has acquired two software companies as it continues to build its burgeoning portfolio to include more tools to write and manage programs and interfaces.
News: Obama administration expands open data access

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration.
Opinion: How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics

The rapid rise of cloud computing means corporate IT may no longer be the cheapest purveyor of application hosting, infrastructure, storage and other services. The sooner IT leaders come to terms with this, the better.
News: Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops

Dell has purchased Enstratius, a company that allows customers to manage cloud resources across multiple providers from a single management console for an undisclosed sum this week.
News: Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages

OnApp and Dell have teamed up to create pretested cloud packages for service providers and make it easier for them to roll out services, which could result in more competition in the cloud space.
News: eBay employs big data platforms to drive competitive edge

Trying to make sense of the estimated 100 terabytes of new data received every day to meet changing customer expectations and keep a competitive edge has led eBay to start using big data platforms.
News: Security practices wanting in virtual machine world, survey finds

Organizations leaning too heavily on virtualization vendors for protection, BeyondTrust finds
News: For young students, a C# coding workshop for kids

As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10.
News: Pioneer to crowdsource car navigation, add augmented reality

Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and other cars, and will share images of road conditions with other vehicles.
News: Sainsbury's Bank to outsource entire banking system in £90 million migration project

Sainsbury’s Bank will outsource its entire retail banking operations to solutions provider FIS, as it moves away from Lloyds Banking Group’s legacy systems to a new banking platform in a £90 million migration project.
News: Data centre offers 100Gbps links to customers for cloud and mobile apps

Data centre operator Redstation is offering its customers data speeds of up to 100Gbps to better support access to cloud and mobile applications.
News: California may outlaw 3-D printed guns

Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online.
News: Bootcamp approach won't create IT professionals: IITP

Would developer bootcamps - up to three months of intensive training in software programming - work in New Zealand? Yesterday Computerworld featured the views of Xero, Orion Health and Catalyst IT. Today we present the views of Tim Bell from Canterbury University and Paul Matthews from the Institute of IT Professionals.
News: Hong Kong's mercantile exchange climbs onto the cloud bandwagon

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) has joined the BT Radianz Cloud community, communications services provider BT announced on 7 May.
News: Telstra and Seven West buy a stake in online health directory

Telstra and Seven West Media have signed a $10.4 million agreement with HealthEngine for a stake in the online health directory business.
08 May 2013
News: Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products

Google is rolling out a new IT administration console for its Apps email and collaboration cloud suite and for other enterprise products such as Maps Coordinate and Chrome OS devices.
News: San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.