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• 23 May 2012

• News: TfL: NFC contactless payments will not be ready before Olympic Games

  Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it will not have completed a full roll-out of its near field communication (NFC) contactless payment system ahead of the London Olympic Games this summer.

• News: Obama orders agencies to optimize Web content for mobile

  U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

• News: Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project

  An Ohio startup company has raised US$200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.

• News: 'Clueless' boards risk lawsuits, threaten national security

  Energy/utilities sector ranks last on four of the best practices for cybersecurity, report exposes

• News: Intel launches cloud-based single sign-on service

  Listed on AppExchange, Cloud SSO has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com applications

• News: Foxconn to build new Apple production line in China

  Apple supplier Foxconn is investing $210 million (£133m) to build a new factory in China, which will house an Apple production line.

• News: Government publishes Open Data Institute plans

  The government has today published its plans to establish an Open Data Institute (ODI) in East London.

• News: BT accused of making broadband monopoly

  BT may have to split into two companies after being warned it is making a monopoly out of superfast broadband.

• News: VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

  VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.

• News: Facebook and physicians: Not good medicine

  Physicians who use social networks to share clinical experiences risk violating patient privacy. A niche industry of private social network providers has cropped up to address the desire to communicate.

• News: SAP president claims €1bn worth of in-memory business in the pipeline

  SAP has €1 billion (£808 million) worth of business in the pipeline for its in-memory HANA product, according to SAP's president of sales Robert Enslin.

• News: Subsea 7 extends IT outsourcing contract after merger

  Subsea 7, a global seabed-to-surface engineering and construction company, has extended an IT outsourcing agreement following its merger with Acergy last year.

• News: HMRC in talks with SAP to consolidate infrastructure into HANA

  SAP is in talks with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to implement HANA, an in-memory technology that allows enterprises to analyse huge volumes of data in real time.

• News: Bloomberg acquires PolarLake to bolster data management capabilities

  Bloomberg has revealed today that it has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake in a bid to bolster a newly launched enterprise data management (EDM) service.

• News: Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.

• 22 May 2012

• News: How to Design a Successful RACI Project Plan

  Having managed and rescued dozens of projects, and helped others do so, I've noted that there is always one critical success factor (CSF) that has either been effectively addressed or missed/messed up.

• News: Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• News: CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

  CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• News: Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

  Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).

• News: VoIP provider files net neutrality complaint with FCC

  A Florida VoIP carrier has filed a net neutrality complaint against a Georgia utility and broadband provider, after the utility accused the VoIP firm of theft of service for using its network to deliver voice service without paying for it.

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