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• 14 December 2011

• News: Nissan aims to shift gear with Microsoft cloud computing deal

  Nissan has signed a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) deal with Microsoft to support its dealers around the world.

• News: Salesforce.com opens Tokyo data center

  Salesforce.com's first data center in Japan has begun operations, the company said Wednesday.

• News: Remains of the Day: Market forces

  Is Apple eyeing a flashy acquisition? Why not? It's already picked up an intern, and proved it's willing to meet advertisers halfway. The remainders for Tuesday, December 13, 2011 are a package deal.

• News: HP and Microsoft collaborate for solutions via the Cloud

  HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft have announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft's communications and collaboration applications via global private and public Cloud services.

• News: LightSquared proposes concessions on LTE

  LightSquared has submitted a significant new offer to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in its bid to use frequencies near the GPS band for a cellular data network.

• News: Aviation authority overhauls 'unreliable' comms system

  The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has flagged plans to replace its existing "unreliable" PABX-based systems with an internet protocol (IP) based voice communication system.

• News: NSW Privacy Commissioner investigates USB key auction

  The lost property auction of more than 50 USB keys by RailCorp in Sydney has prompted an investigation by the NSW Privacy Commissioner into possible breaches of privacy laws around use and distribution of personal information.

• 13 December 2011

• News: ICT panels to be slashed to half

  The Federal Government will slash the number of its ICT panels as part of a plan to cut administrative overheads.

• News: 10 Hot IT Jobs for Managers and Executives in 2012

  If you had to pick two words to describe how the market for management- and executive- level IT jobs is shaping up for 2012, you might channel Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David and say "pretty good. Pri-tay, pri-tay, pri-tay, pri-tay good."

• News: SDN company helps build clouds

  Contextream, a developer of network virtualization software for cloud computing, this week announced the availability of Contextream Grid for cloud and managed hosting providers.

• News: CA Technologies CEO: Doing what the customer needs

  As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, William McCracken, chief executive officer of CA Technologies, spoke at the recent CA World conference to IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how the concept of 'business service innovation' is driving CA's business. Insider (registration required)

• News: Google streamlines API terms of service

  The move simplifies the terms and makes them more consistent across Google's API offerings

• News: CEA switches positions, now supports Internet sales tax

  The Consumer Electronics Association has switched its position on Internet sales taxes, with the huge trade group now supporting the collection of the tax.

• News: SAP spells out vision for HANA-driven software architecture

  SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software architecture during an event in Boston on Tuesday.

• News: Ban all electronics for drivers, US safety agency says

  The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board recommended on Tuesday that states outlaw the use of all electronic devices, while driving, including cellphones with hands-free kits.

• News: Groups still oppose SOPA after proposed amendment

  A proposed amendment to the controversial copyright enforcement bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has not swayed many opponents to the legislation.

• News: Cloud Development Documentation Insanity

  Everybody knows that complex technology needs documents and training materials so that developers can effectively use it. In the cloud, this need is magnified by the fact that developers have to work with several languages at once (HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, jquery, Ruby, PHP, SQL...the possibilities are endless). So developers need more docs, right?

• News: Cloud adviser: Where's your data?

  With cloud computing, technology has advanced more quickly than the law's ability to effectively address its implications.

• News: Google extends free nationwide Gmail phone service throughout 2012

  Google on Tuesday announced that it will continue to offer free calls nationwide from within Gmail throughout all of 2012.

• News: Apple releases iTunes Store in Latin America, Match in Brazil

  Here in the U.S., it's easy to forget that some of our fellow Apple fans around the world don't have access to the resources we take for granted. So we'd like to extend a warm and hearty welcome to users of Apple products in Latin America, who as of Tuesday now have access to the iTunes Store and, in Brazil, iTunes Match.

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