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• 31 October 2011

• News: IBM opens up smartphone, tablet support for its workers

  IBM has embraced the growing 'bring your own device' trend by allowing its employees to buy and use their own smartphones and tablets for work tasks, said IBM's CTO for mobility, Bill Bodin.

• News: China's newest supercomputer uses homegrown chips

  China has built its first supercomputer based entirely on homegrown microprocessors, a major step in breaking the country's reliance on Western technology for high-performance computing.

• 29 October 2011

• News: FTSE 100 directors pay rises 49 percent

  The earnings of FTSE 100 directors has increased by an average of 49 percent in the last financial year, according to a report from Income Data Services (IDS).

• 28 October 2011

• News: Opera CTO: Kill the browser scroll bar

  For a relatively new medium, the World Wide Web still relies on a comparatively ancient method of presenting information to the reader, that of scrolling. Now, the creator of the widely used CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and current CTO of Opera, wants to replace the browser scroll bar with page-based navigation.

• News: Six revolutionary products, as told by Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs' biography

  At Apple’s companywide memorial event for Steve Jobs, new Apple CEO Tim Cook emphasized Jobs’s direct involvement in six revolutionary products: the Mac, the iPod and iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad, Apple the company, and Pixar. Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography Steve Jobs touches on all these topics; here are closer looks at Jobs’s direct involvement with each, straight from Isaacson’s book. We’ll start with the company Jobs built.

• News: GOP advances bill to help China, India tech grads

  A key House committee this week approved a Republican-sponsored high-skill immigration bill intended to help advanced degree holders in India and China get green cards to work in the U.S.

• News: EU countries must devote 800MHz band to wireless broadband by 2013

  Europe’s Council of Ministers has said that all European Union countries must make the 800 MHz band available for wireless broadband services by January 1, 2013 as part of an ambitious deal agreed on Friday.

• News: Small carriers question FCC's phone subsidy reform

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's vote Thursday to shift long-time telephone subsidies to broadband deployment generated praise in the telecom industry, but other groups questioned the move.

• News: Internap launches first public OpenStack cloud

  Look out Amazon. OpenStack is shaping up to be a game changer in the cloud world. Today, Atlanta-based Internap Network Services announced the launch of the first public cloud built on OpenStack.

• News: Germany and Romania in hot water over data retention

  Germany and Romania are caught between a rock and a hard place over data retention.

• News: Showdown Looms Over New Controversial Anti-piracy Bill

  California Democrat, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, believes that a controversial new anti-piracy bill introduced Wednesday in the House of Representatives could mean "the end of the Internet as we know it." Hollywood, content creators, and groups such as the Teamsters, on the other hand, support the bill arguing it will save and protect U.S. jobs.

• News: Government CIOs are undervalued, official audit report finds

  Just two central government CIOs out of a possible 17 surveyed sit on their department’s boards, a National Audit Office (NAO) survey has found.

• News: Australian Stock Exchange network falls flat on Big Bang anniversary

  Network connectivity problems forced the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) offline for four hours, on the day electronic trading’s ‘Big Bang’ reached its 25th anniversary in London.

• News: British Airways targets Lean processes in BPO renewal

  British Airways (BA) has renewed a business process outsourcing deal with WNS, an offshore unit it spun off in 2002.

• News: bet365 begins IT recruitment drive

  bet365 has announced plans to recruit a new specialist team of software developers and network architects to build the online gambling company a more efficient IT platform for the future.

• News: Whitehall spells out cloud, green and end user IT strategy

  The Cabinet Office has fleshed out the core Government ICT strategy that was laid out back in March, with policy documents on cloud, green IT, general ICT capability and end user devices.

• News: Collaboration, partnerships with multiple vendors key to Cloud success: Thomas Duryea

  Collaboration and communication with a variety of industry leaders is vital for CIOs looking to implement Cloud computing, an IT industry CEO claimed.

• News: GPS group counters LightSquared claims

  The Coalition to Save Our GPS challenged LightSquared's forecasts that the FCC will be able to resolve the controversy over the company's planned cellular network by the end of this year, using a conference call with reporters on Thursday to slam the startup's business plan and technical claims.

• News: Facebook data center project takes aim at vendor lock-in

  By launching the Open Compute Project as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardize the market for data center equipment, thereby reducing costs and vendor lock-in, the new foundation's board members said at a press conference Thursday.

• 27 October 2011

• News: Judge says no to posters, stickers in cell retailers

  The city of San Francisco can't make retailers display signs and stickers with information about cellphone health risks, but it can require retailers to give customers an information sheet about it, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

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