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• 14 October 2011

• News: Researcher uses Google Earth to track India's nuclear program

  The Institute for Science and International Security in Washington has used imagery from Google Earth to arrive at the conclusion that India may be constructing a gas centrifuge plant for uranium enrichment for military purposes, reinforcing Indian fears that Google Earth can be misused to compromise national security.

• News: JavaFX on iOS: Dead on arrival?

  Developers applaud Oracle's intent but see long odds on Apple allowing JavaFX apps to run on iOS

• News: Misys facing executive pay revolt

  Banking IT systems provider Misys is facing a potential shareholder revolt over executive pay, it has been reported.

• News: BlackBerry manufacturer RIM had 'single point of failure'

  BlackBerry maker RIM had a single point of failure for most of the countries affected by this week's catastrophic outage, prompting serious business continuity questions.

• News: U.S. Commerce Dept mum on Huawei block, citing security

  The U.S. Department of Commerce will not explain why it is blocking Chinese company Huawei from participating in a project to build a national wireless network, citing security reasons, a department official said.

• 13 October 2011

• News: Desktop virtualization: Parallels vs. VMware vs. VirtualBox

  Virtual machines are the best way to accommodate different application needs in a datacenter environment. Whether you need to run your apps on a specific platform, or just need to meet scaling requirements, virtualization is the solution to a lot of IT manager's problems, thanks to fast and cheap memory.

• News: Desktop virtualization: Parallels vs. VMware vs. VirtualBox

  Virtual machines are the best way to accommodate different application needs in a datacenter environment. Whether you need to run your apps on a specific platform, or just need to meet scaling requirements, virtualization is the solution to a lot of IT manager's problems, thanks to fast and cheap memory.

• News: Google's Schmidt (finally) takes to Google+

  After being noticeably absent from his company's own social network, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt finally has joined the ranks of Google+ users.

• News: Microsoft strong-arms hardware makers into social responsibility

  After years of failing to get Microsoft to adopt a formal environmental sustainability policy, shareholders seem to have won: Microsoft will now insist its hardware suppliers comply with the company's social responsibility requirements.

• News: Apple's iCloud launch woes evoke MobileMe's '08 debacle

  The launch of Apple's new iCloud service has been reminiscent of the fiasco three years ago when the company debuted MobileMe, according to users' complaints that describe a sweeping range of problems.

• News: Dell takes shots at HP, continues IT services push

  On the eve of its first ever Dell World conference, company executives took a few digs at rival HP Co. and released new enhancements aimed at rebranding itself as an end-to-end IT services vendor.

• News: Open source WineHQ database breached

  For the second time in two months, a major open source project has been breached. This time the victim is the WineHQ project which manages Wine, an open source technology that lets users install and run Windows applications on Linux, Mac, Solaris and other operating systems.

• News: Yahoo Mail site lets visitors visualize global email flow

  Yahoo plans to open a site that lets people see on an interactive world map the volume of e-mail that the company's Mail service is processing.

• News: Lawmakers disagree on need for online privacy legislation

  While representatives of the online advertising industry questioned whether new laws are needed to protect consumer privacy online, several U.S. lawmakers on Thursday called for new regulations targeting online tracking.

• News: Information Commissioner 'blocked' from auditing key sectors

  Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has said his office is "being blocked" from auditing organisations in sectors that are "causing concern" over their handling of personal information.

• News: 'Hollywood Hacker' Collared by FBI

  A man alleged to have hacked into the personal email accounts of celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera, was arrested yesterday by the FBI.

• News: Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C programming language, dead at 70

  Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

• News: An ounce of retention

  Attracting -- and keeping -- IT talent is an ongoing concern for NZ organisations, even if it was muted during the downturn. At a CIO roundtable sponsored by Absolute IT, ICT leaders from across sectors share insights on how they face this evergreen challenge. Here are excerpts from the discussion.

• News: Tweaking a proven formula

  David G Thomson travels around the globe advising on how companies can be "recession proof", or thrive through the most challenging markets and economic cycles.

• News: Cloud Service Will Back Up Your Facebook, Mobile Phone

  Cloud backup services have existed for years, and if you’re just looking to back up the files on your computer, you have plenty of options to choose from. But more and more of the files we want backed up the most are on our mobile devices or online where traditional backup tools aren’t helpful.

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