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• 10 October 2011

• News: Kenyan banking security regulation spurs growth of data centers

  The Kenyan government's regulations for back up and disaster recovery plans in the banking sector has spurred growth in data centers, as businesses move to comply to new rules.

• News: African states urged to ratify Budapest Cybercrime Convention

  The Council of Europe (CoE) not to be confused with the more powerful European Union (EU) is leading the rest of the world in a push to have more countries ratify the Convention on Cybercrime. CoE's former Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal affairs, Head of Economic Crime Division, Alexander Seger, was recently in Nairobi for the sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Seger now heads CoE's new cybercrime division as the organisation reorganised itself to put more structure on cybercrime.

• News: IBM plans to change Nairobi to a smarter city

  "A city is made of man-made systems" says Tony Mwai, General Manager IBM who describes a city as a system of systems where each of them has its own information needs.

• News: Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others

  While many free software advocates warn that the cloud could kill open source, because users won't have access to the source code, Sam Ramji disagrees. He says that work is going on now to eliminate the legal liabilities of contributing to open source.

• News: Google launches Dart as a JavaScript killer

  Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language, called Dart, which the company's engineers hope will address some of the shortcomings of the widely used JavaScript language.

• News: Quick Poll: How Do You Use Virtualization?

  Virtualization is continuing to make inroads into the data center. Despite concerns around management and security, the savings from consolidating many servers or clients into a single piece of hardware are too compelling to resist.

• News: Netflix does Qwik turn, will keep DVD and streaming together

  There was no apology for the apology. But three weeks after it announced Qwikster, the spinoff that incorporated the company’s DVD rental service, Netflix on Monday morning reversed course, declaring that it would keep its DVD and streaming video services under one roof.

• News: India releases draft of new telecom policy

  Indian Minister for Communications Kapil Sibal announced a new draft telecommunication policy on Monday, aiming to give preference to domestic manufacturers of equipment, with an eye to reducing the country's import bill and ensuring the security of telecom networks.

• News: Fire at NYSE data center causes temporary disruption

  An electrical fire on Sunday at a data center of the New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah, New Jersey, affected communications connectivity to 58 trading firms, but the exchange expects "completely normal operations" for Monday's market open.

• News: H-1B Visa Cap Must Go, Says NYC Mayor

  In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce offices, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said restrictive U.S. visa policies, like the cap on H-1B visas, are a form of 'national suicide.'

• News: OpenStack Eyes 'Extreme Scale' in Upgrade

  OpenStack developers have updated the project's open-source cloud software with a new graphical interface and a unified authentication-management system.

• News: Technology key to economic growth, say businesses

  Almost 90 percent of business leaders believe technology will fuel UK economic growth over the next decade.

• 08 October 2011

• News: Hotmail's 'Graymail' Filter Will Help Business

  All the major Web-based email services have junk mail folders and spam filters that strain out obvious offenders. Categorizing messages and filtering out those you don’t want may help, but limits control. It would be nice just to tell your email program which messages you want to receive and when--and dump the rest. Windows Live Hotmail may be coming a step closer to that, with changes announced this week.

• News: DWP signs fifth large deal with HP

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has inked two major software deals with HP, covering a core benefits system and departmental application support, strengthening its dominant position with five major contracts in the department.

• News: Software firm creates 500 developer jobs in Scotland

  Avaloq, a banking software supplier, is set to create 500 jobs in Edinburgh.

• News: The Open Group publishes cloud computing migration guide

  Global standards group The Open Group has published a new book to help firms move into cloud computing.

• 07 October 2011

• News: 6 Steps to Boost Data Center Power and Cooling Efficiency

  Increased energy efficiency in a data center can be reached without major changes to IT equipment or facilities. Here are six ways to get there.

• News: GAO report: DHS data mining needs privacy oversight

  Data-mining programs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are not fully reviewed by the agency for their effectiveness and, in some cases, for their compliance with privacy protection mandates, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

• News: EU antitrust regulators give Microsoft-Skype deal green light

  Antitrust regulators in the European Union today approved Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the online telephone and chat giant.

• News: Imation launches line of NAS appliances for nearline, offline storage

  Imation today unveiled a new line of storage appliances aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises that store data in a "near-line" state or can offload it to removable hard drives for archive.

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