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• 06 October 2011

• News: Oracle to pay $199.5 million in gov't contracting settlement

  Oracle has agreed to pay US$199.5 million plus interest for failing to meet its contractual obligations in a 1998 contract with the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

• News: OpenStack's secret weapon is modularity

  Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud software.

• News: Oracle to pay $199.5 million in gov't contracting settlement

  Oracle has agreed to pay US$199.5 million plus interest for failing to meet its contractual obligations in a 1998 contract with the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

• News: Kiwi resellers see value in vendor programmes

  Resellers appreciate the system of investment and rewards inherent to vendor partner programmes.

• News: Google adds cloud-based SQL database to App Engine

  Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday.

• News: US lawmakers question cloud security

  A rush by President Barack Obama's administration to move U.S. government agencies to cloud computing services may lead to unintended security problems and other headaches, some lawmakers said Thursday.

• News: IT Outsourcing: Ranking Nearshore Locations for US Customers

  U.S. outsourcing customers seeking nearshore alternatives to offshore outsourcing hot spots need not look far for the leading options. Mexico is their best bet, according to a new ranking of Latin American outsourcing locations by outsourcing consultancy ThinkSolutions.

• News: Tech elite share Jobs tributes on Facebook, Google+

  When Steve Jobs' friends, colleagues and even competitors wanted to share their memories and condolences about their loss, they turned to social networking sites.

• News: Survey shows shift to cloud-based services, despite concerns

  A survey of 5,300 IT and security managers in 38 countries about cloud computing offers a vivid snapshot of expectations, anxieties and sometimes shattered hopes.

• News: FCC chairman: End telephone subsidies, build broadband

  The overhaul of an "outdated" U.S. Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes telephone service in rural areas will lead to universally available broadband service in the U.S. by the end of the decade, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.

• News: Games developer skills in short supply

  Games developers in the UK will struggle to find the right skills in a growing market, according to an e-skills UK report.

• News: Feds want uber cybersecurity compliance standard

  Tired of regulators from three or four federal agencies auditing your network security compliance every year? A congressional task force recommends a super-standard that would cut the number of annual audits back to just one.

• News: SpyEye steals banking codes by sending them to wrong phone

  Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial Trojan that tricks online banking users into changing the phone numbers associated with their accounts.

• News: Where will the Steve Jobs tech excitement come from now?

  Steve Jobs lived his life at the intersection of technology and art, but where will that vision come from now?

• News: Five Reasons to Set Up Unified Communications

  There are so many different ways to communicate with partners, customers and co-workers--by phone, email, instant messaging, fax, video conferencing, and social media. Managing each system separately is not only inefficient, but can cause conflicts since they all use the same underlying technology--the Internet.

• News: It's not the coding that's hard, it's the people

  The path to better projects may be for software developers to become better people. The source of all project dysfunction is usually the project manager, an organizational psychologist said at A recent conference on agile development.

• News: Superdry owner SuperGroup warns on £9m hit from SCM upgrade chaos

  SuperGroup, the owner of the high street Superdry clothing brand, has said major system upgrade problems will wipe up to £9 million from its annual profits.

• News: Cloud industry a 'mess' of suppliers and standards, experts warn

  The complexity of the cloud computing arena is a major stumbling block to adoption, according to delegates at this week's NetEvents business IT symposium in Rome.

• News: Pepsi announces financial award for 10 tech startups

  Pepsi drinks manufacturer PepsiCo has selected ten European technology start-up companies to support, with most of them in the UK.

• News: Ellison unveils new cloud, trashes Salesforce.com

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled a public cloud service that will run its Fusion Applications and others, and while doing so delivered a withering broadside against competitors, with his harshest words for Salesforce.com.

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