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• 05 October 2011

• News: Oracle prepping its Nashorn JavaScript engine

  The technology is planned for 2013's Java SE 8 and offers a big performance boost over the present Rhino engine

• News: OpenStack spun out from Rackspace control

  Responding to the rapid adoption of their software, the folks behind the OpenStack cloud software are planning to form a stand-alone nonprofit foundation to steward future development of the open-source software suite.

• News: FCC tells retailers to stop selling mobile phone jammers

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has issued warnings to 20 online retailers selling illegal mobile phone jammers, GPS jammers, Wi-Fi jammers and other signal jamming devices, the agency said Wednesday.

• News: Startup promotes simultaneous upgrades to IPv6, cloud

  A start-up consulting firm founded by former Cisco engineers is targeting a new niche for enterprise IT departments: helping them deploy IPv6 and cloud computing simultaneously to reduce overhead costs.

• News: Republicans call for voluntary cybersecurity incentives

  The U.S. Congress should focus on voluntary incentives, instead of new regulations, as a way to encourage companies to improve their cybersecurity efforts, although some changes in current laws are needed, a group of Republican lawmakers said in a report released Wednesday.

• News: Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports

  There's a shortage of .Net talent in every area of the U.S., says Dice.com. Tech professionals who regularly develop for the Microsoft framework earn about $83,000 a year, the IT jobs specialist reports.

• News: NYC goes wireless to cut costs, expand services

  New York City is expanding the use of its citywide wireless network to more than a million devices as it tries to cut costs and expand the range of services available to residents, the city's CIO said on Wednesday.

• News: Apple preps OS X Lion for iCloud debut

  Apple appears on track to release a Mac OS X Lion update by Oct. 12, when the company will roll out iCloud, its new online synchronization and backup service.

• News: BofA says it wasn't hacked; website problems persist

  Bank of Americas online banking website has at times been inaccessible in various U.S. locations in recent days, and it continues to experience performance issues, according to Internet and mobile cloud monitoring services.

• News: Oracle Fusion Applications are finally generally available

  Oracle's Fusion Applications are finally generally available to all customers, the company announced Wednesday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as part of the most extensive public demonstration of the long-awaited software to date.

• News: Tesco Bank slams brakes on system migration after major IT failure

  Tesco has dramatically slowed down a major system migration programme at its Tesco Bank unit, following severe problems in June that locked out customers from their accounts for three days.

• News: Google+ APIs get beefed up

  After releasing an initial set of basic APIs for Google+, the company is exposing more functions that external developers can access for the tools and applications they build for the social networking site.

• News: Just how boring was that Titans-Browns NFL game? Researchers say Twitter knows

  Fans of the National Football League have plenty to be excited about so far in Houston this year, with the hometown Texans off to a 3-1 start. But just how excited are they and other NFL fans? New software from Houston’s Rice University and Motorola Mobility Applied Research Center can figure that all out using the millions of Tweets sent by fans during games.

• News: Zambian president looks into Zamtel sale to Libya

  Zambia's new president, Michael Sata, has formed a committee to investigate the controversial sale of the Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel) to Libya's LAP Green Networks.

• News: Office 365: Non-Profit Moves to Cloud for Global Relief

  NetHope, a consortium of IT leaders serving humanitarian agencies, has been keeping things in-house with Sharepoint for years. But a recent move to the cloud via Office 365 is freeing up IT staff and allowing agencies to better share information.

• News: IT industry shrinks as employer in last decade

  In overall numbers, the IT industry employed 6.5 million people in 2001. That number had slipped to 5.9 million by mid-year.

• News: Mobile security threats are heating up

  Criminals, security researchers, vendors and even investors are now taking mobile security more seriously.

• News: Adobe Creative Cloud -- more details emerge

  Adobe has revealed more details of its Creative Cloud mix of software and services for professional creatives, launched yesterday at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.

• News: India's low-cost tablet is made by Canada's DataWind

  India is closer to its much-touted target of a US$35 tablet, with DataWind, a wireless Web access products maker in Montreal, designing and making a device that it will sell to the government for $50.

• News: Amazon adds free encryption to storage service

  Using Amazon Web Services' new Server Side Encryption feature, enterprises will at no extra cost be able to encrypt data stored on the company's Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon said on Tuesday.

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