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• 07 October 2011

• News: Openworld: UK Oracle User Group president wins award for Fusion Apps input

  Debra Lilley, the president of the council of the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) has been recognised by Oracle’s SOA Community for her input into the development of Fusion Applications.

• News: Steve Jobs among the greatest of American innovators – Obama

  A raft of tributes to Steve Jobs has poured in from global figureheads and major IT industry figures, following news of the Apple founder’s death aged 56.

• News: Modest growth in IT staff demand

  There has been only a small growth in demand for IT staff in the last month, according to an in-depth report among recruiters.

• 06 October 2011

• News: OpenWorld 2011: IT transformations are too much work

  Once the current wave of core IT transformations have been completed it will be many years before we see their likes again as they have become simply too big, complex, and hard to do.

• 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: Stanford Hospital blames contractor for data breach

  Stanford Hospital & Clinics this week blamed a third party billing contractor for a data breach that exposed the personal data of some 20,000 patients.

• 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?

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