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• 27 September 2011

• News: Lost Smartphone Could Cost You $37,000

  What would it cost you if you lost your smartphone? How about your tablet or laptop? You might be able to replace the physical device for a few hundred, or a couple thousand, depending on the device--but that only scratches the surface of what may be lost when your smartphone, tablet, or notebook vanishes.

• News: Civil liberties groups slam EU data retention as unnecessary

  A large group of digital rights organizations has demanded proof from the European Commission that the retention of data in the European Union is necessary and proportionate for fighting serious crime.

• News: Isle of Man moves public services to hybrid cloud

  The Isle of Man Government has reduced its operating costs by 15 percent after virtualising applications and implementing cloud infrastructure from EMC.

• News: NASA cloud architect forms company for private cloud

  The lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system, is launching a new company and product aimed at helping enterprises more easily build private clouds.

• News: Oracle's Sparc SuperCluster due by year end

  Oracle has launched its new Sparc T4 processor, along with new hardware that it hopes will turn up the heat on server rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

• News: Facebook looking into NZ parallelism development

  Multi-core processors and the multi-processor render-walls of animation companies such as Weta Digital are two obvious faces of a move towards more parallelism in digital processing -- a trend that can work to New Zealand's benefit, local champion Nicolás Erdödy believes.

• News: Don't fear the Patriot Act says Microsoft lawyer

  Microsoft's Australasian legal chief says there is nothing to fear from the Patriot Act when considering a move to cloud-based services, because the US government can access your data regardless.

• News: APAC BPO market to reach revenues of $17.47 billion: Ovum

  Asia-Pacific's business process outsourcing (BPO) market will reach revenues of US$17.47 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3 per cent from the US$11.18 billion it hit in 2010, predicts Ovum in a new report.

• 26 September 2011

• News: Rite Aid rolls out in-store virtual doctor visits

  Rite Aid said today that it's installed kiosks in Detroit-area stores that allow customers to engage in online chats with physicians.

• News: GOP seeks to help high-tech firms with visas

  House Republican leaders and President Barack Obama were each holding town hall style meetings today in Silicon Valley to talk about the economy.

• News: MySQL.com hacked to serve malware

  The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors Monday.

• News: Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract

  Google and one of its resellers have asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services.

• News: Senator Calls for Investigation into OnStar Policy Changes

  Popular navigation-system OnStar, which offers in-car tracking and navigation information, has been blasted for its new privacy policy by U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer.

• News: Romania's anti-cybercrime efforts lack a social component

  Romania has long been considered a hotbed for cybercriminal activity, but in recent years law enforcement authorities have made significant efforts to crack down on online fraud gangs that steal millions every year from victims worldwide.

• News: Eurostar to introduce WiFi onboard trains

  Eurostar International has awarded contracts for onboard information systems and WiFi services to France Telecom and Nomad Digital, respectively.

• News: US agencies returning $55 million from AdSurfDaily operation

  Two U.S. government agencies have begun to return US$55 million in forfeited funds from a Web-based operation accused by investigators of being a massive Ponzi scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Secret Service announced Monday.

• News: Nokia anti-counterfeit campaign nets 11,000 items

  Nokia's campaign against counterfeit handsets recorded a major breakthrough when 11,000 Nokia items were confiscated in downtown Nairobi.

• News: Intellipad iPad app focuses on special education needs

  The iPad is becoming increasingly popular in academic settings, gracing everything from undergraduate lecture halls to medical schools to grade-level classrooms. But the iPad’s educational uses don’t stop there. Intellipad’s new Intellipad 1.0 iPad app aims to make Apple’s tablet more useful for special education, especially kids learning to read, write, and communicate.

• News: Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption

  One of Canada's largest political parties is using cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store information about voters and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law prompted the Canadian party to use a strong encryption approach.

• News: Interview with BurstPoint CFO Terenzio Volpicelli

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