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• 15 September 2011

• News: Microsoft previews Compiler-as-a-Service software

  Microsoft will release a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of a new type of compiler its researchers have been building, code-named Project Roslyn, the company executive overseeing the C# programming language announced Thursday.

• News: PayPal unveils mobile payments for in-store shopping

  PayPal has unveiled a mobile payment initiative for shoppers that doesn't require near-field communication (NFC) technology inside smartphones.

• News: Weekend startup blends gaming, ads, education

  An idea that formed in entrepreneur Tony Young Lyu's head while he was waiting in line at the Startup Weekend event last weekend could make online display advertising more effective and make people smarter at the same time.

• News: What today's software developers need to know

  Today's software developers don't have to worry about many things that their predecessors used to, like coding to minimize RAM consumption even if it means significantly longer execution time, or WAN connections maxing out at 14.4 kilobits per second. (Although, there may be some out-of-fashion skills they could benefit from or that may yet regain relevance.)

• News: Amazon Web Services receives critical gov't certification

  Amazon on Thursday said that many of its Web services now have a crucial certification that allows federal government agencies with strict security requirements to use the services.

• News: SAP's HANA is hot, but still in early days

  The potential of SAP's HANA in-memory computing engine permeated the agenda and had attendees' tongues wagging this week at the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas, but the technology still has some maturing to do.

• News: Survey ranks best IT departments in financial services

  Goldman Sachs came out on top in a ranking of the best IT departments in the financial services sector, as determined by a survey of 144 tech pros who work in that industry.

• News: Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers

  Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive to be used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing environments.

• News: Joyent takes aim at Amazon with public cloud upgrade

  Joyent is upgrading its public cloud service with better analytics and the ability to run Linux and Windows, as it hopes to persuade CIOs to move more applications to the company's cloud, it said on Thursday.

• News: Tech's future up in the clouds at DEMO Fall '11

  For years we've been subjected to endless amounts of PR describing the wonders cloud computing will bring. At this year's DEMO Fall, we finally got to see some of them.

• News: IT ratchets up social-media involvement

  When a late arrival thought he'd catch up on the buzz at a recent conference of CIOs, he logged into Twitter. What he found -- or rather didn't find -- amazed him.

• News: VMware launches Lion ready Fusion

  VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has launched VMware Fusion 4, which provides an easy way for users to run Windows applications with Mac simplicity and costs just £39.99 until the end of the year.

• News: DHS seeks to share top-secret info with banking and finance cybersecurity pros

  The Department of Homeland Security works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence.

• News: IDC: Mobile device chaos creating heightened security demand

  The proliferation of mobile devices is competitively important for businesses but is creating “chaos” for security professionals, IDC has warned.

• News: Salesforce.com CEO slams government's lack of cloud progress

  Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has slammed the UK government for its failure to embrace the public cloud.

• News: BT and Tesco to help close gender pay gap

  BT and Tesco are among the UK companies who have voluntarily committed to reporting their gender equality data, as part of the government’s ‘Think, Act, Report’ initiative.

• News: Service desks largely measured on IT performance rather than cost - report

  IT decision makers at large firms have said their service desks are being measured mainly on how well they improve system performance levels, rather than on cost.

• 14 September 2011

• News: Hong Kong is cloud ready, says industry body

  Hong Kong is increasingly becoming the North Asia data hub with many cloud service providers setting up data centers in the SAR, said Asia Cloud Computing Association recently when releasing its first Cloud Readiness Index.

• News: Boston buzzes over start-ups at freebie-heavy WebInno

  Nothing gets people excited about technology start-ups like freebies, and there were plenty for the taking at Tuesday night’s Web Innovators Group event in Cambridge, Mass. Though having learned lessons from start-ups that have crashed and burned in recent years from perhaps an excess of generosity without a good way to pay for it, this event that packed in hundreds of entrepreneurs and their followers wasn’t without a good dose of common sense about dollars and cents as well.

• News: Curtin Uni moves to Microsoft Cloud

  Curtin University has moved its email and collaboration apps to Microsoft’s Cloud, with students now having anywhere anytime access to university files thanks to the rollout.

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