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• 08 September 2011

• News: Apple Store Stratford City to open next week

  Apple's new store in Stratford, East London, will hold its grand opening on Tuesday 13 September.

• News: Cloud Computing: What You Need to Know About PaaS

  Cloud computing discussions invariably begin with the "IPS" taxonomy: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. This taxonomy has the virtue of being comprehensible and neatly partitioning assessment requirements:

• News: 9/11: Attacks changed the way companies view IT

  The 9/11 attacks raised awareness in the IT industry about disaster recovery and data backup.

• News: Ten years after 9/11: Public safety network may be near

  A nationwide voice and data network for emergency response agencies may be close to approval in Congress.

• News: 9/11 continues to influence IT strategy

  Many companies had refined their IT disaster recovery programs prior to 9/11, but the attacks exposed a lack of attention to continuity of business operations.

• News: Cloud computing and governance in the digital age - Part 3

  During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panelincluded former US federal government chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Burberry chief executive officer, Angela Ahrendts.

• News: Amazon cloud SDKs for Android, iOS exit beta testing

  Amazon's SDKs (software development kits) for Android and Apple's iOS have exited the beta testing phase, the company said on Wednesday.

• News: IBM expands finance options for SMBs

  IBM has pledged US$1 billion in financing to help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) procure certain IBM systems and services, the company announced Thursday.

• News: BAE Systems signs Siemens PLM deal for controversial Trident submarine design

  BAE Systems has signed a contract with Siemens for product lifecycle management (PLM) software, which will be used in the development of new Trident nuclear submarines for the Royal Navy.

• News: More SAP and IT security staff needed

  Permanent staff with SAP and IT security skills were in short supply last month, according to the latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG.

• News: News International emails were deleted right up to this year, claims outsourcer HCL

  Lawyers acting for outsourcer HCL have claimed a number of emails and folders were deleted up until June this year at the request of News International, the Rupert Murdoch-owned publisher embroiled in a phone hacking scandal.

• News: Data centre expenditure growth defying downturn

  The growth of data centre expenditure by companies is defying the economic crisis, according to an in-depth report.

• News: European Parliament in applications development deal

  The European Parliament has signed a contract with Accenture for the supplier to develop, maintain and support a variety of applications across its operations.

• News: Remains of the Day: Click to agree

  One young designer takes on a hefty hunk of Apple legalese and tries to make it friendly. Meanwhile an old school union boss has a beef with Cupertino, but it's not all bad news, as an Arizona-based company has dropped its dispute with 1 Infinite Loop. And we hope you like dissecting innocuous photos for clues, because we've got our fill of that. The remainders for Wednesday, September 7, 2011 are hot on the trail.

• News: First Look: QuickBooks for Mac 2012

  As was reported earlier Wednesday, the latest version of QuickBooks, Intuit's small business finance tracking application, offers up four major new features and more than fifty other enhancements or refinements. QuickBooks for Mac 2012 isn't slated to arrive until the end of this month, but I had the chance to spend some time with these features, forming a few first impressions of the update.

• 07 September 2011

• News: The iTunes Store and the Towson Hack

  The Macworld Podcast turns its attention to iTunes Store accounts--specifically the unsettling phenomenon where customers are seeing their iTunes gift card balances zeroed out by mysterious unwanted purchases. Staff writer Lex Friedman reported on the so-called Towson Hack for Macworld.com, and he's joined by senior associate editor Dan Moren to discuss the situation and what you can do to protect your iTunes account.

• News: Survey: Value of the Cloud, Telecommuting Overstated

  Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Cisco, take notice: Despite the near-constant hype about cloud computing services, most mid-market companies are still viewing cloud as a complement, not a replacement.

• News: Lawson Software, customer embroiled in ERP project lawsuit

  Lawson Software is embroiled in the latest instance of an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project to become public.

• News: Dutch government struggles to deal with DigiNotar hack

  The Dutch government is trying to minimize the effect of the DigiNotar hack on its IT infrastructure but warned it's a time-consuming process: Not all the SSL certificates can be replaced on the fly.

• News: Southern African Internet Governance Forum launches

  The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) has teamed up with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to launch the Southern African Internet Governance Forum.

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