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• 22 September 2011

• News: East of England councils tender for multi-million pound HR deal

  A group of local authorities are tendering for a £4 million contract to deploy "e-recruitment and talent management systems". The work however could be worth up to £40 million if spread across the wider public sector.

• 21 September 2011

• News: Group urges U.S. to require warrants for location-based tracking

  Law enforcement officials should be required to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before using GPS or other electronic location tracking to follow individuals, a bi-partisan group said in a report released today.

• News: Salesforce.com acquires help desk service firm Assistly

  Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately US$50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• News: Senators question if Google has biased search results

  Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt denied that his company is manipulating search results during a hearing Wednesday.

• News: Congress eyes role in cloud development

  Lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday said they see a lot of potential in cloud deployment, but are unsure what they should do to encourage its growth.

• News: Oracle announces database appliance for SMBs

  Oracle is hoping to capture the fancy of smaller companies enamored with its Exadata data-processing machine, announcing Wednesday the availability of a new database appliance configured for SMBs' needs and budgets.

• News: Oracle announces database appliance for SMBs

  Oracle is hoping to capture the fancy of smaller companies enamored with its Exadata data-processing machine, announcing Wednesday the availability of a new database appliance configured for SMBs' needs and budgets.

• News: New on the iPad: The Story of Business Intelligence

  Mobile business intelligence app developer Roambi wants to marry the excitement of a magazine narrative with the dryness of business intelligence data on the iPad. The goal is to tell the story behind the numbers.

• News: MI5 wants IT specialists

  Are you interested in technology AND able to keep a secret? Is £27,250 sufficiently enticing to make you join the spooks?

• News: LightSquared claims solution to GPS interference

  LightSquared said Wednesday it has an affordable solution to interference between its 4G network and GPS systems and will have working units available for tests planned by the U.S. government in the coming months.

• News: Dutch minister changes Patriot Act stance

  The Dutch minister who had said that U.S. cloud providers might be kept from doing business in the Netherlands because of aspects of the Patriot Act now says the matter is a "conflict of legislation" that the nations have to deal with. Meanwhile, U.S. cloud providers can do business in the Netherlands.

• News: Severn Trent Water moves 10 years' of customer records

  The headline, deck headline and first paragraph have been changed on the Computerworld UK story, "Severn Trent Water moves ten years' of customer records to the cloud," which posted to the newswire Wednesday. The corrected headline, deck and first paragraph follow, in that order:

• News: Data-breach insurance caters to small businesses

  With the proliferation of data breaches, The Harford insurance company is selling a new data loss insurance aimed at small businesses that might be put at financial risk if they lose valuable and sensitive data.

• News: EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform

  EMC announced new software capability on its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance that allows users to mix and match unstructured and structured data analytics platforms.

• News: U.S. CTO challenges utilities: come up with way for consumers to have instant online access to their energy usage

  The idea sounds simple enough: you can go to your utility's Web site, click a green button and you get information about your household energy use.

• News: Oracle bets on Sparc with new releases next week

  Oracle Corp. next week will announce a new Sparc processor and a high-end server, as it continues to try to make the best of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year.

• News: Adobe forges ahead with Flash 11 as industry turns away

  Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are announced just as Microsoft chooses HTML5 over plug-ins like Flash in Metro version of IE10

• News: HCL creates 80 software delivery jobs in Ireland

  Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies has established a software delivery centre in Dublin to create 80 jobs.

• News: Microsoft paid female exec 'more than £1 million hush money'

  Microsoft allegedly paid a female executive more than £1 million to buy her silence after she was passed over for promotion to become the software giant's UK managing director, according to the Daily Telegraph.

• News: Thomas Cook signs long-term contract with Accenture for cloud services

  Thomas Cook has defied contemporary outsourcing wisdom and signed long-term IT outsourcing contracts with Accenture.

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