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• 02 August 2011

• News: Google, LivingSocial acquire shopping deals sites

  Google and LivingSocial are expanding in the booming shopping discounts market with new acquisitions announced Monday.

• News: CumuLogic offers private PaaS cloud software

  CumuLogic is releasing a beta version of software that lets enterprises build a private platform-as-a-service cloud for running Java applications.

• 01 August 2011

• News: Judge: E-mail in Oracle-Google case will remain public

  The judge overseeing the lawsuit Oracle filed over the Android mobile OS has denied Google's attempt to get a potentially damaging e-mail redacted.

• News: Amazon competition to highlight cloud usage among startups

  Amazon Web Services has opened the fifth annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest that aims to recognize innovative uses of its cloud computing platform, the company said on Monday.

• News: Progress Software CEO Reidy to step down

  Progress Software CEO Richard Reidy is leaving the company once his successor is found, the middleware vendor said Monday. Reidy is stepping down under mutual agreement with the company's board, according to a statement.

• News: Anonymous suspect 'Topiary' charged over DDOS attacks

  The 18-year-old teenager identified by police as the spokesman for the hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security was charged on Sunday with five offenses and expected to appear Monday in a London court.

• News: Adobe launches HTML5 rich media editor

  Planting the seeds to potentially disrupt its own successful franchise in Flash-based animation, Adobe has released a preview version of a new application, called Adobe Edge, designed for assembling dynamic Web content using HTML5 and related open Web standards, the company announced Monday.

• 30 July 2011

• News: MoD to cut 7,000 civilian jobs – IT not ruled out

  The Ministry of Defence is planning to cut 7,000 civilian jobs, which could include IT jobs, in an effort to cut costs.

• News: DVLA launches insurance enforcement platform

  The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) have launched a new system to identify uninsured drivers.

• News: Government reminds companies to increase number of women on boards

  Business secretary Vince Cable and home secretary Theresa May have written to FTSE 350 companies to remind them they have one month remaining to set targets for increasing the number of women in boardrooms.

• News: Government selects nine tech SMEs for Innovation Launchpad

  Nine innovative SMEs have been chosen by the government to pitch their ideas to government buyers.

• 29 July 2011

• News: CIO Resumes: 5 More Mistakes IT Executives Make

  When I screened résumés for CIO.com's résumé makeover, I observed a variety of mistakes IT professionals repeatedly made. They included not emphasizing relevant work experience, failing to explain the business benefits derived from their work, and including too much information.

• News: iPhone Remedies Communication Woes at Texas Hospital

  At Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), communication can be a matter of life and death. But with nurses spending more time at bedsides than behind workstations, the Houston-based healthcare facility was struggling "to drive effective communication between nurses, physicians and providers of care," says Myra Davis, vice president of information services at TCH. To cure its communication ailments, TCH turned to a wildly popular consumer device: the Apple iPhone.

• News: H&R Block Shifts from PCs to Virtualized Thin Clients

  H&R Block's (HRB) virtualization project--a CIO 100 Award winner this year--is putting thin clients in the tax preparer's thousands of retail stores in an effort to simplify its operating environment and cut expenses. The change should also help it to better compete with chains such as Jackson Hewitt, as well as with independent tax preparers and software-only rivals such as TurboTax and Intuit (INTU).

• News: A guide to H-1B, green card reform

  Unlike with the debt limit debate, there is bipartisan interest in Congress in reforming high-skill immigration. New legislation is on its way, and here's what to watch for.

• News: Google wants e-mail in Android suit redacted

  Google wants the judge overseeing the lawsuit Oracle filed over the Android mobile OS to redact a potentially damaging e-mail written by a Google employee, saying it was supposed to remain confidential and that Oracle wrongly revealed it.

• News: Data center startup Plexxi lands $20 million more

  Stealthy data center startup Plexxi has landed another $20 million in funding as it continues development of a network fabric to tie together applications, compute and storage.

• News: CouchBase, SQLite launch unified NoSQL query language

  Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query Language).

• News: Nintendo President Cuts Salary in Half

  Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced that he is cutting his own salary in half as part of a wide range of cost-cutting across the company.

• News: New e-procurement plans could boost smaller EU IT companies

  New measures to boost online public procurement in the European Union could make is increasingly easy for smaller IT companies to secure government contracts.

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