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• 09 August 2011

• News: Quark bought by private equity firm

  Platinum Equity has bought Quark, who it seems is now on the lookout to make some acquisitions of its own.

• News: NATS planning system failure delays UK flights

  Early morning flights into and out of London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted) were delayed following a post-maintenance planning system failure at National Air Traffic Control (NATS).

• News: DWP IT workers start working to rule

  HP staff working in IT support at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have today begun industrial action in response to plans to offshore 200 jobs to India.

• News: Apple launches new lower-price iMac for education

  Apple has launched a new 21.5-inch iMac specifically for education institutions, it has been confirmed.

• News: FDM Group hosts women in technology seminar for graduates

  Female graduates interested in pursuing a career in IT will be able to learn more about the industry at a free event hosted by IT training and services provider FDM Group next week.

• News: Cabinet Office considers body to protect NHS trusts from NPfIT contract exposure

  The Cabinet Office is considering intervening in the contracts between the Department of Health and its suppliers on the disastrous £11.4 billion National programme for IT, it has been reported, in order to protect local trusts from each facing multimillion pound exposure as the NHS is reformed.

• News: Taiwan political party accusses China of hacking

  A Taiwanese political party suspects the Chinese government is behind a hacking attack that stole information about the party's election activities.

• News: Agile Manifesto writers reunite to celebrate and agitate for agile

  15 of 17 co-authors gather to cite successes, share disappointments, and propose directions

• News: Software error complicates Amazon's data center recovery

  Amazon Web Services' efforts to restore service following a power outage at its Dublin data center were complicated further on Monday by an error in the EBS (Elastic Block Storage) software, the company said.

• News: Amazon Web Services reports outage in the U.S. late Monday

  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia had connectivity issues late Monday, knocking off temporarily a number of websites and services that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing infrastructure.

• News: Hyper-V & virtual PCs: How to handle virtual disks

  Choosing the right format for the right scenario is critical when it comes to performance and management of virtual hard disks (VHDs). We'll look at the pros and cons of the three methods -- fixed, pass-through and dynamic disks -- and highlight some necessary steps to maintain VHDs and reduce unnecessary I/O in your virtual environment.

• News: IBM launches new services model for municipal planners

  Based on a pilot project with the city of Portland, Oregon, IBM is offering a new services and software model to help municipal administrations predict the effects of policy choices.

• 08 August 2011

• News: Staying ahead of cloud complexity

  Managing cloud infrastructure and services is similar to traditional network management - only bigger, badder and more complex.

• News: Google, Oracle still battling over Android e-mail

  Google and Oracle continue to tussle over a potentially damaging e-mail in the ongoing lawsuit over alleged Java patent violations in the Android mobile OS.

• News: Talent wars: Are your IT staffers being poached?

  Dan Herrington says his first inkling of a brewing IT talent war came early this spring, when he noticed that "college kids weren't accepting our offers on the spot."

• News: Career Watch: Help needed for help desks

  Help Wanted on the Help Desk

• News: Lightning strike in Dublin downs Amazon, Microsoft clouds

  A lightening strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power failure in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, causing the companies' cloud services to go offline.

• News: India wants special monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook

  India's communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan attacks.

• News: 4 reasons Windows Phone 7 will beat iPhone and Android

  Microsoft has a relatively long history with mobile operating systems, stretching back to the mid-nineties and Windows CE. Developed originally for "embedded systems," Windows CE quickly found its way into PDAs and eventually phones, and while consumers never warmed to the platform, it did achieve a level of success in the enterprise.

• News: Healthcare IT Consumers Fear Data Loss From EHR Systems

  Nearly 80% of U.S. consumers say that they're wary of electronic health records because they fear that their personal information might be stolen or lost.

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