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• 27 September 2010

• Video: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on cloud computing

  Ellison gives thoughtful cloud computing speech at OpenWorld

• News: Hitachi launches refreshed flagship storage array

  Hitachi today announced a new version of its flagship storage array, the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, which will allow far greater granularity to the migration of data between storage tiers based on performance requirements.

• News: Comcast hackers get 18 months in prison

  Two hackers convicted of defacing Comcast's website two years ago were sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.

• 25 September 2010

• News: The 11 must-have IT skills for 2011

  There's no doubt the recession had a negative effect of employment, across all industries, including IT. However, after months of staff cuts or hiring freezes, many companies are planning to start hiring again, and those that will be successful in grabbing the positions, will be IT employees with highly valued skills.

• 24 September 2010

• News: YouTube copyright-infringment lawsuit dismissed

  A lawuit that claimed YouTube broke European copyright laws has been dismissed by a Spanish court.

• News: Mozilla 'Seabird' concept phone a glimpse of the future

  The hottest concept mobile phone right now doesn't come from Apple, Google, Motorola or HTC. It was developed by a designer in his spare time as part of a Mozilla Labs project.

• News: Infosys CEO: People trade privacy for tech benefits

  People are willing to adjust their ideas about privacy if they can benefit from revealing more of their personal information, the CEO of Infosys Technologies said Thursday.

• News: AMD lowers revenue forecast on weak laptop sales

  Advanced Micro Devices has lowered its revenue forecast for the third quarter due to weak demand for laptops in Western Europe and North America, the company said Thursday.

• 23 September 2010

• News: EU votes in favour of tougher copyright enforcement

  The European Parliament has voted in favor of a controversial report that calls for tighter legislation when it comes to enforcing copyright laws.

• 22 September 2010

• News: Internet Explorer 9 downloaded 2 million times in two days

  Microsoft yesterday announced that users had downloaded more than two million copies of its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) beta in the two days after its Sept. 15 launch.

• News: Apple tops Customer Satisfaction Index report

  Are you happy with your Mac or iPad? Join the club--and by that, I mean those customers surveyed by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which gave Apple a score of 86 out of 100 in this year's review, giving the company its highest score to date.

• News: Sharp buys US solar project developer

  Sharp will acquire Recurrent Energy, a U.S. developer of solar energy projects, in a deal that will give the Japanese company a stronger position in the fast-growing solar-power generation business, the companies said Wednesday.

• News: Goldman Sachs predicts tablets, wireless data growth

  Goldman Sachs' investment research arm expects a coming boom in wireless data consumption fueled by 4G wireless services and the rise of mobile tablet computers.

• News: The technology behind games development revealed

  Despite a lack of attention in past years, the Australian games development industry is increasingly punching above its weight and is contributing more to the economic prosperity of the country than its profile would suggest. According to the Game Developers’ Association of Australia (GDAA), the industry body responsible for growing the profile of the Australian interactive game industry, the sector is a dynamic and sophisticated one driven by strong creative and management talent, advanced technology, and 30 years’ games development experience.

• 21 September 2010

• News: Internet Week Europe to hit London on November 8

  London will play host to over 100 events designed to celebrate the web as part of Internet Week Europe, which will take place for five days from November 8.

• News: HP and Oracle settle lawsuit against former CEO Hurd

  HP and Oracle have settled the lawsuit HP filed against its former CEO and current Oracle co-President Mark Hurd as well as "reaffirmed their long-term strategic partnership".

• News: BT upgrades phone & broadband bundle customers to fibre for free

  BT is offering its customer that have a phone and broadband bundle the chance to upgrade to its fibre service for free, when it become available in their area.

• News: Facebook promises deeper integration of social & mobile

  Rumors Monday that Facebook is building a mobile phone evolved later in the day to a Facebook spokeswoman insisting that the social networking giant simply wants to "integrate deeply into existing platforms and operating systems." And it's not working on any phone.

• 20 September 2010

• News: IBM expands analytics with $1.7 billion Netezza buy

  Netezza's high-performance analytics capabilities will be added to IBM's offerings

• News: Oracle plans Q1 2011 release for Fusion Apps

  The first release of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation Fusion Applications will be generally available in the first quarter of 2011, CEO Larry Ellison said during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sunday.

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