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Fear of more attacks could hurt business in India
Mumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left around 195 dead, and close to 300 injured. But there are questions whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated terrorist attacks in the past. More..

China's NetDragon teams with EA on online game
Chinese game developer NetDragon Websoft plans to work with U.S. digital game maker Electronic Arts (EA) to create a multiplayer online game based on EA's Dungeon Keeper series of digital games. More..

Lenovo announces a desktop alternative for secure managed PCs
Every organization is looking for ways to reduce the cost of end user computing and to make it more secure. According to Gartner, better management of the desktop environment can yield thousands of dollars of savings over the lifetime of a single PC, while also bolstering data security. Lenovo just announced a new desktop alternative solution it calls the Secure Managed Client (SMC). Lenovo believes this storage-based solution can save customers up to 40% of the cost of a network of regular PCs. Read on to see how it's done. More..

Obvious mistakes caused Europeana site failure
"Brussels, we have a problem." That was the message to the paymasters behind Europeana, an Internet portal designed to pool all of Europe's most treasured cultural icons, as it tried unsuccessfully to launch last week. More..

New IBM services offer cloud setup, 'validation'
IBM launched a new set of cloud computing consulting and implementation services on Monday, framing the move as something that could spark wider adoption of the model. More..

Experts: Weak economy to grow managed network services
Managed network services are expected to continue to grow at a healthy pace, even as the economy tanks, according to an analyst and industry sources. More..

Amazon, Capgemini partner on application development
Consultancy Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure, the companies said on Tuesday. More..

Facebook app verification fee draws criticism
Facebook now gives its developers the option of submitting their applications for review to obtain a seal of approval, but some developers aren't thrilled with the program. More..

Google, other supporters mark OpenSocial's first year
OpenSocial supporters celebrated on Thursday what they consider major progress in this project to establish a common set of standard APIs and tools for developing social networking applications. More..

BT to cut 10,000 jobs as services group struggles
British telecom operator BT Group will layoff 10,000 workers as it seeks to cut costs and improve the profitability of its services branch, the company said Thursday. More..

Will the Recession End Offshore Outsourcing?
I recall sitting on a panel at an outsourcing conference in New York City back in 2004 when the major spike in offshore outsourcing kicked into gear. There were protesters outside, demonstrating their frustration about U.S. jobs "moving offshore". In response, an attorney declared, "outsourcing provides a great opportunity for the U.S.-we can "offload low-value jobs and focus on higher-value, more innovative work". I recall thinking to myself, even then, that that argument didn't quite add up. More..

7 Lessons That SMBs Can Learn from Big IT
Just because you don't have a large enterprise doesn't mean you can't run your IT operation like the big guys. Here are seven ways to help your SMB implement some of the lessons big IT operations have learned over the years. Using these tips, you should be able to improve productivity, cut costs, and keep your business running smoothly. More..

Cisco overhauls Ethernet edge routers
Cisco as expected this week ushered in the new era of its Carrier Ethernet routers with an edge system designed to scale to 6.4Tbps. More..

Google Adds Free Voice and Video Chat to Gmail, Google Apps
Google added a voice and video chat feature to Gmail Tuesday. The capability allows people who use the free e-mail service to click on a contact's name and, provided their computers both have Web-cameras and microphones, talk face-to-face in a video conference. More..

CMIS promises easier information sharing
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) has been proposed as a standard by IBM, Microsoft and EMC as a way of using Web services for sharing content between a variety of content repositories. While the process of turning CMIS into a standard has just started with the submission of CMIS to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, it holds promise as a means of increasing the adoption of unified communications. More..

HP throws hat in storage virtualization ring
HP last week upped the ante on heterogeneous storage virtualization by unveiling a platform that pools storage across HP and non-HP arrays. The HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform, dubbed SVSP, is for users of Fibre Channel storage-area networks and incorporates HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). More..

Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace talk platforms
As Web application platforms rise in importance and popularity, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook executives shared tips for keeping developers happy, disagreed on philosophical issues like standards and articulated wish lists of applications they'd like to see created. More..

Salesforce.com and Google execs blast Oracle, SAP, Microsoft
Salesforce.com and Google executives had fighting words for rivals Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, saying those vendors are late to the Web-hosted software party and will pay the price for it. More..

Camera phones and GPS are for SMBs too, says startup
Small enterprises too can take advantage of cameras and GPS (Global Positioning System) built into mobile phones, according to Swedish startup Two Story Software. The company is developing a Web-based work order management service, and a first beta was announced last week. More..

Users offered SaaS asset management
FrontRange has come to the rescue of techies for whom asset management is a chore too far. The company had teamed up with Computercenter to offer asset management using software as a service (SaaS) delivery. More..

What Outsourcers Can Learn from Open-Source Communities
Outsourcing development and open-source development may at first appear to be about as far apart as baseball and football. Both use a ball in a game, but that's about it. Yet a closer look from open-source software developers and industry analysts reveals that enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community. More..

Vulnerability Management Service launched with Qualys
Tata Communications has made its Vulnerability Management Service (VMS) globally available. More..

9 Web 2.0 Startups Beating The Odds in Down Economy
As the economy struggles, the ability to receive funding for an idea and turn it into a successful start-up company will become increasingly difficult. But at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, nine companies explained how they got their companies off the ground with initial funds of $50,000 or less. More..

AT&T snaps up Wayport to gain Wi-Fi boost
AT&T expanded the scope of its Wi-Fi business today by purchasing Wayport, a network and applications management company that provides back office management for Wi-Fi hot spots. More..

Event will view Web 2.0 solutions for global problems
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, cycling legend Lance Armstrong and several technology industry CEOs will discuss this week how Internet technologies can help solve global problems. More..