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Netsuite ?determined? to grow rapidly in UK

Netsuite has said it is "determined" to quickly expand its business in the UK, according to chief executive Zach Nelson at the SuiteWorld event in San Francisco.
Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit while criminal case is on

Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense for its criminal case.
Small cells could raise big problems for mobile operators

Amid growing interest in small cells, widely seen as an inevitable tool for carriers to deal with booming mobile data demand, there are now signs that it may be hard to derive the expected benefits from them in some cases.
HP's Meg Whitman in China to reaffirm PC commitment

HP chief executive Meg Whitman has reaffirmed the company?s commitment to its PC business, and has promised that HP?s newly created Printers and Personal Systems (PPS) division will get ?more than its fair share? of R&D investment in the coming years.
ICANN hopes to reopen gTLD application system on 22 May

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on 22 May its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
Rim promises multi-layered security on BlackBerry 10 OS

RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is intended to be as secure, if not more so, than the OS running on RIM's current crop of BlackBerry devices. Mobile security could become a major selling point for the new platform, for enterprises, carriers and end users alike.
RIM demos new BlackBerry 10 mobile OS, impressing programmers, users

RIM today gave a brief demonstration of its new mobile OS on an early prototype handset. And both represent a dramatic break from RIM's traditional BlackBerry heritage.
15-year-old suspected of 259 hack attacks arrested by Austrian police

Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old suspected of 259 hack attacks in three months, they said Monday. The youth has confessed, the Federal Criminal Police Office said.
Intel Inside smartphone finally coming from Lava this week

The first smartphone with an Intel chip will become available in India this week from mobile device maker Lava International, ending a long wait for the chip maker to enter the smartphone market.
Red Hat and IBM to join OpenStack Foundation

Red Hat and IBM have agreed to support the open source OpenStack Foundation, organisers behind the cloud infrastructure organisation have announced.

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Security concerns over a data centre in the cloud

When the company data centre moves to various cloud configurations, the provisioning of servers will need to be addressed.
Crowdfunding - The latest way to get your project funded

Programmers, manufacturers and developers who want to realise their creative vision without signing onerous contracts or relinquishing rights to their intellectual property now have an alternative to venture capitalists. Crowdfunding - the collection of funds directly from a target audience - has taken off. Small donations are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars, many of them channeled through a service called Kickstarter.
Securing your business in the cloud

Any IT professional who has heard ?send it to my Gmail? echo across the office will know how impossible it is to keep employees from using outside applications for work when those provided don?t quite meet their needs.
Will DevOps be as big as Cloud and Big Data?

The notion of DevOps could become as prevalent as Cloud Computing or Big Data, according to IT process automation company UC4 Software, with IT departments striving to stay agile while still developing and releasing stable code.
The most essential tools for web developers

Out of the thousands of cool add-ons out there for Firefox, Chrome and other popular Web browsers, only a select few make it onto the desktops of professional Web developers and designers. Which are the most useful for the day-to-day work of designing and developing websites?
Giving the tech freaks a guiding hand

Not long ago the "app" was a shorthand that only IT professionals used. They talked about enterprise apps, personal productivity apps, or line of business apps. Now primary school kids know what apps are and the government seems anxious to get them writing their own? For the rest of the population, apps are everywhere.
Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile

The rise of mixed mobile networks of Wi-Fi, small cells and traditional base stations, a major theme of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, may change the competitive landscape of both service providers and equipment vendors.
Would you give up your iPhone to save the bees?

Now you know that your cellphone is causing real harm what will you do?
Gatekeeper: Apple's answer to validity checks on OS X

Out of the blue, Apple just announced Mountain Lion, the next generation of its OS X operating system. By the time Mountain Lion ships sometime next summer, Apple says it will have lots of new features, some transported from its iOS environment of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch world. This column will examine just one of the new features, one that, while good, has not yet included all the functions of its iOS prototype.
Key questions to ask before taking a cloud project Agile

Agile development and the cloud are like hand in glove. But Agile can be dangerous if your organisation isn't ready for it. Here are some questions you need to consider to determine if your IT organisation is seriously ready to implement Agile.

How-tos

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How to implement next-generation storage infrastructure for Big Data

IPv6 - How to deal with new Internet Protocol upgrade

How to mask soft, undefined edges in Adobe Photoshop

How to emulate the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on your PC

How to emulate any console on your PC

How to make an Android phone fit-for-purpose in the business world

How to back up your Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo webmail

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