Indian CIOs have to offshore work, says Gartner

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News: Indian CIOs have to offshore work, says Gartner
News: Google bends to EU privacy concerns
News: JasperSoft BI suite speaks more languages
News: VMware Windows-on-a-Mac product close to launch
News: AOL spammer pleads guilty
Related Reading: DDOS knocks antispam sites offline
News: After Amero porn case, group sees more fights ahead
News: Safari for Windows: Released and hacked in a day
News: WWDC: Apple's iPhone open to software developers
News: Law puts damper on web security research
News: Fujitsu Siemens launches mini-mainframe servers
ITWhirled: Second Life not immune to bullying, study says


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Indian CIOs have to offshore work, says Gartner
It may now be the turn of Indian companies to offshore their IT services requirements.


Google bends to EU privacy concerns
Google Inc. will make the data it stores about end users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, part of an effort to deflate concerns about privacy raised last month by a European Union working group.


JasperSoft BI suite speaks more languages
JasperSoft Corp.'s open-source business intelligence products are speaking more languages than ever since the launch of an internationalization project in January.


VMware Windows-on-a-Mac product close to launch
VMware Inc. is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels Inc.'s software announced last week.


AOL spammer pleads guilty
Adam Vitale pled guilty Monday to sending unsolicited e-mail to 1.2 million AOL LLC subscribers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said.

RELATED READING: DDOS knocks antispam sites offline
Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline, according to the SANS Institute.


After Amero porn case, group sees more fights ahead
A volunteer effort led by lawyers, security researchers and educators wants to stop the next Julie Amero from becoming a spyware casualty.


Safari for Windows: Released and hacked in a day
Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the US$10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.


WWDC: Apple's iPhone open to software developers
Third-party software developers can create Web 2.0 applications to run on Apple Inc.'s forthcoming iPhone, company CEO Steve Jobs said Monday.


Law puts damper on web security research
Web security research is being seriously hampered by laws that punish researchers for even attempting to locate flaws in web software, much less disclosing those flaws, according to a new study.


Fujitsu Siemens launches mini-mainframe servers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has launched a brace of server series in its B2000 Business Server range, the SX100 aimed at entry-level mainframe users, and the SX160 with what FSC calls medium performance. They slot below FSC's existing mainframe range, and are based on Sparc64 processors, which FSC also uses in its high-end UNIX servers.


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Second Life not immune to bullying, study says
Not even the virtual world is safe anymore. Researchers from the University of Nottingham have discovered in a recent study on cyber-bullying that so-called "griefing" may have negative consequences for users in both Second Life and the real world.