EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

Today Josh Gliddon tackles two of the hottest topics in the industry - crafting a story about three organisations that run complex data analytics programs on servers hosted in the public cloud.

We also break down rules and prices for Australia's mobile spectrum auction and ask whether your next smartphone might be based on the Ubuntu flavour of Linux.

I'd also like to apologise for a series of security-related outages late last week. We pulled iTnews.com.au offline after a series of attacks were levelled at sites that share resources on the Haymarket Media network, and felt it best to only resume service when we could be confident the issue had abated.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

-- Brett

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TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Joshua Gliddon | January 04, 2013

Cloud means lower cost, higher competitiveness for big data.

By Krishan Sharma | January 04, 2013

Linux-based smartphone OS built with security and management in mind.

By Charis Palmer | January 04, 2013

Equal pay with men over career less certain.

By Charis Palmer | January 04, 2013

Aussie researchers develop new material for nano devices.

By Brett Winterford | January 03, 2013

Final reserve prices and terms published for telcos.

By Diane Bartz | January 04, 2013

Search giant let off with mild reprimand.

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