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Microsoft: IT industry facing skills crisis

Local council outsources staff training to IT company

Seagate ships world’s largest areal density drive

Jobs offers developers Web 2.0 apps for iPhone

Broadcom buys GPS specialist Global Locate for US$146m

Oracle claims bragging rights over Microsoft in low-end database

Linux creator Torvalds questions new open source license

Sun touts Linux/Solaris inventory management

Web forums hijacked to spread child porn

Bluetooth swallows up Nokia's Wibree

Wafer-thin cameras coming to mobile phones

IE takes center stage in June patch release

Thursday, 14th June 2007

Headlines

	Microsoft: IT industry facing skills crisis
	Local council outsources staff training to IT company
	Seagate ships world’s largest areal density drive
	Jobs offers developers Web 2.0 apps for iPhone
	Broadcom buys GPS specialist Global Locate for US$146m
	Oracle claims bragging rights over Microsoft in low-end database
	Linux creator Torvalds questions new open source license
	Sun touts Linux/Solaris inventory management
	Web forums hijacked to spread child porn
	Bluetooth swallows up Nokia's Wibree
	Wafer-thin cameras coming to mobile phones
	IE takes center stage in June patch release

Good morning,

The UK IT industry faces a potential skills shortage, according to a new report commissioned by Microsoft and sponsored by Intellect, the British Computer Society and City University in London.

Also making news, Sydney’s Fairfield City Council is the latest government body to outsource its staff training to an online policy education compliance platform.

Sarah Falson
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Microsoft: IT industry facing skills crisis
LONDON - The UK IT industry faces a potential skills shortage, according to a new report commissioned by Microsoft and sponsored by Intellect, the British Computer Society and City University in London.
By Staff Writers

Jobs Centre

Local council outsources staff training to IT company
SYDNEY – Fairfield City Council is the latest government body to outsource its staff training with PolicyPoint’s online policy education compliance platform.

By Sarah Falson

Hardware

Seagate ships world’s largest areal density drive
SYDNEY – The foundation for Seagate’s one-terabyte enterprise-level external hard drive is finally being shipped to Australia two months after the hardware’s release.
By Sarah Falson

Jobs Centre

Jobs offers developers Web 2.0 apps for iPhone
USA - Applications built for the iPhone would run in a sandbox separate from the device's operating system to keep hackers out.
By Antone Gonsalves

Hardware

Broadcom buys GPS specialist Global Locate for US$146m
USA - Broadcom says Global Locate's GPS system can find a location in seconds rather than the several minutes it takes other systems.
By W. David Gardner

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Oracle claims bragging rights over Microsoft in low-end database
USA - The company issued results of a TPC benchmark similar to one conducted by Microsoft on March 27.
By Charles Babcock

Applications

Linux creator Torvalds questions new open source license
USA - Linus Torvalds prefers the current license to GPLv3, which could be good news for Microsoft and Tivo.
By Paul McDougall

Security

Sun touts Linux/Solaris inventory management
GLOBAL - Sun Microsystems today unveiled an inventory management offering that it claims is the first to deliver one-click discovery across systems running Solaris and Linux.
By Clement James

Government/Law

Web forums hijacked to spread child porn
GLOBAL - Online forums on legitimate web pages are increasingly been taken over by cyber-criminals to promote child pornography, experts warned.

By Robert Jaques

Telco/ISP

Bluetooth swallows up Nokia's Wibree
USA - The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) trade association has merged with the Wibree Forum, the group responsible for specifying Nokia's nascent ultra low power wireless technology.

By Robert Jaques

Hardware

Wafer-thin cameras coming to mobile phones
USA - Electronics company Tessera Technologies has unveiled a wafer-level camera technology designed for miniaturised cameras in devices including mobile phones and PCs.
By Staff Writers

Applications

IE takes center stage in June patch release
USA - Microsoft has released security updates that repair a total of 15 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and bundled products.
By Tom Sanders