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BREAKING IT NEWS FOR AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS Thursday February 26, 2009
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EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

VMware has found a way to port virtualisation technology onto a Nokia phone, allowing it to run both Windows CE and Android side-by-side.

Apart from being a nifty little demo, the technology has some merit.

We ourselves know a number of industry types and friends that carry around two (or more) mobiles at any one time - one business, one personal, for example - so this might prove to be a good weight reduction technique...

-- Ry Crozier

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TODAY ON ITNEWS

Software
VMware shows off phone virtualisation

By Daniel Robinson | February 26, 2009

VMware has demonstrated its forthcoming virtualisation technology for phones, showing Microsoft's Windows CE and Google's Android running side-by-side on one handset for the first time.

 
 
Internet
Google explains Gmail troubles

By Rosalie Marshall | February 26, 2009

Google has apologised for a two and a half hour Gmail outage on Tuesday morning and admitted that the cause was down to data centre maintenance.

 
 
Linux & Open Source
UK Government publishes open-source strategy

By Tom Young | February 26, 2009

The UK Government has laid out a radical 10-point policy for using open-source software that is aimed at gaining greater value from IT.

 
 
Software
AskTom rallies DBAs against generic best practice

By Ry Crozier | February 26, 2009

The database developer behind Oracle's AskTom advice column has spoken about his frustration with the root cause of some questions he receives.

 
 
Software
Microsoft debuts new technology at TechFest

By Iain Thomson | February 26, 2009

Microsoft's research arm has been showing off its current projects at the annual TechFest event in Seattle.

 
 
Software
HP updates IT management tools

By Shaun Nichols | February 26, 2009

HP is rolling out updates to its Performance Center and Application Lifecycle Management suites.

 
 

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