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USA Today: Apple says that it received more than 1 million orders for the new iPhone 4S in the first 24 hours. That breaks the company’s previous record of 600,000 orders in 24 hours for the iPhone 4. “We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Apple VP Philip Schiller. […]

Reuters: RIM, the Canadian company that manufactures BlackBerry smartphones, has purchased NewBay, an Irish company that provides tools for social networking and editing and managing photos and videos online. The company did not release details about the deal, but analysts say that it likely paid $100 million for NewBay. Analysts also suggest that RIM made […]

The Telegraph: A problem at a RIM data center in Slough, England, has caused a major outage for BlackBerry users throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Users have been unable to access any Internet-based services, including e-mail and BBM, BlackBerry’s popular instant messaging service. The company is said to be “investigating” the problem. RIM’s […]

CIO Insight: The annual survey from the Society for Information Management shows that enterprise IT departments are faring well, despite the uncertain economic times. 85 percent of CIOs surveyed said that 2012 IT budgets will stay the same or increase, and 94 percent said staff salaries would stay the same or increase. Their top IT […]

Bloomberg: Oracle has settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which alleged that the company had overbilled federal agencies for nine years. Oracle had promised to give the GSA the same pricing it gave to its most favored commercial customers, but it did not do so. The lawsuit was originally begun […]

ComputerWeekly: Compuware has released the results of a 12-month study that tested various cloud computing platforms using the Gomez Performance Network (GPN) benchmark. Microsoft’s Azure ranked highest, followed by Google App Engine, GoGrid, OpSource and Rackspace, in that order. “We know that distance, routing and peering play an important role in determining website performance, and […]

PCWorld: Hosting provider Rackspace says it will give up control of the OpenStack open source cloud computing software. Instead, the company will set up a foundation that will manage the future development of the project. “There is not a lot that needs to be fixed,” Rackspace vice president Mark Collier said. “We just felt that […]

NetworkWorld: Outsourcing consultancy ThinkSolutions has released a list of the best IT outsourcing locations in Latin America. “It was no surprise to see Mexico at the top of the list,” said ThinkSolutions partner Tony Mataya. “NAFTA makes trade with Mexico very financially viable, and the cultural influence that comes from sharing a border with a […]

eWeek: According to comScore’s statistics from August, Google’s Android mobile operating system has captured 43.7 percent of the U.S. smartphone OS market, an increase from 41.8 percent in July. Apple’s iOS increased its share more modestly, rising to to 27.3 percent from 27 percent. RIM’s BlackBerry continued its decline, falling to 19.7 percent in August […]

InformationWeek: At the OpenWorld conference, CEO Larry Ellison announced a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering for Java developers and those deploying Oracle Fusion applications in the cloud. The move was a complete reversal for Ellison who previously called the cloud nothing but “water vapor” and described cloud computing supporters as “idiotic.” Ellison also […]

CBSNews: Shortly after Steve Jobs’ death was announced on Wednesday, Simon & Schuster, the publisher of his authorized biography, announced that it was moving the release date for the forthcoming book from Nov. 21 to Oct. 24. Pre-orders for the book skyrocketed, putting Steve Jobs first on Amazon.com’s list of bestsellers and third on Barnes […]

Huffington Post: Users have downloaded Google Earth 1 billion times, and to celebrate, Google is launching a new website. Almost everyone has used the tool to see how their houses look from space, but the new site will focus on how people have used Google Earth in meaningful and groundbreaking ways. Teachers, archaeologists, architects and […]