Computerworld – Apple Inc.’s new iPad tablet supports Wi-Fi, and some models will support 3G wireless service in the U.S. at what many consider a bargain price of $30 a month for unlimited data on AT&T’s network.
To illustrate how good that $30 price tag is, Apple CEO Steve Jobs proudly noted at today’s iPad unveiling [...]

IDG News Service – Although Oracle will gain all the technology it needs to launch a public cloud-computing infrastructure service like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with the purchase of Sun Microsystems, it has “no plans” to do so, Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven said Wednesday during a company event.
Services like EC2 offer pay-as-you-go, [...]

IDG News Service – If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopts broad new Net neutrality regulations, the agency’s authority to do so will be challenged in court, predicted Robert McDowell, a member of the commission.
It’s unclear whether the FCC has the authority to create Net neutrality rules for broadband providers, which under current FCC [...]

Network World – A few weeks ago I discussed drawing tools and reviewed SmartDraw 2010 Professional. At the time I wrote that the only significant problems I had with SmartDraw were that it was fussy about where it allowed you to install it, and that to import Visio diagrams, Visio had to be installed. I [...]

IDG News Service – According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are trying to sell hacked Twitter user names and passwords on-line for hundreds of dollars.
Since 2005, the bad guys have been developing new data-stealing malware that is now a growing problem on the Internet. Some of these programs look for banking passwords, others hunt [...]

InfoWorld – Web tablet mania reached a fever pitch this week. Microsoft also got some skin in the game when another old rumor made the rounds. There was even some actual news: The White House added yet another tech first to its list, NASA slashed prices on used Space Shuttles and Twitter gained a new [...]

CIO – If you follow the ERP market closely-and, really, who doesn’t these days?-then you’ve probably heard of Big ERP. For those not familiar with Big ERP’s polarizing musings on Twitter or his gluttonous Web ads, the outsized character’s views on enterprise software can best be summed up this way: He loves everything about bloated [...]

Network World – The leading trade group for wireless telecoms is defending carriers’ right to charge early termination fees to customers who break their contracts early.
FCC needs to smother eight burning wireless service fires
Responding to the Federal Communications Commission’s inquiry into early termination fees, the CTIA said that the fees were an integral part of [...]

IDG News Service – Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, the telephony management service whose iPhone-specific application Apple rejected last year.
On Tuesday, Google is launching a Google Voice Web application that runs on iPhone devices with the 3.0 OS or later versions, as well as on Palm WebOS devices.
The [...]

Earlier this year, a major review identified the potential to reduce public sector IT spending by £7.2bn from a total of £16bn, with better management information and governance of change programmes.
Conversely, £100bn in government IT spending is planned for the next five years, but it must be remembered that most public sector IT projects don’t [...]