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Telin Selects Platform Equinix to Bring Network to Asia Pacific

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TeraMedica and New South Wales Health Join to Bring Imaging Services to Seven Million Australians

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D-Wave and PiCloud Forges Development Partnership to Bring Power of Quantum Computing to Cloud

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North Carolina Senior Care Council and VoxNet Bring Cloud-Based Phone System to Service

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VoIP and Similar Technologies Bring Seven Great Alternatives for In-Office Calling

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Cloud Sherpas and CipherCloud Announce Partnership to Bring Security to Cloud Customers

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According to Dev Ghoshal, senior vice president of operations at CipherCloud, “By working together, Cloud Sherpas and CipherCloud are able to help organizations worldwide that otherwise would not be able to move to the cloud. Cloud Sherpas has helped more than 1.5 million users with the process of implementing Salesforce and 'Going Google.' We are excited to be working with them as they strive for the next 1.5 million.”  

Data privacy, data residency, compliance, and security are continuing concerns with cloud adoption. Many of the top hosting providers now offer cloud services and adequate encryption tools for sensitive data have been slow to implement.

In addition to the economic advantages of an on-demand computing environment, these companies enjoy the flexibility of being able to scale their services up or down to accommodate changing needs or business requirements, without having to invest in new equipment. Yet while any type of company that requires application hosting could benefit from the provisioning of computing resources as a service, these companies do not want to expose sensitive data via the public cloud.

“Security in the cloud is a paramount issue for our customers, particularly for those facing regulatory requirements in the financial and health care industries and customers in countries with data residency requirements,” said Eran Gil, SVP, global business development, Cloud Sherpas. “Several organizations have already approached us with interest in CipherCloud's cloud data protection gateway.”  

CipherCloud's award-winning technology secures sensitive customer data across multiple public and private cloud applications without impacting functionality or performance. The solution uses comprehensive security controls including strong encryption, tokenization, activity monitoring, and malware detection. CipherCloud has been recognized by Gartner (News

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NextGen Helps Bring Upgraded Eye Care Services to Minnesota

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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Did Easter Bring iPhone Unlocking Joy for You?

As reported on Friday, AT&T has curiously started to unlock off-contract iPhones, choosing Easter Sunday to kick the service off. Judging from reports online, many users have been successful at getting their handsets freed from Ma Bell’s shackles, while others are still waiting.

MacRumors is reporting that a number of readers in their forums were able to successfully contact AT&T on Easter Sunday and have their out-of-contract iPhone unlocked. Traditionally, carriers are willing to unlock cell phones within months of purchase, assuming your account is in good standing and you’ve been a customer for a certain length of time. The iPhone, however, has never had an officially sanctioned unlock from AT&T, for reasons known only to Apple and the carrier.

That changed over the weekend, with AT&T now accepting requests, both via telephone and online chat. However, some customer service reps had no clue about the procedure, which involves confirming eligibility for a device based on your hardware’s IMEI number and your wireless account information. Apple then whitelists your device at their end, and the next time you connect via iTunes, you’re prompted to do a backup and restore, and the device is then permanently free to use SIM cards around the world.

While a number of folks seem to have pulled this off without a hitch -- many on the same day, with others being told 72 hours or even a random date of April 16 -- we had no such love for our iPhone 3GS. After connecting to tech support via chat and sending them our IMEI number and account details, the rep vanished for two hours, never to return again! After several efforts to get a reply, we finally gave up and will try again at a later date.

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Advances in Technology Bring Entire 1940 Census Online

By Monica Gleberman, Contributing Writer

Advances in technology have helped companies create virtualized worlds enabling them to sync all their data into the cloud. Users can now get their hands on smartphone devices that have applications for just about everything. Now, that technology has helped The National Archives by allowing the company to put the entire 1940’s census online for the first time for free.

This morning, The National Archives, announced it was able to scan the entire census document and put it online at 1940census.archives.gov, granting access to users all over the world. All a user needs is an Internet connection and he/she can search through millions of digitally scanned documents. These documents have been available online before through websites such as Ancestry.com and other genealogy websites. However, all of those required a subscription and only show users one page at a time in line with their search query.

The National Archives group plans on taking advantage of over thousands of volunteers to help complete the project by building a database that permits users to not only search by location, but by name and other more specific details over the next few months.

David Ferriero, National Archives chief, spoke at the launch event in Washington saying this is a big day for The National Archives and the world.

“We now have access to a street-level view of a country in the grips of a depression and on the brink of global way,” said Ferriero referring to the fact that the 1940 census was taken during a hard time in United States history.

Ferriero said 120,000 people helped the organization by collecting information on over 130 million people to include in the census database. Researchers were even able to contact some people that signed the census that are still alive today. This information could help connect families all over the world.

Censuses are used to collect population data of that current year. For example, if you were to look at the first page from the 1940’s census, you could find an entire families history such as the mother, father, if they had any children, when they came to America, what language they spoke, what they did, how much money they made, and even if they rent or own a home. A lot of times these documents are used to help families now trace their history back in time.

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Amazon Looks to Bring 550 Jobs to Lexington with New Call Center

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A development for the state of Kentucky has emerged as a subsidiary arm of Amazon, and is looking to bring a new customer service outlet to the city of Winchester – about 20 miles to the east of Lexington.

The state of Kentucky – along with the rest of Clark County – is looking to offer up to $10.25 million in tax incentives, should they go ahead with plans to bring the customer service center in, and a $250,000 economic development bond to help offset the costs of the expansion. Costs are expected to reach $20 million.

Tax incentives and bonds won't come without costs to Amazon, however, which must create 550 jobs within its first three years of operation. Jobs in question must average an hourly pay of at least $15. But Kentucky's Economic Development Finance Authority projects that once the cost of benefits is factored in, the jobs will pay an average of $20 an hour.

This will no doubt come as welcome news to residents of the area, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics' preliminary numbers put the Lexington-Fayette area of Kentucky at a 7.9 percent unemployment rate.

This is, of course, before the underemployment rate and the rate of those who dropped out of the labor force entirely are considered, which will make the picture necessarily worse and the news of potential new jobs to come all the better.

Amazon has been seen recently as a substantial threat to big-box retailers like Best Buy, and thus jobs with Amazon should bear a note of extra security as Amazon is improving its position as a retailer overall, even in a weak economy with consumer confidence only starting to make a comeback from its lows.

It's not a done deal yet, though, but for the short term Kentucky residents should polish their resumes and get ready for a new arrival, a representative of the new way of shopping.

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Changes at Foxconn Bring Additional Worry, Stress for Workers

As we reported Thursday evening, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) has released the findings of their Foxconn audit, resulting in a reduction of working hours at the Apple supplier and cutbacks in overtime. While the news has advocates for workers’ rights busy patting themselves on the back, the workers in China most affected by the decision are more worried than ever.

Reuters is reporting on worker reaction to the changes at Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer where many of Apple’s biggest hits are assembled. While the focus here in America has been on how Foxconn employees are overworked and underpaid, many of them now have another worry: Even less money thanks to cuts in working hours and overtime.

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White Space Hopes to Bring Reliable Broadband Connectivity to UK's Rural Areas

By Nick Ruble MobilityTechzone Contributing Writer

It’s a well-known fact that broadband services are less available in rural areas, but with the digital dividend from television’s analog to digital transformation, there is a whole new horizon open for exploration. A newly implemented means of broadband delivery, dubbed “White Space”, is in its early stages of testing on the small Scottish Isle of Bute.

This new solution travels through the now-unused UHF band and is capable of delivering speeds upwards of 8Mbits/s – about the average rate of a DSL connection. Traditional hard-wired methods of delivery are impractical in remote areas due to the need for excessive resources.

The farther a cable line is stretched, the weaker the signal gets, which is clearly demonstrated by Bute’s average connection speed of less than 1Mbit/s. Chris Gibbs of BT, the company running the trials, stated, “Although it has the same characteristics as copper – the further you go the worse the signal gets – it goes a bit further, and that's the advantage”

BT warns that this new means of connectivity is still in its early days, but at the same time are seeing promising results. With the already blazing fast speeds of 4G networks though, one has to ask; will White Space really catch on? Sure, it may be the only means of Internet access in a great deal of rural areas, but will there even be enough consumers to support it?

The answers to these questions and many more will be made clear when pricing and conclusive test results are announced, but like BT said, things are looking very promising thus far.

New ideas and methods of broadband deployment are always surfacing, and BT’s White Space solution could very well prove effective. If so, businesses and consumers across the UK would surely benefit – Internet access is becoming a necessity in just about everyone’s lives, and those living in rural areas shouldn’t have to be an exception.

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