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• RightNow rewrites SaaS contract rules

  Software as a service (SaaS) company RightNow has changed its contracts in a bid to make it easier for businesses to buy its services. The company...  ....

• Tories promise to learn from government IT disasters

  A Conservative shadow minister has said that a Tory government would learn the lessons from past IT catastrophes, although he didn't go as far as promising...  ....

• Government outsources pension scheme to TCS, but data will remain in UK

  The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA), which was created by the government to administer pension schemes, expects to cut its software development...  ....

• PA Consulting offers free sourcing advice

  Outsourcing services supplier PA Consulting has launched a free online service for top executives at global companies to answer their questions about sourcing.  ....

• Outsourcing looms large in coming council job cuts

  Local government IT will be hit hard as councils cut thousands of jobs in a bid to slash operating costs or turn to outsourcing as an easier way of reducing...  ....

• BT and Vodafone lead UK IT R&D spending

  Telecoms and software companies are among the UK's top R&D spenders, a government report has revealed.  ....

• Rackspace Hires to Align With MySQL Offshoot (PC World)

  PC World - A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.  ....

• WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties (PC World)

  PC World - Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.  ....

• Rivals Report Boost from Microsoft's Browser Ballot (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - Mozilla and Opera Software say they are seeing an uptick in demand for their browsers in the wake of Microsoft's launch of a choice ballot in Europe. Mozilla CEO John Lilly told The New York Times over the weekend that more than 50,000 Firefox downloads have already occurred via direct   ....

• Motorola Releases Two New Android Smartphones (NewsFactor)

  NewsFactor - Motorola is placing two new bets on the open-source Android operating system with the release of its Backflip and Devour smartphones. The uniquely designed Backflip began selling through AT&T Wireless late last week, and the Detour is now available from Verizon Wireless.  ....

• Mozilla's Drumbeat Beats to an Open Web (PC Magazine)

  PC Magazine - In Mozilla's world, the Firefox Web browser is but a mere battle in a larger war, one that's aimed at punching holes through closed, proprietary Web platforms of all kinds. What's on the horizon? "Drumbeat".  ....

• Group Seeks to Open Source Data-center Design (PC World)

  PC World - A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.  ....