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• Opinion: Wait, so why do we need phones again?

  Phone service is obsolete, says Mike Elgan and wireless carriers are holding him back. Here's why he wants Google to be his phone company.

• Microsoft may not want smashing Surface RT tablet sales

  The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device?

• Startup debuts with cloud-based open-source identity and access management software

  Startup ForgeRock makes its official debut today with cloud-based open-source identity and access management (IAM) software called Open Identity Stack intended to be used by enterprises and service providers to enable centralized provisioning and access management to enterprise, mobile and software-as-a-service applications.

• 'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud

  Originally billed as the world's largest telecommunications purchase, the U.S. government's Networx contract is turning out to be chump change for the five carriers involved in the deal. Halfway through its 10-year term, the contract has driven around $2 billion in revenue compared to projections as high as $34 billion for this stage of the program.

• Cloud bridges, gateways and brokers for external cloud deployment

  Originally used as an inexpensive alternative to quickly deploy services outside the realm of IT, cloud computing is quickly becoming a de facto standard for new application resources. The challenge is how to manage those resources transparently. The cloud should be an extension of the internal data center, and cloud bridges, gateways and brokers are all components that IT should focus on for connecting to their external cloud deployment.

• Origin Energy Retail IT transformation progressing

  Origin Energy has flagged that its retail business transformation is progressing, with 396 IT roles in the Retail business now outsourced to Wipro.