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Outsourcing and offshoring of IT infrastructure is emerging as one of the key growth engines for the global technology services

industry and it is estimated that the remote infrastructure management (RIM) market is likely to exceed $8.6 billion in India by 2010. Hewlett Packard (HP), the global technology giant, will be scaling up the India operations for its IT infrastructure outsourcing (IO) business leveraging on the scale and labour arbitrage that the country offers, said Ludger Rohlmann , VP, ITO delivery operations, HP, in an interview.

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Andrew Cuomo, attorney general for the state of New York, has launched an investigation into the marketing practices of 22 e-tailers, including Staples, 1-800-Flowers.com and Orbitz.

Cuomo’s office said Wednesday it issued subpoenas to the merchants and requested information about the retailers’ relationships with three marketing companies, Webloyalty, Affinion and Vertrue. These firms have allegedly misled consumers for years into joining membership programs and paying monthly fees.

Webloyalty and the other companies are so-called post-transaction marketers that have compiled a long history of consumer complaints and class-action lawsuits. Typically, the three firms present pop-up ads to online shoppers when they’re finalizing a transaction. Some consumers have said the ads appear to be a discount coupon from the retailer.

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The space shuttle program will begin marking off milestones as the fleet prepares for its final year before hitting the mothballs. The first of five flights in 2010 kicks off with a final night launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Feb. 7 on a mission to the International Space Station to deliver the Tranquility node, the final module of the U.S. portion of the space station.

With the space shuttle fleet currently scheduled for retirement at the end of the year, Endeavour begins the farewell tour with a Feb. 7 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the ISS (International Space Shuttle). Five shuttle missions are planned in 2010, with the last flight currently targeted for launch in September.

The flight will be Endeavour’s 24th mission and the 33rd shuttle flight dedicated to station assembly and maintenance. Liftoff is planned for 4:39 a.m., EST, making it the final scheduled space shuttle night launch.

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Search-engine company Startpage launched a service allowing users concerned about privacy to carry out Web searches and click on linked pages without being identified, tracked or recorded.

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Unlike mainstream search engines that gather commercially valuable information about user behavior, privately held Startpage (www.startpage.com) has focused on privacy since 2005.

Startpage — also known as Ixquick outside the United States and Britain — had already offered private searching, but users would leave the company’s protection when they clicked on a search result and entered a third-party website.

The new service offers use of a Startpage proxy that means the user is invisible to all websites, though pages load more slowly since Startpage must first retrieve the contents and then redisplay them.

“My wake-up call came last year,” says Katherine Albrecht, who runs U.S. media relations and marketing for Startpage and who says she noticed Google Inc had installed a program monitoring users who typed in terms indicating they had influenza — and was sharing the information with the U.S. Center for Disease Control.

“I had been a privacy advocate for 10 years, but even so I was using Google just like everybody else,” she said.

The chief executive of Google, which dominates the global Web search market, outraged critics last month with comments in a TV interview. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Eric Schmidt said in a interview on news channel CNBC.

“The reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time,” he said. “We are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.”

In 2006, however, Google was the only major search engine to reject a U.S. Justice Department subpoena to hand over data, saying the demand violated the privacy of users’ searches and its own trade secrets.

Rivals Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc complied. Startpage does not keep information about its users on file, so it could not be forced to hand anything over.

Startpage says it has been profitable for the last five years. It is funded by advertising including sponsored links that are matched to the content of Websites and searches, but not to user profiles.

Startpage, which was founded in New York and is owned by private Dutch company Surfboard Holding BV, does not publish user numbers but says it had served over 1.2 billion searches as of December 2009.

It also competes with Infospace’s Dogpile, WebCrawler and MetaCrawler in metasearch, or returning results from multiple search engines. It is also exploring ways to offer private email.

Apple stands ready to challenge Google in the cloud computing wars with the new iPad, Gartner analysts say. The iPad is geared to provide the most compelling mobile Internet experience users have seen to date, but Google later in 2010 is expected to bring its own vision for mobile Web consumption in the form of netbooks based on its Chrome Operating System.

Apple’s iPad is positioned to challenge Google’s plans for cloud computing if the tablet PC catches on, analysts believe.

The iPad aims to provide the most compelling Internet experience users have seen to date, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaiming that holding the tablet is like “holding the Internet in your hand.”

The 9.7-inch IPS screen displays crisp high-definition video, as well other content such as games, e-books and e-mail for users to consume from the Web or the cloud. Author Nicholas Carr, who watches the cloud computing space closely, summed up the iPad:

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Apple’s new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, a mobile security expert said on Thursday.

For one, if the iPad employs encryption the same way the iPhone does, sensitive personal data, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, could be retrieved and viewed, says Daniel Hoffman, chief technology officer at SMobile Systems, which sells mobile security software.

“The problem with the iPhone security encryption is it is fundamentally worthless,” he said. “It can be easily bypassed.”

Secondly, if iPad users get their apps from the Apps Store, they are at risk of getting the occasional bad apple, Hoffman said, noting that there have been malicious apps found in the store.

In addition, the device is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks like any other device that uses unsecured Wi-Fi networks, he said.

Google Unveils Click-to-Call Mobile Ads

Google launched a new type of mobile ads Thursday that let users click to call local numbers for paid search ads, MediaPost reports. Here’s how it works: the phone numbers appear as an additional line of text, either at the top or bottom of the search query page. That means users can see an ad, and if they’re interested, initiate a call to the business immediately in the same way they’d click through to view the Web site, the report said. The ads work on iPhone and Android-compatible smartphones. This builds on a recent development that lets advertisers specify exactly which phones run the paid search ads. Obviously these developments benefit advertisers more than end-users like us, but it’s helpful to keep an eye on what they’re up to–especially if they’re about to cross the line and become intrusive.

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Microsoft signaled during a Jan. 28 earnings call that a variety of initiatives, including Office 2010, Azure and Project Natal, would help power its revenues throughout 2010. However, Microsoft executives seemed less forthcoming about the possible debut of Windows Mobile 7, the smartphone operating system that could make or break the company’s plans in the mobile arena, deferring instead to an announcement during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Microsoft also stated that netbooks and a possible Windows 7 Service Pack were non-factors in affecting the company’s Windows 7 revenue.

Microsoft is betting its success in 2010 on a variety of initiatives, including the Azure cloud platform, the Project Natal gaming application, and Office 2010. However, executives during the company’s Jan. 28 earnings call remained elusive about Windows Mobile 7, the long-rumored smartphone operating system that could potentially mean success or failure for Microsoft in that space.

Peter Klein, Microsoft chief financial officer, promoted both Azure and Natal during the earnings call, referring to the former as the cloud platform that would provide developers with a “smooth transition to the cloud with tools and processes,” and the latter as something that “will energize this generation’s gaming and entertainment experience starting this holiday season.”

Klein proved less effuse about Windows Mobile, though, suggesting only that “the next version of Windows Mobile” would be talked about by the company during February’s World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.