http://www.zdnet.com/private-cloud-leads-militarys-charge-towards-virtualisation-7000000798/
I interviewed a member of the royal navy (and now military IT consultant). Fairly interesting stuff. Shift toward private clouds based on standardised appliances with templates for specific needs (mail server / GIS stuff / data) et cetera.
http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/r8i7w/iceland_swaps_windows_for_linux_in_open_source/
I rang up the person running Iceland's open source pilot project and he gave some details on some of the problems the scheme faces, specifically with migrating away from Oracle.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/01/26/amazon-cuts-off-stack-at-the-paas-40094915/
No plans to become a major PaaS vendor, instead AWS wants to be the enabling layer for services like Heroku, EngineYard, and so on.
Calxeda reveal Cortex-A9-based system-on-chip and HP announces evaluation server and product plans.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/it-strategy/2011/10/14/dell-prepares-to-walk-the-tightrope-40094192/
Dell aims to be like IBM but with consumer hardware as well. No other recent company has succeeded in this strategy.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2011/09/10/facebook-google-welcome-to-the-new-feudalism-40093418/
What does the rise of Google and Facebook mean for data sovereignty on the web?
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/hot-topics/graphene-future-it-262211536/
Broad introduction to graphene, a 1-atom-thick allotrope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotrope) of carbon that looks set to succeed Silicon. Multiple articles written by a journalist with a background in physics. [Disclaimer - I work for this publication, though do not regularly cover graphene.]