Wednesday, January 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (iTNews Australia) 21/01/2009


Antitrust claim lobbed at IBM
IBM could soon find itself fending off antitrust accusations in the EU.
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Intel and Citrix partner on virtual clients
Intel and Citrix are aiming to make client systems easier to secure and manage by virtualising the user environment and linking it to a Citrix-based management infrastructure, the Citrix Desktop Delivery Solution.
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Android engineer jumps ship
One of the key engineers responsible for Google’s Android operating system has decided to leave the company.
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RIM begins stocking Blackberry application store
Research In Motion (RIM) is opening its doors to would-be Blackberry application developers.
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Google to halt Print Ads program for newspapers
Google said on Tuesday it would halt its Print Ads program on Feb. 28 because the program to help newspapers make more money in online advertising sales was not working
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EFTel in the dark over IMTV ADSL customer cutover plans
EFTel’s wholesale arm, DFT Wholesale, has revealed there has been â€کno discussions’ with IMTV to churn its customer base to EFTel.
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Data management will be priority in 2009
Changes relating to different aspects of data management have been highlighted as key trends in the IT industry for 2009 in a report by consultancy Deloitte.
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Open source developers take to the cloud
As many as 40 per cent of developers working on open source projects plan to offer their applications as web services hosted by cloud providers, according to the latest figures from Evans Data.
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Fujitsu to launch zero-watt PC
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has made a number of announcements ahead of this year's Cebit technology trade show in Hanover in March, including what it describes as a zero-watt PC.
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Qualcomm buys handheld business assets from AMD
Qualcomm has acquired graphics and multimedia technology assets, including intellectual property and resources, from AMD's handheld business.
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Cisco to sell servers with virtualisation - NY Times
Cisco Systems plans to start selling servers equipped with virtualisation software as early as March, The New York Times reported on Monday, a move that could position it for tough competition with Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM.
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Music industry urged to embrace the Internet
The music industry needs to learn from the "dark side of the Internet" that has so decimated its business if it is to ever regain the upper hand in the fight against piracy.
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7-Eleven buys SAP for store-level reports
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has gone live with a new SAP business intelligence (BI) system in an attempt to improve store-level reporting in Australia.
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Jetstar extends project management outsourcing deal
Jetstar’s CIO Stephen Tame has espoused the need for businesses to run leaner in order to keep IT projects on-track, as the low-budget carrier extended an outsourced project management deal for a further two years.
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Value of UK tech deals jumps 10 per cent
A strong performance by the UK technology sector last year helped to push global deals to respectable levels in 2008, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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HSBC steps up fraud detection
News that HSBC is introducing technology to screen all card transactions for potential fraud has been broadly welcomed by experts as a necessary step in the fight against rising card fraud.
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Mobile users put off by complex set-up
Setting up a new mobile phone is a frustrating and annoying process for many users, according to a recent survey by mobile device management firm Mformation.
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IMTV ADSL business suspended over Internode legal dispute
Sydney-based ISP IMTV said it has shut down its ADSL service â€کtemporarily’ while it seeks to resolve a legal dispute with Internode over use of the â€کExtreme’ brand and colour orange on its website.
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Skype joins hands with IBM
Skype announced today its plans to integrate its services with LotusLive – IBM’s new cloud service, in a bid to add more real-time communications to the website and make collaboration in the cloud even easier.
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Belkin grovels after paying for positive reviews
Maker of electronic gadgets Belkin got caught offering to pay punters for posting positive reviews of its products.
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