Saturday, January 17, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 17/01/2009


MacWorld Aftermath: A Closer Look At iLife, iWork
The most overlooked news at Macworld was about the significant upgrades to iLife, iWork, and the MacBook Pro, Apple's workhorse of a notebook. Our Mac expert hits the highlights.
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CIO Prescription: How IT Is Riding Out The Recession
Some companies are cutting their IT budgets in response to the recession, while others are focusing on smart spending to be ready for the recovery.
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Ram Charan On The CIOs Role
The business adviser talks with us about how CIOs must take action amid the current economic turmoil.
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UPS: Positioned For The Long Haul
Some quick-return projects are moving up the priority list, but much of the delivery company's $1 billion in IT spending positions it for an upturn.
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How Visualization Changes App Dev At UPS
It helps IT teams spot missed business requirements sooner.
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Innovators & Influencers
A SaaS trailblazer, a REST activist, a firewall revisionist, even a president will all shape technology in the coming year.
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InformationWeek Analytics: An Inconvenient Data Center
Wild price swings in the energy market and Al Gore have likely raised the green concept to your CEO's desk. This InformationWeek Analytics Report provides a high-level overview of the state of green IT initiatives to help you assess your current footprint and the options available.
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Publisher's Note: Magazine Redesign Adds Deeper Analysis
We listened to you, our readers, and rebuilt the magazine around what you told us you want.
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Global CIO: Align IT With Customers, Not Business
CIOs who can't unshackle themselves from the bonds of internally focused thinking and execution won't survive.
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Down To Business: Is Satyam Really India's Enron?
Having interviewed both companies' chief executives months before their fall, I feel more qualified than most to evaluate that comparison.
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Practical Analysis: Not Just Another Analyst Play
InformationWeek Analytics offers something you can't get anywhere else.
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Startup Of The Week: EchoSign
EchoSign combines SaaS and electronic signatures to make it easier for companies to sign contracts and close deals.
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Rolling Review: Microsoft Hyper-V
It's hard to argue with free--unless you need more than server virtualization basics.
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After Satyam Crisis, Survey Shows Outsourcing Customers' Concerns
Six of 10 say the financial scandal raises new concerns
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Ethernet Technology Grows Up--And Out
Developments on several fronts could give iSCSI the power to muscle in on higher-end Fibre Channel SANs.
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CIO Profiles: Michael Manchisi, CTO, MasterCard Global Technology And Operations
"Don't underestimate the importance of collaboration, alignment, and internal partnership," he advises.
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Satyam Crisis Puts Indian IT Industry--And Customers--On Edge
Customers sweat their contingency plans, while rival providers hope it won't taint them
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Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives Plagued By Failures
The problems follow by about two months issues found with Seagate's 1.5-TB Barracuda 7200.11 drive.
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Can Obama Keep His BlackBerry?
Joe Hagin, former deputy White House chief of staff, says keeping the BlackBerry may wind up being more of a political issue than a technical one.
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MSI's $240 Desktop Powered By Dual-Core Intel Atom
The system runs on 35 watts of power, which is less than the average light bulb.
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DTV Switch Debuts In Hawaii To Mixed Reviews
Hawaii has an estimated 20,000 consumers with old analog TV sets.
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Nearly 9 Million PCs Hit By 'Downandup' Worm
The network worm is a bunch of malware variants that target older Windows machines and changes itself, or is changed by its authors, to prevent signature-based detection.
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NC Global Investment Servicing Launches Full-Service Processing for Exchange Traded Funds
Latest offering combines robust capabilities with regulatory administration expertise
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Northern Trust Launches Implementation of Automated Solution for Syndicated Bank Loans
Clients to gain improved data integrity, increased processing speed and enhanced reporting
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Thomson Reuters Launches News Analytics for Trading and Risk Management
Machine-rreadable news adds real-time analysis on key news events
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