Tuesday, January 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 27/01/2009



Cisco Seeing Green With EnergyWise Partner Program
The company's outreach to other green-power companies focuses on integrating power management with network devices to monitor and control power usage.
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DTV Switch Delay Approved By Senate
The move pushes the deadline to June 12, giving federal agencies more time to prepare the public for the move from analog to digital television broadcasting.
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IBM Cuts More Than 3,000 Jobs, Workers Claim
Big Blue is shedding positions in software, sales, research, and other departments, an employee group says.
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HedgeOp Awarded US Patent for ComplianceTrakTM Software
ComplianceTrakTM offers cost-efficient tools for staying compliant
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Nation’s Largest Investors Call for ’Green Recovery’
Investors urge congress to support energy efficiency and clean energy in economic stimulus bill
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Software Preserves Network Settings When You Move Virtual Machines
Blade Network Technologies' blade and rack switches now maintain security policies and network settings for virtual machines.
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Hedge Fund Managers Should Expect Greater Scrutiny and Transparency Demands From Institutional Investors
Institutions also to seek enhanced client reporting and communication
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Investment Banking Duo Breaks NYC Subway Riding Record
Two employees of a large investment bank leveraged their quantitative modeling and due diligence skills to develop a plan to visit every subway stop in less than 24 hours.
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Troubled RBS Cuts Irish Bank, Mortgage Units
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Global CIO: Cut Steve Jobs Some Slack
If Apple's guiding force wants to take a leave of absence or keep details of his health private, we must realize that some are given special status.
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Geithner Vows Swift Action as Sworn in at Treasury
Timothy Geithner was sworn in as U.S. Treasury secretary on Monday a little more than an hour after the Senate approved him, and he vowed to move quickly to aid the distressed U.S. economy.
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Columbian Financial Group Goes Live With FIS Software Platform
CFG implements firm's ALIS policy administration platform.
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Britt Glisson Named Chief Administrative Officer of Markel Corporation
Glisson will be responsible for assuring cost-effective operations.
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Mark Mullin Named President of AEGON Americas
New president will be responsible for operations in the U.S., Canada, Latin America.
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Matthew Lanford Named MasterCard’s Senior Business Leader, Europe Prepaid Product Development
Lanford will assume responsibility for innovation, product development, go-to-market strategy and commercialization of the firm's portfolio of prepaid products.
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The PrivateBank and Trust To Deploy Fidelity National Information Services’ ACBS Commercial Lending Solutions
Bank will implement ACBS Origination, Servicing and DataMart solutions.
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NCR Launches Web-Based Service for Management, Processing of Envelope-Free ATM Deposits
NCR APTRA Deposit Gateway is an SaaS solution that enables banks to perform check image processing for envelope-free deposits made at the ATM.
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Netbook Shipments Predicted To Hit 139 Million Units
MIDs were thought to be the next big mobile devices segment, but an unclear usage model continues to confuse the market, according to an analyst report.
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Apple Shipping iLife '09 Tuesday
The most innovative feature in the upgrade is in the iPhoto application, to which Apple has added face-recognition technology.
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VMware Strong In Fourth Quarter, Hedges On 2009
If IT budgets loosen up with an economic turnaround, company execs expect VMware to be a big beneficiary.
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Monster.com Hit With Possible Monster-Sized Data Breach
The company declined to cite the number of affected accounts, raising the possibility that every Monster user could be affected.
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Android App Bumped For Erasing Memory, Contacts
The application was pulled from the Android Market after multiple consumers said it was interfering with G1 handsets and spamming contacts.
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TI Profits Plummet, Chipmaker Cutting 3,400 Jobs
Besides the slow economy, Texas Instruments is reeling from a shift in strategy by some of its top customers to buy products from multiple vendors.
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Microsoft Boosts BI, Backs Away from Performance Management
Dashboarding, scorecarding and analytics are bundled into SharePoint while PerformancePoint and its planning engine reach the end of the line.
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Mac OS X Trojan Found In Pirated Photoshop CS4
About 5,000 people have downloaded the OSX.Trojan.iServices.B-infected, unauthorized software from BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks.
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