Thursday, January 29, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 29/01/2009



Assurant Specialty Property Issues Chase Visa-branded Debit Cards for Claims Settlements
Renters insurance customers can receive advanced claims payments in a Chase Visa-branded debit card, issued by J.P. Morgan.
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SAP Weathers The Downturn
Fourth quarter sales jump 8% on strength of services revenues.
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Satyam Taps Goldman To Explore Sale
Outsourcer looks for a buyer in effort to emerge from cooked books scandal.
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SEPA Kicks Off in EU—With Unintended Fraud Risk
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Cindy Cole Named CIO of Alliance Bank
Cole will assume responsibility for the overall operations of the bank.
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Oracle Financial Services Software Launches New Oracle Reveleus Market Risk Release
Release adds new modeling, analysis and reporting capabilities.
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National Bank of Kuwait Goes Live With Level Four Software
Implementation aims to drive ATM innovation.
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Fidelity National Information Services, CUNA Mutual Team for Solution for Credit Unions
New technology aims to help credit unions manage plastic card fraud.
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Visual Studio Developers Get PHP IDE Upgrade
Jcx.Software has released VS.Php 2.6, an integrated development environment for Microsoft Visual Studio developers who want to work in PHP.
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CIG Kozep-Europai Biztosito Zrt. Goes Live with TCS BaNCS Insurance
Insurer will launch unit-linked life insurance business.
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Overcoming Barriers to Integrated Risk Management
Effectively managing multiple risk types requires the ability to marshal diverse information assets and deliver them to decision makers as actionable intelligence.
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Nokia Fixes 'Curse Of Silence' Exploit
The vulnerability could crash millions of Nokia handsets' SMS system with a single malformed text message.
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Web Malware Infects Fast, Dies Young
The number of new infected Web sites grew by 66%, from 100,000 to 200,000 per day to 200,000 to 300,000 per day in the past three months, according to AVG Technologies.
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Salesforce.com Sets Right Vision In Customer Service, Analyst Says
Among the most important achievements in the recently launched Service Cloud is the recognition that Google and other search engines may well be "the most prominent customer service channel in existence," Datamonitor says
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Oracle Audit Vault Monitors Competing Systems, Including DB2
The software now supports monitoring of Sybase versions 12.5 and 15 as well as IBM's DB2 version 8.2 or 9.5 running on Linux, Unix, and Windows.
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Google Aims To Expose Network Meddling
Vint Cerf puts out the word that Google's Measurement Lab will make it more difficult for telecoms to degrade or block apps such as BitTorrent or Skype.
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8 Mobile Technologies To Watch
Many of the improvements expected to make an impact in the next two years will soon be integrated into smartphones, research firm Gartner reports.
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DTV Delay Bill Torpedoed By Congress
House Republicans marshaled sufficient opposition to legislation to postpone the switch to digital TV to June.
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Kaplan Compliance Solutions Unveils Client Concierge
The Concierge interacts with the relevant departments within KCS, monitoring activities related to the client, as well as ensuring the client is kept informed about regulatory changes affecting their business.
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Financial IT Budgets Dip for the First Time, By 3.7%, But Will Quickly Rebound
Large-scale SOA projects are out, risk management and self-service technology initiatives are in, says TowerGroup's latest report.
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Amazon Kindle E-Book Reader To Get Facelift
Tech enthusiasts are taking their best guesses as to what the online retailer has planned for the 2.0 version of the popular gadget.
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Microsoft: Explorer 8 'Complete And Done'
The software maker says its latest browser is close to final form, but users would like some improvements.
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Opera Finalizes Browser For Android
The release version of Opera Mini for Android includes the ability to save files on an SD card, resources for video playback, and other improvements.
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