Tuesday, February 24, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 24/02/2009



Rob Klapper Succeeds Dave Roush as Insurance.com CEO
Klapper has held senior executive positions at 21st Century and Charles Schwab, in addition to his recent CEO role at lifelong learning firm One Day University.
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J.P. Morgan Launches Receivables Edge in Asia Pacific
Clients in the Asia/Pac region will be provided with an integrated, Web-based solution for invoice matching and exception management.
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Sybase Upgrades Sybase IQ Analytic Server IQ 15
The latest version of the column-based business analytics server boasts new tools for data monitoring and management, better encryption, and faster business intelligence processing.
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Four Firms, Including Wipro, Develop a New Model for ECM Auditability: ECM3
Wipro, Hartman, Smigiel and CMS Watch offer a model to break down the complexity of enterprise content management.
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AEGON Selects Towers Perrin’s MoSes Actuarial Modeling Platform
Contract extends existing relationship for use of the MoSes actuarial analysis and reporting platform across the global AEGON enterprise.
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BlackBerry Management Software Rolls Out
BoxTone said its latest monitoring, management, and support software for enterprise BlackBerry handsets can offer better load balances and decreased costs.
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Which Linux Distro And Why?
Starting with basic Ubuntu and working his way through Fedora and Debian, space-saving Puppy Linux, powerful Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and more than a dozen others, our open source expert matches Linux distros to specific needs.
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Jobs Not Expected At Apple Shareholders Meeting
Jobs' absence from the Feb. 25 meeting is likely to highlight the importance of having a succession plan in place for the iconic CEO.
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Amazon Ships Kindle 2 E-Book Reader
Some analysts have suggested that newspapers, magazines, and book publishers, for example, could one day subsidize a low-cost e-reader.
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Vertica Puts Column-Oriented Database In Virtual Machine
The software runs on commodity hardware and becomes a plug-and-play addition to a data center being built out around cloud principles.
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Microsoft Will Not Seek Overpaid Severance
Some of the 1,400 employees laid off by Microsoft last month received a letter asking for the return of money paid by mistake.
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Microsoft Hopes To Train 2 Million In IT By 2012
The company's Elevate America program will offer 1 million vouchers for online coursework that isn't currently free.
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AT&T Spending $1 Billion For Additional Business Services
The money is expected to go toward improving AT&T's virtual private network portfolio and wide area network, and its telepresence, hosting, and digital media services.
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Symbian Gets $630 Million Boost
The European Investment Bank will provide Nokia with a loan to help make the Symbian-based smartphones more competitive.
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Corvil to Provide BT with Network Latency Management within Global Capital Markets
Joint solution allows greater transparency of network latency challenges faced by financial institutions.
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Sprint Gets Rating Downgrade
Fitch Ratings reduced the carrier's rating following a quarter in which Sprint lost 1.3 million subscribers and $1.6 billion.
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Top 20 Cybersecurity Defenses Proposed
The government-private organization guidelines are expected to become baseline best practices for computer security.
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For Serious Business Training, Nothing Beats Computer Games
Cost savings and better retention are behind growing adoption of "serious gaming" for business training.
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ARM Launches Its Smallest 32-Bit Microcontroller
The Cortex-MO processor is a third smaller, more power efficient, and less expensive to make than ARM's previously smallest MCU.
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FirstRain Adds Fixed Income Research to Its Web Search/Report Offerings
Service searches the web for indicators of defaults and downgrade risks that can affect bond value.
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'Guitar Hero' Rocks On To Android
With the introduction of paid applications in the Android Market, a wave of high-profile games may be coming to Google's mobile platform.
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