Monday, February 23, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 23/02/2009



Vertica tailors its analytic database for VMware (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Vertica packaged its Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database as a software appliance and unwrapped the bundle on Monday.
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Borland offers release readiness for software (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Borland Software is unveiling on Monday TeamInspector, a "release readiness" system that reveals metrics to give development managers evidence that software is ready for customer use.
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Test your Web IQ (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The World Wide Web has had the greatest impact on our lives of any technology since the personal computer itself. But Web 2.0 didn't happen overnight -- the history of this radical medium spans 17 years of servers, sites, and software. Think you know all there is to know? Test your Web literacy with this pop quiz packed with tech tips and trivia. But watch out! Some of the answers may not be what you expect.
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ZoneAlarm Releases Extreme Security 'Super Suite' (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Check Point Software has released ZoneAlarm Extreme Security, a "super suite" combining all the features of ZoneAlarm Internet Security 2009 with ZoneAlarm ForceField, a virtualization-based browser protection solution.
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Adobe CEO'S 2008 compensation valued at $16.4M (AP)
AP - Shantanu Narayen, the chief executive of Acrobat software maker Adobe Systems Inc., was awarded compensation valued at $16.4 million in fiscal 2008, although the vast majority of that was in stock options that currently have little value.
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Study: Federal Gov't Can Save Billions in IT Spending (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. government could save billions of dollars by moving to more open-source software, cloud computing and virtualization, a recent study suggests.
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iWay Software enters EIM fray (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Building on its ETL and integration history, iWay Software brought forth this week a new enterprise information management suite and two add-on products that expand the EIM capabilities.
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Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Encountering Malicious PDFs (PC World)
PC World - Security companies are warning of a new flaw in two Adobe Systems programs that could compromise a PC merely by opening a malicious PDF (Portable Document Format) file.
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EA Will Bring Alice Back To a Dark Wonderland (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Gaming software developer Electronic Arts brought a little spice to the D.I.C.E. summit Thursday. The Redwood City, Calif-based company is teaming up with American McGee and Shanghai-based Spicy Horse to develop a new game.
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Intel Eyes Cloud Computing With New Hardware, Software (PC World)
PC World - Intel is making a push into cloud computing with forthcoming changes in its Nehalem server line aimed at large data-center deployments.
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Suit over Vista marketing no longer class action (AP)
AP - A lawsuit claiming people were fleeced by the way Microsoft Corp. advertised some Windows XP computers as capable of running the new Vista operating system is no longer a class action, a federal judge has ruled.
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Studios Force Hulu To End Boxee Connection (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Major studios have put an end to watching Hulu on a television through Boxee software. Boxee lets consumers convert computers into media centers.
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Could the Recession Be Good for Enterprise Software? (PC World)
PC World - The recession has companies worldwide scrambling to rein in technology costs with desperate vendors responding in turn, offering deep license discounts, providing low-cost financing and proclaiming ever more shrilly that their products in fact save customers money.
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Class action status denied in Microsoft Vista case (Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. federal court denied class action status to a lawsuit accusing Microsoft Corp of misleading buyers about which computers could run expanded features that were part of the Windows Vista operating system.
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Offline Gmail Coming Soon on iPhone, Android? (PC World)
PC World - Google's VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra, demonstrated on Wednesday a mobile version of Gmail designed for both the iPhone and Google Android phones. The Web-based application lets users access their email offline and also brings support for Gmail's labels feature. What is really unique about this application is that it is browser based and requires no mobile software application downloads.
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Skype to be included on some Nokia smart phones (AP)
AP - Skype's software for making free and cheap phone calls over the Internet will be built in to some Nokia Corp. smart phones.
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Microsoft Kills Equipt Subscription Offering (PC World)
PC World - After offering it only since July, Microsoft is discontinuing its Equipt package of software and services.
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Garmin-Asus Unveil Their First New GPS Smartphones (PC World)
PC World - The new Garmin-Asus venture announced its first two smartphone offerings at the GSM Mobile World Congress and true to earlier promises, they each use a different operating systems, one Linux and the other Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.
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Opera: We Can Fill In iPhone, T-Mobile Gaps (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Opera Software's big news here at Mobile World Congress was Opera Turbo, a new server-side Web browsing accelerator. But at a sit-down with PCMag.com, Opera CEO Jon Tetzchner talked abut Opera's missing pieces: the iPhone, Palm's WebOS, and T-Mobile USA.
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Outsourcer Aragon buys Krugle (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Software outsourcing company Aragon Consulting Group has acquired Krugle, which has specialized in code search and analysis.
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