Tuesday, March 10, 2009

IT News HeadLines (iTNews Australia) 10/03/2009



SAP and CSC win slice of Superpartners $70m revamp
Fund administrator Superpartners is pushing ahead with a new SAP ERP system as part of a $70 million investment in new systems, processes and operational improvements.
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Evanscorp upgrades performance review application
NSW ISV Evanscorp has updated the workflow, security and multilingual capabilities of its Remunerate employee compensation management solution.
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Telstra, Optus stay out of Arbor Atlas alliance
Nextgen is the sole Australian contributor of anonymous traffic data to Arbor Networks’ global Atlas Internet monitoring system, although Telstra and Optus could join at a later date.
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Budde: Farewell Sol, Telstra's liability
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and Chairman Don McGauchie are "liabilities" in terms of the carrier's potential, according to a new research note by telecommunications analyst Paul Budde.
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Taiwanese leak on new Apple netbook
A report in a Taiwanese newspaper is the strongest clue yet that Apple will be selling a netbook by the end of the year.
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US Cybersecurity chief steps down
Beckstrom resigns post as doubt over agency's role lingers.
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Google Docs leaks private data online
Google has admitted that some users of its Google Docs online word processing service may have had their documents shared with unauthorised users.
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Seagate and AMD show off 6Gbps SATA drives
Hard disk specialist Seagate and chipmaker AMD have unveiled the first SATA hard drive capable of running at a transfer speed of 6Gb per second.
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Netbooks open door to Windows alternatives
As netbooks surge in popularity, open-source Linux-based operating systems have established a toehold on the low-cost, stripped-down computers as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows.
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CeBIT deemed a hit, despite recession
There is an air of confidence in Hannover, despite the number of exhibitors and visitors at this year's CeBIT conference dropping 20 per cent on last year.
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Telstra upgrading to 100Mbps cable in Melbourne
Telstra has shrugged off its exclusion from the National Broadband Network to invest $300 million upgrading its cable network.
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Atlassian builds Elastic Bamboo
Aussie Web 2.0 pioneers Atlassian have released a new version of the Bamboo continuous integration environment that allows users to run software builds in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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NSW Government upgrades shared ECM systems
NSW Government shared services provider ServiceFirst will roll out an Objective enterprise content management system to around 1,200 users across multiple agencies.
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Insects help Defence strike moving land targets
Aussie engineers are applying insect vision and navigation techniques to enable airborne defence systems to acquire, track and strike moving targets more accurately.
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Smartphone sales to soar as app stores proliferate
Mobile users are increasingly turning to complex multimedia-centric applications, and smartphones will account for 23 per cent of all new handsets sold by 2013, according to Juniper Research.
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Costs skyrocket in the battle against spam
The average company could be wasting over US$180,000 a year in lost productivity because of unsolicited email, according to security giant McAfee.
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BMW aims to put rocket science in your car
Engineers at BMW's high tech experimental lab in California are attempting to adapt a thermoelectric system that NASA scientists employ to help power their deep space probes, BMW's director of vehicle integration told Reuters.
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Inventor says Google settles voicemail patent claim
Google has agreed to settle an intellectual property claim brought by serial inventor Judah Klausner, who has won settlements in the past from Apple, Skype and LG Electronics, Klausner said on Monday.
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NetApp storage efficiency guarantee debunked
EMC has dismissed competitor NetApp’s â€کStorage Efficiency Guarantee’ as a shallow marketing stunt, governed by conditions that make it pointless for most organisations.
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iPrimus could beat Government to Internet filters
iPrimus has indicated it may not wait for the Government to introduce a clean feed and that it may re-introduce an opt-in service for customers if there is sufficient demand.
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