Thursday, March 5, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 05/03/2009



BCBS of Kansas City Develops Video Communications
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City aims to engage group employers, individual customers and brokers with video communications from Benefitfocus.
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Internet Service Bus Unites Java, .Net Worlds
Open Source Business Foundation platform puts developers on a bus to the clouds by allowing access online apps as a service through an integrated Web-based application.
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Judge Orders Ex-Qwest CEO Nacchio To Prison
Former Baby Bell chief Joe Nacchio is to begin serving a six-year sentence this month at a minimum-security facility in Pennsylvania.
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HP Services Target Cohesive Information Management Strategy
Business Intelligence Solutions unit bolsters MDM, data quality and data governance offerings.
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Job Seekers Targeted By Identity Thieves
Fake job ads are up 345% over the past three years, according to one U.K. financial security association.
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Chubb IT Employees Win Mega Millions Lottery
Group of 10 commercial lines IT professionals, including CIO Todd Ellis, will split $216 million jackpot.
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Seven Merrill Execs Subpoenaed on Pay
New York state's top legal officer issued subpoenas on Wednesday to seven executives who received tens of millions of dollars in 2008 pay from Merrill Lynch before it was taken over by Bank of America.
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WellPoint Drug Benefits Business Up for Sale FT
WellPoint Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer by membership, has put its pharmacy benefits management (PBM) business up for auction, the Financial Times reported.
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Obama Names Federal CIO
Federal CIO, Federal CTO, Information officer, Organizational structure, CIO, CTO, Technology, Vivek Kundra, Kundra, Barack Obama, Obama, OMB, Office of Management and Budget,
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Obama Begins Health Reform Drive with White House Forum
President Barack Obama takes on healthcare reform at a White House forum Thursday, seeking to design an overhaul of a costly and inefficient system he believes is threatening the U.S. economy.
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SunTrust Names Robert Blair Head of Commercial Card Services
SVP will oversee corporate, purchasing and prepaid card programs, as well as SunTrust's Enterprise Spend Platform technology.
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Swiss FinMin Says Country’s Banking Secrecy Intact
The Swiss banking system respects privacy but does not protect fraud, said finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz.
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Vizioncore Upgrades Virtual Machine Monitor, Manager
The unit of Quest Software also upgraded vOptimizer Pro, a product that automates the matching of a Windows virtual machine disk space to its actual needs.
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How Microsoft Keeps Windows 7 Development Under Control
While a number of prerelease builds have leaked, Windows 7 hasn't been the start-and-stop, leak-heavy development cycle that Windows Vista was.
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Smartphones Shine In Otherwise Dim Handset Market
The opportunity for higher growth exists because carriers' high-speed 3G networks have taken smartphones beyond businesses to the mainstream market.
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Skype To Give Away Audio Codec
By offering its Silk audio codec for free, Skype is trying to get its VoIP service on as many devices as possible.
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YouTube Wrestles With Scammer-Generated Content
One ad, for example, offers stolen credit card numbers that purportedly have been skimmed from cruise liners, casinos, and hotels, with PINs captured by a covert camera.
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HP CEO Sees No Demand Improvement This Year
Mark Hurd said he expects weak conditions in the January quarter to linger and promises more cost cutting.
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Some Tech Startups Say 'No' To Venture Capitalists
At the DEMO show, a select few who can afford to starve themselves of funding say they'll plan to hold out.
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Are Integrated Graphics Processors Headed For Extinction?
The trend is not expected to affect the add-in market for graphics cards that boost graphics processing in higher-end PCs, analysts with Jon Peddie Research suggest.
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Pirate Bay Awaiting Court Verdict In Copyright Case
Lawyers for the BitTorrent site argued in a Swedish court that the business is legitimate.
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Santander Starts Global Student Card Roll-Out
A Spanish university is for new EMV chip-cards, for ID, access and payments.
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U.S. House Panel Sets Financial Reform Agenda
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee plans hearings in March to examine mark-to-market accounting, systemic risk and other issues as it seeks to find ways to reshape financial regulation.
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Google Releases Finance App For Android
The application gives users on-the-go access to stock prices, market data, portfolio information, and financial news on an Android-powered smartphone.
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