Tuesday, April 7, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 07/04/2009



SAP Upgrades BusinessObjects Edge BI Products
Business intelligence package for small firms and midsized companies gains natural-language query, Oracle integration kits and performance management options.
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Orbitz Waives Some Fees As Booking Battle Heats Up
Various promotions may lure new customers, but they also could erode revenue streams, experts warn.
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Markets Appear Ready for "Big Bang" in CDS Market
Since both sell-side and buy-side firms can accommodate new credit default swap protocols that take effect today, the bang may be more of a pop.
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Three More Satyam Officials Arrested
List of employees connected to outsourcer's accounting scandal is growing.
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Auto Club Insurance Acquires MEEMIC
Auto Club Insurance Association (ACIA) has announced it has acquired MEEMIC Insurance Company, previously owned by GMAC Financial Services.
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Virtual Roundtable: Enterprise Content Management
Insurers increasingly have to face the challenge of meeting security requirements while at the same time keeping pace with new methods of sharing and creating content.
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Survey: U.S. CEO Confidence Falls to Record Low
U.S. chief executives' confidence in the economy fell further in the first quarter, setting a second consecutive all-time low, according to a Business Roundtable survey released Tuesday.
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Delos Insurance Group Names Alex Hammett SVP, Chief Actuary
Hammett comes to Delos from Arch Insurance, where he led an effort to build the P&C carrier's corporate actuarial department and enterprise risk management modeling framework.
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Debate Over Cell Phone Use On Planes Heats Up
Even as U.S. airlines begin to install Wi-Fi on planes, legislation to outlaw cell phone calls on flights has been introduced.
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Corporate Policies as Important as Software in Content Management
While building a content solution from scratch presents massive challenges, a sound policy should be created by every organization.
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Security and Privacy Critical With Content-Rich Applications
Content management can ease burden of regulation, and should positively affect security and privacy concerns.
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Metadata a Key Component of Successful Content Management
Organizations should employ metadata definitions and uses that are specific to their business goals.
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NACHA NEWS: Bluepoint Unveils its Consumer RDC Offering
Bluepoint Solutions now provides financial institutions with a solution that can enable consumer customers to remotely deposit checks from home.
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Dell, Perot Partner On Health Care IT, Services
The combined effort will deliver desktop, storage, and server hardware and medical information systems.
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AP Preps Legal Battle Against Online News Aggregators
The AP has issued licenses to Google, Yahoo, and others to use some of its news content, while newspapers generally have not.
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Merrill Lynch Developing Private, Public Cloud Initiatives in Parallel
The firm's chief technology architect, Jeff Birnbaum, explains its cloud strategy.
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NACHA NEWS: iPay Upgrades its e-Bill Pay and e-Invoicing Solution
Biz 2.0 provides small and midsize businesses with electronic bill payment and invoicing solutions.
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Google Showing Local Search Results By Default
Users of mobile devices can be located via cell tower triangulation or GPS data, if their phones include a GPS module.
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AT&T, Labor Talks Continue As Strike Threat Looms
The two sides are also trying to hammer out agreements related to the status of worker positions being lost because of the shift of subscribers from landlines to wireless.
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Apple Updates iTunes With HD Movie Rentals
Before the update, HD movies could only be rented through the Apple TV set-top box.
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Study Shows Promise of Prepaid Cards for Underbanked
Consumers' first accounts of use very favorable, in CFSI, NBPCA survey.
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Health IT Is Set To Grow, And Consolidate
Interest in the health IT sector swells ahead of the government's $20 billion funding to modernize the U.S. healthcare industry's record-keeping system.
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Facebook, Microsoft Partner To Fight Koobface Worm
The Koobface virus, which spreads through social networking sites, has been added to Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool.
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Feds Tap Sun For Healthcare IT Despite Uncertain Future
Health and Human Services will use Sun software to help fulfill Obama's e-health promise.
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'South Park,' 'SpongeBob,' Riding Netflix's Stream
The deal marks an expansion of Netflix's partnership with MTV.
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