Friday, April 24, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 24/04/2009



Windows 7 App Testing Starts In May
Microsoft's Tech Ed conference will feature a production environment where users can test business software on the new OS.
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Obama Warns Credit Card Issuers on "Sharp Practice"
Unfair terms and conditions are worsening consumers' indebtedness, President says in industry meeting.
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Former CIOs Face Tough Job Market
As insurers offer fewer senior technology positions to more applicants, consulting work may be a good way for unemployed CIOs to ride out a tough economy — especially as it often leads to a permanent position.
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Stress Tests May Stress Banks’ Ability to Raise Funds
Continuing growth from bad assets will haunt tested banks' efforts to convince investors to chip in.
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Infobright Upgrades Query Speed by Extending SQL Support
Solaris and Sun storage support added just in time for the MySQL Conference (and unexpected Oracle acquisition).
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Global CIO: Have CIOs Become More Risk Averse?
While it appears to be true, the reasons are less related to the economy than one might think.
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Liberty Bank Picks COCC for Core Conversion
COCC will offer its core banking solution to Liberty Bank on an outsourced basis.
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T-Mobile Aiming For Smarter Grid
The carrier's embedded SIMs will enable smart meters on a low-voltage transformer to communicate back to the utility over a smart grid.
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Apple's iPhone App Store Logs Billionth Download
The person who downloaded the billionth app will get $10,000 in iTunes credit, a 17-inch MacBook Pro, a 32-GB iPod Touch, and a Time Capsule backup system.
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Yahoo Pulls The Plug On GeoCities
The move comes a few days after Yahoo said it would lay off nearly 700 workers, or 5 percent of its workforce.
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Apple Apology For Baby Shaker Criticized
The application, which depicts a crying baby, has users quiet the infant by vigorously shaking the smartphone.
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How iPhone 3.0 May Revolutionize The Smartphone Industry
With a new business model for third-party software, peer-to-peer networking, and richer interfaces for third-party hardware, Apple's got a potential game-changer in iPhone 3.0.
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Google Brings Product Search To iPhone, Android
The mobile Product Search could make it easier for Google to extend its powerful advertising platform to the mobile space.
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Clearwire Subject Of Class Action Complaint
Frustrated customers say service hasn't been as fast or reliable as advertised, and when they seek to cancel their service they're pressured to pay early-termination fees.
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Windows Sales Off 16% As Microsoft's Reports Sharp Profit Decline
Revenue and earnings fall as the software maker deals with recession and vigorous competition.
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Financial Firms Face Massive Market Data Infrastructure Challenges
If U.S. equities message volumes continue to grow at their current pace, they should average 1.2 billion messages per day by 2011, according to new Aite Group report.
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Universities Get $5 Million To Tap IBM-Google Cloud
National Science Foundation grant recipients will explore image processing, large-scale data analysis, improving the Internet, human genome sequencing, and other areas.
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Department Of Defense Pursues Private Cloud
The agency is launching development and testing tools that should make it easier for military developers to test and deploy software themselves without the red tape.
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Android, iPhone Steal Share From Rivals
The iPhone is still the leader of mobile Web surfing, but Android is making a hard charge, according to data from AdMob.
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Review: Tweetie, A Sweet Twitter Client For Mac
An alternative to the clutter of desktop Twitter apps such as TweetDeck, Tweetie packs a lot of power beneath its sublimely simple, cheerful interface.
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Judge Extends Fed Scrutiny Of Microsoft 18 Months
The Department of Justice claims the software maker is not fully complying with an antitrust agreement.
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IBM Adopts 'Migrate From Oracle' Technology
Big Blue is using EnterpriseDB to make it easier for DB2 users to migrate away from the Oracle database system.
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AMD Refreshes Dragon Platform For PC Enthusiasts
The quad-core Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition has a clock speed of 3.2 GHz and can be taken to higher speeds using AMD's OverDrive 3.0 technology.
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Wikipedia Goes Mobile
The Wikimedia Foundation signs a deal with Orange to distribute content from Wikipedia on European mobile phones, Internet portals, and potentially even televisions.
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