Saturday, April 25, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 25/04/2009



5 Things To Do With Dead PC Hardware
Learn the five best fates for dead PCs, notebooks, hard drives, and other gear. Hint: Letting them go to a landfill is not one of them. Recycling is.
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IT Pros Get Meager Raises As Median Pay Hits $80,000, Our Survey Finds
Our annual salary survey finds big differences based on regions, industries, and skills. Median manager pay reaches $105,000.
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How Retailer Steve & Barry's Failure Rippled Through IT Careers
From its New York CIO to its help desk in India, 130 IT pros hit the pavement this year.
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InformationWeek Analytics: Endpoint Security And DLP
A smart mix of policies, education, and new technologies like data loss prevention can help IT balance access and protection.
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How Sun Could Fit With Oracle's Strategy
Acquisition would allow Oracle to integrate an application, operating system, middleware, and database on top of its own hardware.
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Cybersecurity Balancing Act
Government IT pros struggle to meet mandates as computer system threats keep growing.
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Rolling Review: VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5
Server virtualization's 800-pound gorilla gets more agile in the face of rising competition.
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CIO Profiles: Mark Greenlaw, VP And CIO Of Cognizant
Cloud computing will have a huge impact on the IT services industry over the next five years, Greenlaw predicts.
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Down To Business: Get Serious About Going Green
InformationWeek takes steps toward making the planet greener. For the first 5,000 times our May 4 issue gets downloaded on PDF, a Douglas fir will be planted.
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Practical Analysis: The Increasingly Real Consumer Effect
Even if you don't (yet) let employees pick their own computing devices, securing data on mobile devices while accommodating savvy users should be a priority.
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Napster Judge Hears Hollywood, RealNetworks Arguments
The movie studios sued RealNetworks in 2008, accusing the company of violating their copyrights.
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Lawson Refreshes Smart Office
Smart Office 9.0.3 enables greater personalization of employees' desktops, making them more specific to workers' daily tasks.
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Citi Appoints McWhinney to Head Wealth Management
Former president of Schwab Institutional will oversee Citi's 600 bank-branch-based brokers.
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Alltel Grabs BlackBerry Pearl Flip
The Alltel version will get boosted mobile Internet speeds to help subscribers stay connected on the go.
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Cambridge Science Festival Focusing Social Networks For Enterprise
IBM is expected to demonstrate a brace of social networking technologies at the nine-day event.
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Facebook Users Approve Terms Of Use
The changes increase user control while improving account deletion and limiting sublicenses and reducing data exchanges between application developers.
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Samsung's Profits Stung By Sapping Demand
Cuts in demand for memory chips and LCDs resulted in a 72% decline in profits, but the company's cell phone division was profitable and gained market share.
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Warner Offers Low-Priced Blu-ray Discs To HD DVD Buyers
People still using their HD DVD players will need a Blu-ray player to watch movies on the new discs.
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T-Mobile Sells 1 Million G1s
The success of the Android-powered handset could spur other manufacturers to adopt Google's open source operating system.
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$3 SIM Card Puts Skype On Your Cell Phone
The offer from U.K. mobile phone operator 3 will debut May 1.
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Teen Wins Apple's Billion-App Contest
The online store that offers third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch has more than 35,000 applications available in 77 countries.
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Apple Cutting 1,600 Retail Jobs
The move could signal a slowdown in retail expansion as Apple wants to adjust for what COO Tim Cook calls a "horrendous economy."
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AIG Names Winter Vice Chairman, Hurd VP and Chief Administrative Officer
The two executives will pay key roles in AIG's efforts to restructure its businesses and repay the government assistance the company has received, according to AIG CEO Ed Liddy.
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Tech Mahindra-Satyam Deal Clears Regulatory Hurdle
Competition watchdogs in Germany have signed off on the proposed merger.
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Wolters Kluwer Offers Online Compliance Tools to U.K Insurers
Solutions are aimed at U.K. insurers doing business in the United States.
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