Saturday, May 30, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 30/05/2009



Ease The Pain Of E-Discovery
Here's how three companies have pulled together IT, legal, and other stakeholders to reduce the complexity and cost of finding information when the lawyers come calling.
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Products Make E-Discovery Easier
A range of offerings can help with e-discovery -- and your company may already have the technology it needs.
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Microblogs Get Down To Business
Twitter and Yammer can offer companies a free focus group and a cheap option for collaboration.
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Information Silos Stand In The Way Of Interoperability
Government IT pros are pursuing a more open public enterprise, but system interoperability remains a formidable challenge.
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Rolling Review Wrap-Up: Smartphone Security
Each product we looked at showed different core strengths. Know your environment to find the best tool for your mobile device fleet.
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Down To Business: Is IT Innovation Dead?
Even in a tech economy dominated by vendor consolidation and customer cost cutting, plenty of innovation is still happening.
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Practical Analysis: Change Starts At The Top
Most IT execs aren't ready to make the organizational changes needed to capitalize on virtualization.
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HDMI Audio-Video Connector Gets Ethernet Support
Besides high-speed bidirectional communication, the connector will allow an Internet-enabled HDMI device to share its Internet connection with other HDMI devices without a separate cable.
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Google Executive To Become Federal Deputy CTO
Andrew McLaughlin will find that he isn't the only ex-Google employee serving the Obama administration.
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HP, IBM Tie As Global Server Market Hits 12-Year Low
Market conditions worsened across all geographic regions in the quarter, as customers of all types pulled back on spending, an IDC report shows.
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ISS Expedition 20 Crew Complete After Arrival Of Soyuz
For the first time, all five international partner agencies are represented in orbit, NASA said.
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Tesla Recalls 345 Electric Roadsters
No accidents have been reported, but the recall covers all of the luxury automobiles built before April 22.
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Switch, Router Shipments Down, Backhaul Shipments Way Up
Infonetics reports that telecom carriers are increasing the bandwidth on their backhaul networks to handle exploding mobile data traffic.
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Scientists Celebrate Completion Of World's Largest Laser
The National Ignition Facility is capable of creating conditions similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and inside nuclear weapons.
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Juniper, IBM In Talks To Boost Sales Tie-Up
An OEM deal would provide further incentive for IBM's salespeople to promote Juniper gear to their mutual customers, analysts suggest.
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Cybersecurity Review Finds U.S. Networks 'Not Secure'
The report dovetails with President Obama's call for the creation of a cybersecurity coordinator who will orchestrate and integrate federal cybersecurity policies and agendas.
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Obama Announces White House Cybersecurity Position
Names that have been bandied about include acting White House cybersecurity chief Melissa Hathaway and Microsoft VP Scott Charney.
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FCC To Examine Rural Broadband Needs
A new report indicates that there will be a multiplicity of solutions ranging from cable and DSL to satellite and broadband over power lines.
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Alan Hughes Named BCBSNC CIO
Hughes comes to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina from GE Financial, where he has been CIO for Global Risk Management and Distribution Finance.
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Help Still Wanted, Global Talent Crunch Persists
A survey by global employment services company Manpower found 30% of employers reported trouble filling positions.
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Terracotta Helping Hotelier Build Individualized Services
InterContinental Hotels is using in-memory data-sharing systems to better anticipate what amenities customers will want during their stays.
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DTCC, SWIFT, XBRL US Team to Automate Corporate Actions
Organizations working to make XBRL-formatted corporate actions announcements sharable throughout the industry.
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Small Banks Next on Regulators’ Stress Test List
TowerGroup's Kathleen Khirallah says bank stress tests will become a regular part of the industry and that smaller institutions are not immune.
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Allstate Opens Green Data Center
The Rochelle, Ill.-based center, built to meet LEED Gold certification, takes advantage of the city's high capacity fiber-optics network.
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Kimball University: The 10 Essential Rules of Dimensional Modeling
Follow the rules and you'll ensure granular data, flexibility and a future-proofed information resource. Break the rules and you'll confuse users and run into data warehousing brick walls.
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