Monday, June 1, 2009

IT News HeadLines (NetworkComputing) 01/06/2009



McAfee Identifies the Most Dangerous Web Search Terms
Searches for free music downloads, lyrics, or screensavers are most likely to lead to adware or malware laden sites, says McAfee report
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Indian SMBs Fall Short in Safeguarding Corporate Data, Finds Survey
Symantec 2009 SMB Security and Storage survey finds that inadequate budget coupled with ineffective information security management at the operational level are stumbling blocks for most SMBs in the country
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Teradata Launches Online Developer Community For Data Warehousing
The Developer Exchange is designed to help members share ideas, code samples and discuss problems related to the building and deploying of the data warehouse vendor's products
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Tata Communications Inducted into the Board of Directors of WiMAX Forum
Prateek Pashine, COO of Tata Communications retail broadband unit, will serve as the representative to the WiMAX Forum board
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'Google Wave' May Challenge Microsoft SharePoint
Google's product, platform, and protocol also combines aspects of e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and blogs to allow real-time and stored collaborative messaging
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HP, Cast Iron Offering SaaS Integration Appliances
HP's resellers will offer appliances for handling integration between SaaS and on-site applications, which remains one of the biggest hardships of SaaS deployments
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EMC To Acquire Configuresoft
Configuresoft products, which assist IT operations in maintaining continuous regulatory and security compliance, are used in EMC's server configuration solutions
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Power Outages Makes India Lose 43,000 Crores Annually Says Study
The joint study by Emerson and MAIT observes that this figure has more than doubled since the year 2003 when the amount of direct losses due to outages were estimated to be Rs 22,000 crores
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VMware Invests $20 Million In Terremark Cloud Services
The virtualization giant will own 5% of Terremark, which produces cloud and managed IT services for large companies and government agencies
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HP Expands Low-Priced Mini-Laptop Family
The consumer-centric Mini 110 is available with Windows XP or Linux, while the business-focused Mini 1101 gives buyers the choice of Windows XP Home, XP Pro, or Vista, each for less than $350
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Ingres Adds Red Hat's JBoss To Database Middleware Stack
Using the stack will let developers avoid leaning on stored procedures or triggers written in a vendor's proprietary form of SQL
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Fujitsu India Announces Pallab Talukdar as the New CEO
Fujitsu India hasappointed Pallab Talukdar as the Chief Executive Officer for its India operations
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IBM Unveils Dynamic Infrastructure Lab in Pune
Apart from supporting client needs, the lab aims to increase IBMs operational efficiency by nearly 20 percent
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Wipro Infotech Forays into Data Centre Space
The firm launched a new centre in Mysore, which will be followed by two more coming up in Greater Noida and Pune
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HCL Infosystems Bags Large Deal From BSNL
The firm has won a Rs 240 crore contract with BSNL, involving the implementation of over 60,000 ERP licenses
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Dell Takes Strong Stance Against Exporting e-waste
The firm has banned the export of electronic waste to developing countries
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CA to Host Smart Enterprise Exchange in Bangalore
First exclusive event for CIOs and senior IT Executives to be held in Bangalore on July 3rd, 2009
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IBM Offers Solid-State Drives On Power Systems
The approach is recognition that companies using SSDs in the data center are also likely to use traditional drives, which are considerably less expensive
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HP and Microsoft Expand Alliance in Unified Communications
The two firms recently announced a four-year strategic global initiative to deliver an end-to-end unified communications and collaboration solution
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Microsoft and Polycom Expand Relationship to Enhance Unified Communication Solutions
Polycom adds the CX5000 Unified Conference Station (formerly Microsoft RoundTable) into its suite of devices optimised for Microsoft Office Communicator
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In-Memory BI Upgrades Point to Mainstream User Adoption
Both the TIBCO Spotfire 3.0 upgrade and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer release take first-generation in-memory products to a broader base of users
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Amazon Adds CloudWatch Monitoring, Other Services
The Amazon move follows an earlier offering by open source Web site management firm Hyperic
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Windows 7 Expected To Kill Vista
Researchers at Gartner urge clients to skip Vista altogether if they haven't already deployed the OS
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Google Giving Android A Barcode Scanner
The move could make it easier for Android users to find and buy products online, which would help Google move its lucrative ad platform to the mobile space
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Gartner Says Financial Crisis is Delaying, More Than Cancelling, Client Computing Projects
Certain Applications, Countries and Vertical Markets Provide Some Optimism for Technology and Service Providers
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Google Makes It Easier To Migrate To Gmail
The tool is available in all newly created Gmail accounts and is being rolled out to older ones over the next few days
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Microsoft Promises 10,000 Windows 7-Friendly Products
The software maker says its new OS won't suffer from the compatibility glitches that haunted Vista
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Tata Consultancy Services Drives Transformation at Volkswagen
Five-year partnership will see TCS helping Volkswagen Group UK consolidate in order to sell more vehicles, sell more parts, drive down costs
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HCL Axons iMRO Helps Optimize Jet Aviations SAP Solution
The goal of this project is to better support cabin completion complex project management, MRO operations, and shop-floor usability
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Cordys Enables Business Process Automation for Google Apps
The recently launched Cordys solution allows Google Apps users to add structured workflow to existing unstructured collaborations and to convert unstructured data from Google Docs spreadsheets to structured datasets and applications
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Bollhoff Fastenings India Deploys Sage Accpac ERP
Bollhoff Fastenings India deploys Sage Accpac, a highly scalable and modular ERP application
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Eiji Kato is the New Country Head of Epson India
Epson announces the appointment of Eiji Kato as the new Country Head who will spearhead its India operations
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Microsoft Builds $3.75 Billion War Chest
The software maker's first-ever public debt offering could mean acquisitions are on tap
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