Friday, June 19, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 19/06/2009



Sony Adds Online Movie Database To Blu-ray Discs
MovieIQ lets movie fans to access information on cast and crew and check out production facts, soundtrack information, and other trivia.
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Palm Pre A Weak Draw For Sprint
The touch-screen smartphone has received good reviews, but the majority of Pre buyers were already Sprint mobile customers.
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FCC Examining Exclusive Handset-Carrier Deals
Hearings will likely focus on AT&T's exclusive deal with Apple.
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NYSE And DTCC To Create Joint Venture
The joint venture will be for the clearing of U.S. fixed income securities and derivatives.
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Citi Boosts Treasury Biz by Joining CertiPath Credentialing Program
With its new CertiPath credentials for identity management, Citi will enable its clients to more easily and securely do business with the aerospace and defense industry.
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Apple Launches iPhone 3G S
This is the third consecutive summer that Apple has released an iPhone.
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ILOG Releases New Product Versions
ILOG has released new versions of business rules management solutions optimized under its recent acquisition by IBM.
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Virginia Probes Outsourcing Deal, CIO Fired
The state's $2.3 billion contract with Northrop Grumman is under fire from legislators.
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GroundWork Monitor Adds JBoss Portal
Open source Monitor 6.0, now available in beta, will soon include a software development kit for adding user interface features.
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The Hartford Names Christopher Lewis SVP of Capital Planning and Chief Risk Officer, P&C
Lewis will be responsible for further streamlining capital planning infrastructure across the organization and for enterprise risk management initiatives and implementation within the P&C operations.
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’Kill the Comatose Servers,’ Says IT Guru Ken Brill
Kenneth Brill, technology industry icon and executive director of the Uptime Institute, offers his secrets to an efficient data center.
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Federal Jury: Music Downloader Owes $1.92 Million
Decision is a victory for the RIAA in its crackdown on illegal music file sharing.
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Stanford Faces Massive Fraud Charges in Federal Court
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford will appear in federal court in Virginia Friday to answer allegations he orchestrated a massive fraud through his Antigua bank that bilked investors out of millions of dollars.
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Romanian Bank Offers Prepaid Card Tied to Mobile Phone
The Raiffeisen Bank Visa Prepaid Card lets users make domestic funds transfer via cell phone.
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Google Tool Translates Iran Info
Service automatically translates text from Web sites, blogs, and e-mail from English to Persian or Farsi, and vice versa.
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Ballmer: Bing Will Succeed
Microsoft chief says it's not too late for his company to catch Google in search.
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Global CIO: Should CIO Compensation Be Capped By The Government?
It seems inevitable that the Obama administration will seek to cap executive compensation across the board, including CIOs, and not just for companies bailed out by taxpayers.
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EU Leaders Back Bank Supervision Shake-Up
European Union leaders agreed on Friday to back the creation of a European system of financial supervisors to help prevent any new economic crisis, but gave them only limited powers.
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Startup Online Game Publisher Playdom Hires EA COO
John Pleasants is joining the startup at a time when online gaming is growing, while the video-game industry is in a slump.
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Telecom Firms Demo Successful Femtocell Milestone
Starent, picoXcell, and Continuous Computing's push for better access point standardization indicates that significant progress is being made.
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Semiconductor Sales Hit Bottom In First Quarter
The semiconductor market's weakness stretches back to the fourth quarter of 2007, which followed an industry revenue peak in the previous quarter.
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IDC Offers Outlook, Vendor Evaluation In Latest BI Report
The IDC Competitive Analysis Report lists SAP/Business Objects as the clear leader of the business intelligence tools market, and says SAP is "well positioned to fulfill the future needs of BI technology purchasers."
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Sony Offers $880 Vaio Laptop With Blu-ray Player
Sporting an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the media-ready notebook comes with an HDMI output and 'instant Internet' button.
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HP, Skytap Testing Cloud Applications
Through its partnership, HP's LoadRunner testing tool can now be used to build test scenarios that will tax an application's limits.
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Research In Motion Sees Sales Boost
The BlackBerry maker had a strong quarter, but it is facing a highly competitive smartphone environment with high-profile handsets from Apple and Palm.
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