Wednesday, July 8, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 08/07/2009



Former IBM Exec Seeks Fraud Dismissal
Unisys' Sam Khanna has asked a court to toss suit filed by Big Blue.
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CA Aligns With Cisco, VMware To Manage Cloud
VMware's vSphere 4 and Cisco's Nexus 1000V distributed virtualized switches will be getting management services from CA.
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Bloomberg Signs On to Deliver Data for Coming ELX Futures Exchange
Treasury futures contract data to be delivered free on Bloomberg terminals for a year.
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Google Takes Aim At Microsoft With New PC OS
The Chrome Operating System will initially be targeted at netbooks and is to launch in 2010, Google said Tuesday.
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Social Security Number Prediction Makes Identity Theft Easy
Posting your birthday on Facebook could help identity thieves predict your Social Security number, a new study finds.
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S1 Enterprise Introduces New eLearning Solutions
Zions Bancorporation will be the first firm to use S1's new series of self-paced, interactive eLearning modules for financial institutions.
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SWIFT, SmartStream Say Reconciliation Service Improves Trade Throughput 30%
Hosted reconciliation service, now a network destination over the SWIFT network, processes trades electronically and handles exceptions through workflow.
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Broadband To Reach 640 Million Households By 2013
While the Asia-Pacific region will account for nearly half the global broadband market share, the U.S. will also see a boost from the Obama Administration's stimulus package.
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NASA Funding Air Turbulence Prediction System
In wake of Air France crash, weather scientists are applying artificial intelligence to satellite data and computer-generated weather models.
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Samsung Predicts Strong Second Quarter
The company had a fivefold increase in operating profits from the previous quarter thanks to increased market share in the handset and flat-panel television markets.
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PostgreSQL Upgrades Open Source Database Performance Tools
The 8.4 release of the database project offers improved administration, security, monitoring, and SQL features.
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Apple's iPhone Vulnerable To Hotspot Hijacking
The new iPhone 3.0 software automatically launches the Safari browser in certain circumstances, a feature that makes the iPhone more usable and less secure.
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SAP Brings Intelligence to Unified Governance, Risk and Compliance Apps
Embedded dashboards, analytics, reports and alerts help executives anticipate and take preventive action across multiple compliance challenges.
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Music Filesharing Mom Seeks New Trial
A federal jury ruled last month that Jammie Thomas-Rasset had illegally downloaded 24 songs. She was fined $1.92 million.
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Symbian Foundation Poised To Release OS Beta
The latest version of the Symbian operating system is expected to be on commercially available smartphones early next year.
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Goldman's Alleged Code Thief Makes Bail
Programmer Sergey Aleynikov is under travel and computer use restrictions while awaiting trial.
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Google Apps Finally Exits Beta
New features and services could make the Apps more appealing to corporate customers and easier for administrators to handle.
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Wall Street Adjusts to Transparency Demands
Calls for transparency from regulators, investors and even financial firms aren't about to subside anytime soon. Technology -- and education -- are key to helping Wall Street respond.
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Microsoft Warns Of 'Browse-And-Get-Owned' Attack
Attacks have been reported that attempt to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Video ActiveX Control.
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Motorola Seeks Android Developers
The company wants to woo developers to create Motorola-specific Android apps to help it differentiate from the competition.
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Congress Urges Defense IT Acquistion Overhaul
Report recommends better planning for upgrades, early prototyping and deployment, and "modular open system" approaches to software and system development.
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Palm Pre Bound For Europe
A GSM version of the touchscreen smartphone will enable Palm to offer its flagship handset to new markets.
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American Express Outsources To HP-EDS
Five-year deal covers a wide range of IT management services.
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American Express Outsources To HP-EDS
Five-year deal covers a wide range of IT management services.
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DocuLex Releases Upgrade for Archive Studio Professional Capture 4
DocuLex has introduced new features for its Archive Studio Professional Capture 4 around optical character recognition (OCR) and document correction capabilities.
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