Friday, July 17, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 17/07/2009



HTC Fixes Bluetooth Vulnerability In Smartphones
Security flaw allows attackers to gain access to all files on HTC's Windows Mobile phones running the 6.0 or 6.1 versions.
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Shuttle Plans Space Station Flyby
ISS crew will photograph Endeavour as part of heat shield inspection.
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RIM Agrees To Pay $267 Million To Visto In Patents Case
Research In Motion to receive a perpetual and fully paid license on all Visto patents.
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Microsoft, Yahoo Said To Renew Search Talks
On-again, off-again negotiations have reportedly been rekindled.
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EasyIngres Seeks To Attract MySQL Developers
New PHP package for Ingres applications is meant to ease the way for MySQL developers.
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EasyIngres Seeks To Attract MySQL Developers
New PHP package for Ingres applications is meant to ease the way for MySQL developers.
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Andrade Will Head The Hartford’s P&C Company
Most recently co-leader of The Hartford's Property and Casualty Operations, Andrade joined the company in 2006 to head its claims organization.
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BMC Software Sees Hybrid Clouds On Horizon
Seeking to manage virtual machines in the cloud from the same management console as on-premises VMs, BMC is enabling internal data centers to work with external resources.
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Alternative Trading Systems Take Bite Out of TSE in Japan
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is facing a big challenge to its iron-grip hold on cash equities trading in Japan as alternative trading systems gain traction with faster trades at better prices.
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Mobile App Developers, Carriers Debate Openness
Wireless carriers, handset makers, and mobile application developers agree networks must be more open, but how open is a matter for discussion.
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IBM Hikes Full-Year Outlook, Shares Shine
IBM sharply raised its full-year earnings forecast as it benefits from focusing more on higher-margin businesses in software and services, sending its shares up as much as 3 percent.
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Google's Personalized Search Challenged By Patent Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed on Thursday claims that iGoogle and other Google search personalization efforts rely on patented technology.
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Kickfire Offers Online Trials Of Analytic Appliance
The try-before-you-buy offer allows prospective customers to run their own queries on a large database of U.S. flight data from the last 20 years.
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Cisco Lays Off Hundreds Of Workers
Some 600-700 employees in Cisco's headquarters got pink slips, part of an ongoing restructuring and cost-cutting effort.
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Mozilla Starts Pay Program For Firefox Add-On Developers
Developers who create Firefox add-ons can now solicit payment for their work through the add-on download site.
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Wal-Mart To Set Sustainability Standards
Retailer plans to set environmental standards for suppliers and give its customers a tool to rate how green products are.
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Mark Logic Upgrades XML Server
Key new features in MarkLogic Server 4.1 include expanded representational state transfer (REST) capabilities, schema validation and hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS)/secure sockets layer (SSL) support.
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Google Earnings Edge Expectations
CEO Eric Schmidt says Google's business has stabilized and consumers are searching more. The company reported slightly better results than anticipated.
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Apple Shows Weakness In PC Market
Mac shipments fell 12.4% year-over-year, as consumers turned to lower-priced computers in the tough economy, said IDC.
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IBM Beats Q2 Estimates, Raises Guidance
Big Blue's second quarter earnings performance defies analysts' forecasts.
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A New Theory on Market Structure
What happens when economic market theory collides with the fractured, high-speed, low-latency, dark pool insanity that we call the U.S. equity market?
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Web May Be Ultimate Mobile Platform
Google, Nokia, and Palm agree that the challenge of supporting multiple mobile platforms is advancing the mobile Web as the future of delivering rich apps to consumers.
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Dell Launches All-In-One Desktop PC For SMBs
The Vostro packs an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an 80-GB hard drive, a 17-inch display, and a DVD drive into a space-saving design.
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Facebook Claims 250 Million Users
Half of the social networking site's users log on every day, but rival Twitter is growing at twice the rate.
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DHS To Spend Up To $389 Million On Emergency Communications
Under terms of the contract, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics, and others will provide scientific, engineering, and technical support to the National Communications System. Under the terms of the contract, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics, SAIC and SRA International will provide scientific, engineering and technical support to the National Communications System, an interagency group that's responsible for some cybersecurity and coordinates national security and emergency preparedness communications. NCS includes services that do things like give authorized national security officials and traffic priority on data, landline and wireless networks in the case of a national emergency. "With growing and changing threats to our nation, it is critical for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to continue to protect our national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications services and facilities," Lou Von Thaer, president of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, said in a statement announcing his company's contract win. Contractors will bolster the National Communications System with project management support, strategic planning, technical analysis, training, emergency operations support and coordination and necessary equipment purchases. They'll also help the government implement government services that get priority during emergencies, help consolidate various communications architectures, analyze networks, and coordinate efforts with state and local governments and industry.
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