Friday, February 19, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 19/02/2010



Huawei Introduces LTE Modem
Not restricted to long-term evolution technology alone, the device is backwards compatible with 3G UMTS and 2G GSM/EDGE networks.
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Introducing Broker-Dealers Compete With Big Boys
Introducing brokers' technology budgets are small, but many of these firms can, and do, compete with the largest firms' platforms simply by being smart shoppers, says a new Aite Group report.
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CNA Adopts CargoNet
CargoNet provides a central database and related functionality that enables the immediate reporting of cargo theft to law enforcement professionals nationally, as well as secure and confidential information sharing among other concerned parties.
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Carriers Target Ease of Use, STP to Win Agents' Hearts and Minds
Carriers increasingly are targeting ease of use to win agents' hearts and minds, while also bringing them closer to true straight-through processing (STP).
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Sunshine State Extends BPO Relationship With CSC
The six-year contract will add support for the insurer's personal and commercial property business from an upgraded technology platform to existing processing services supporting Sunshine State's underwriting, rating policy issuance and administration and other functions.
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Botnet Affecting 2,500 Organizations Discovered
"Kneber Botnet" gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers.
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Server Den: AMD Emphasizes Energy Efficient Opterons
Our columnist interviews AMD chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau, who talks about the scrappy chip vendor's upcoming processors, the four stages of virtualization, and why scale-out servers could be the platform of the future.
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Apple Offers To Replace Faulty Drives
The hard drives on certain Macbooks are vulnerable, but Apple did not describe the conditions that could lead to drive failure.
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NASA Releases First Images From WISE Satellite
The infrared satellite will scan the entire sky searching out previously unseen comets, asteroids, stars and galaxies.
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Federal Health IT Group Refines Meaningful Use Rules
Health IT Policy Committee aims to make it easier to meet some requirements for deploying e-health record systems but also adds more rules.
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IT Software Spending To Focus On Upgrades
The focus on upgrading software is the result of a backlog that occurred during the economic recession, study shows.
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HP Profits Jump 25%
Higher revenue year-to-year from sales of PCs, servers, and printers offset flat sales in software and services.
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Global CIO: Open Letters To Ellison, Hurd, Chambers, & Plattner
Column highlight several "Open Letter To CEO ABC" that we've written in the past years to the leaders of some of the major IT vendors in the world with suggestions on how to position their enterprise products more successfully with CIOs.
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Fundtech Reports 4Q Growth, Hires Industry Vet
Revenues up 10% and Ed Gainer, former CEO of Generated Systems Technologies, to run cash management business.
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Cyberattack Drill Shows U.S. Unprepared
Cyberattack Drill Shows U.S. Unprepared
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PleaseRobMe.com Solicits Social Theft
The Web site gathers tweets and online posts about people who are away from home to emphasize the risk posed by advertising one's location.
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Google Buzz Brings Complaint From Canada
The country's Privacy Commissioner wants Google to explain how its changes to Buzz will address privacy concerns.
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Staples Launches Business IT Services
The company's IT offerings for large and small firms include desktop support, certified engineers, and data center emergency services.
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AMD Updates Catalyst Graphics Driver
The company will release monthly upgrades to improve the game-running performance of its Radeon graphics processor..
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Qwest 4Q Profits Sink; FTTN A Bright Spot
Aggressive deployment of fiber to the node (FTTN) and 80,000new fiber customers were cited as highlights of the quarter.
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Salesforce Launches Private Beta Of Chatter
The program will bring Facebook- and Twitter-type capabilities to businesses using applications on the Force.com cloud computing platform.
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Cyberattack Drill Shows U.S. Unprepared
A group of high-ranking former federal officials scramble to react to mobile phone malware and the failure of the electricity grid in a staged exercise.
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HHS To Manage Stimulus Spending From The Cloud
Acumen Solutions will build a Salesforce.com app for the Department of Health and Human Services to manage health IT relationships and projects.
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LTE Handset Development Gets Boost
Verizon, AT&T and over three dozen other wireless companies have signed on to the Voice over LTE initiative, expected to speed deployment of Long Term Evolution phones.
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Microsoft Outlook Becomes Social Hub
The company's popular messaging client now connects with LinkedIn, and soon with Facebook and MySpace.
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