Wednesday, February 24, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 24/02/2010



Bank of Taiwan to Extend Its Use of Unisys Core Banking
New core banking system running on two Unisys ClearPath Libra Model 400 servers to support international branches and combat money laundering.
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Sentry Insurance Completes Phase II of Claim Components Implementation
After successfully implementing the first release, for workers' compensation, Sentry selected Accenture to implement a second release of the application for Sentry's commercial lines claims, which included auto, general liability and property insurance.
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Bankster Rap?
Jesse Jackson, bloggers and some journalists have taken to the word "bankster." What will it take for bankers to redeem themselves and for the term to fade from use?
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Wal-Mart To Buy Vudu Online Video Service
Vudu has struggled against tough competition from Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster, Sony, and Microsoft.
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BofA Merrill Lynch Developing Electronic Bank Account Management for Corporate Clients
New system expected to reduce costs and improve efficiency by allowing clients to open accounts online.
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Seagate Ships 2TB Enterprise Drive
The nearline storage device retrieves data from a tape library or other device and makes it available online.
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SanDisk Ships 64 GB SD Memory Card
The Ultra SDXC has a read speed of 15 MB per second and is built for capturing and storing 1080p HD video files.
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Data Center Demand Drives Ethernet Switch Sales
Ethernet router and switch competition has been intensifying as Cisco, HP, and Juniper step up their shipments.
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How Banks Can Meet the Needs of Generation Y
A survey of 1,055 consumers finds banks have a lot of opportunity to reach the 18-to-30-year-old customer segment if they start catering to this group with SMS alerts, online financial advice and videoconferencing.
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Microsoft, Amazon Sign Patent License Deal
Amazon.com, a large commercial user of Linux, and Microsoft have signed a cross-licensing patent agreement.
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Upstarts Keep Data Warehousing Competitive
Upstarts Keep Data Warehousing Competitive
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Guerra On Healthcare: No Mercy on Meaningful Use
Is the Workgroup on Meaningful Use aiming at flexibility, or just piling on additional requirements?
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Global CIO: NBC's Olympics Web Strategy Pounds Another Nail In Coffin
Column about great letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal about NBC's foolish strategy to try to make web viewers watch the Olympics on terms dictated by NBC.
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Google Renovates Ad Platform
The company's DoubleClick advertising technology, originally a tool for large publishers, is now also available for small publishers.
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FTC Warns Of Widespread Data Breaches
Almost 100 organizations have been notified by the agency that sensitive personal data about their employees and customers has been shared from their networks over peer-to-peer file sharing services.
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Integral Development Corp. Jumpstarts FX Algo Development
Integral's new FX Inside Alpha allows firms to develop algorithms, backtest them and and run them in a single environment.
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Global CIO: Future Of Outsourcing: The Xerox-ACS Vision
Can Xerox apply its R&D to ACS's everyday, paper-shuffling kind of problems?
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Bloom Unveiling Clean Energy Fuel Cell
Google, FedEx, and Wal-Mart have been testing the Bloom Box, a fuel cell that combines oxygen with a fuel source to generate enough electricity to power a data center.
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Free Software Foundation Asks Google To Kill Flash
Noting that Apple has ditched Flash for "for suspect reasons and using abhorrent methods (DRM)," the FSF wants Google to deal Flash a "death-blow."
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DHS May Scrap Border Patrol Project
The Department of Homeland Security is reevaluating a plan to add security cameras, radar, and sensors, to patrol efforts along the U.S. Mexico border.
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Upstarts Keep Data Warehousing Competitive
Announcements from Aster Data, Kognitio, ParAccel and Vertica highlight a healthy and growing market for data analysis alternatives.
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Developing Nations Risk E-Waste Crisis
As consumption of computers, cell phones, and TVs escalates across the globe, countries need to establish proper recycling programs to deal with all the electronic waste, says the U.N.
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Huntington Bank Appoints Steve George Technology Shared Services Director
George formerly led retail architecture at JPMorgan Chase.
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Adobe Blogger Challenges Apple's 'Great Man'
Adobe blogger John Dowdell wants Apple to start communicating openly about its actions rather than through comments relayed by unattributed sources.
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