Friday, March 12, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 12/03/2010



Microsoft Aids IT Training In California
Software vendor teams with state officials to offer access to e-learning courses and certification exams.
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U.S. Financial Reform Deal Fails, Dodd to Move Ahead
Senator Christopher Dodd said Thursday that he will present on Monday his own version of a financial reform bill after compromise talks with Senate Republicans broke down.
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Top Prudential Investors Warm to Giant AIA Deal
Major shareholders in Britain's Prudential are warming to the insurer's $35.5 billion bid for AIG's Asian business following meetings with chief executive Tidjane Thiam, investor sources said.
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Former TSA Worker Charged With Hacking
The Department of Justice indictment alleges that a former TSA employee tampered with servers containing data from the Terrorist Screening Database.
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Hyland Aims to Bridge Online/Offline Worlds with OnBase 9.2
Enhancements to the enterprise content management suite include a "full-featured" offline client, Mobile Workflow for BlackBerry and workflow integration with Microsoft Outlook.
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TIBCO Spotfire 3.1 Makes Predictive Analytics Available for All Business Apps
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Server Den: Juniper Fires Back At Cisco CRS-3
As the networking behemoths battle over router speed claims, both are attempting to cement public personas, and clue in non-technical consumers on who they are.
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SAIC Lands $625 Million Navy Contract
The deal calls for Science Applications International Corp. to develop new software and modify existing Navy command and control systems.
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CBOE Files for $300 Million IPO
CBOE Holdings Inc, which operates the biggest U.S. options exchange, said on Thursday it is planning to raise as much as $300 million in an initial public offering.
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Edward Jones Selects Broadridge for Company-Wide Performance Reporting
Aspire Performance Reporting service now deployed for 12,000 financial advisors and nearly seven million clients.
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Ex-New York Pension Fund Investment Chief Pleads Guilty
The former chief investment officer for New York State's comptroller Wednesday pleaded guilty to helping favored firms gain access to the state's $129 billion pension fund.
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HSBC Apologizes for Former IT Staffer's Theft of Data on 15,000 Clients
Former HSBC computer specialist allegedly tried to sell Swiss private banking account data in Lebanon.
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U.S. Email Firm Sues Swiss Postal Service
E-mail verification company RPost has brought a federal suit charging the Swiss agency of patent and trademark infringement.
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Google Bike Maps? Fuhgeddaboudit
New search service sends New York cyclists into prohibited lanes and onto streets filled with careening trucks and crazed cabbies.
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Panasonic, Best Buy Partner On 3D TV
The consumer electronics firm joins rivals Samsung and Sony in championing 3D TV home systems.
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Healthcare IT Workgroup Tackles Privacy
Group seeks to balance privacy concerns with a healthcare system that facilitates and enhances care.
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Global CIO: Apple, IBM, & Oracle Get Turbocharged By Cisco
Column about how Cisco's new CRS-3 router will accelerate, create new opportunities for 14 key companies, and give CIOs new capabilities to weave into new business models and IT strategies.
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GDC: OnLive Takes Gaming To The Cloud
GDC: OnLive Takes Gaming To The Cloud
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In Praise of Shorts and Financial Speculation
While the stocks of many investment banks tanked and a number failed, it wasn't the short sellers that created the problems.
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SpringSource Springs Enterprise Tomcat Server
VMware's SpringSource unit launches an enterprise version of the Apache Tomcat server used to run Java apps on the Web.
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Western Digital Intros Portable Video Drive
My Passport AV plugs into the USB port of a game console, camcorder, TV, digital video recorder or Blu-ray player.
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Google Testing TV Internet Search
The experiment could determine whether TV viewers would favor Web-like searches over the use of remote control searches.
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CA To Buy Nimsoft For $350 Million
Acquisition of the system monitoring firm is a move toward growing CA's customer base in the cloud and managed service provider space.
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GDC: iPhone Developers Face Hidden Risks
Most iPhone developers don't fully understand the regulatory compliance challenges that accompany app distribution.
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Volcker Welcomes Senate Volcker Rule Bill
White House economic adviser Paul Volcker told Reuters Wednesday he was encouraged by support in the Senate for the 'Volcker rule' proposed in January to limit proprietary trading by banks.
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