Friday, March 19, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 19/03/2010



Jackson National Life Selects Thunderhead NOW
The life, annuities and institutional products insurer will use the Thunderhead platform to streamline the production and delivery of its policy documentation, correspondence and other personalized content.
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Down To Business: The Most Strategic Vendors, 11-20
One reader said my 1-10 list favored sales machines over true innovators. Point taken. This focuses less on size and more in impact.
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The Hartford Prices Share Offerings
The Hartford plans to use the net proceeds of the offerings, together with proceeds from a planned debt offering and available funds to repurchase in full the $3.4 billion of The Hartford's preferred shares issued to the U.S. Treasury Department under Treasury's Capital Purchase Program.
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Verizon Files Patent Suit Over Cablevision Boxes
The International Trade Commission complaint says Cablevision's set-top boxes infringe five Verizon patents pertaining to video downloading and social networking features.
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Browser Ballot Screen Boosts Opera
Computer users across Europe are downloading the browser in droves since Microsoft added choice screen to Windows.
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Tandberg Puts Telepresence On Desktops
The EX90 features 1080p30 resolution and has a touchscreen interface.
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DHS To Share Intelligence With Some CIOs
A Department Of Homeland Security pilot program allows some state, local, and private-sector officials to access classified information about cyberthreats.
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Dubno Restructures BofA's Global Markets Technology Group
Dubno, a former Goldman Sachs CTO, has plucked three high-level technology executives from competitors JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and UBS, all former fellow Goldmanites, to join his new group at Bank of America.
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Global CIO: Google, At Last, Goes For Microsoft's Throat
By taking on Microsoft head-on, Google's getting serious about enterprise IT.
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Omnium Launches Software Suite Providing Real-Time Access to Data
OmniumAccess provides clients with direct access to their data and the processes that support their entire post-trade lifecycle.
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Branding Brilliance Behind Cisco's Borderless Networks
Our Server Den columnist says that Cisco is smartly encapsulating the deep technology of next-gen networks supporting mobile workers and streaming video, but Juniper and HP ProCurve won't stand idly by.
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P2P Puts Medical Data At Risk
Study finds peer-to-peer file sharing exposes personal health data on home computers to security vulnerabilities.
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Comerica Repays TARP; Hartford Sells $1.95b Stock
Regional bank Comerica Inc on Wednesday said it has repaid $2.25 billion of federal bailout money, while Hartford Financial Services Group Inc said it sold $1.95 billion of stock to help repay $3.4 billion of its bailout funds. its bailout funds.
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Hoyer Says U.S. Healthcare Overhaul Will Cut Deficit
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Thursday that proposed final healthcare legislation would cut the U.S. deficit by more than $100 billion over the first 10 years.
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Regulators Worry Over Cracks in Financial Reforms
Top officials warned policymakers to avoid hurting global efforts to toughen up financial regulation as differences emerge over derivatives speculation, hedge funds and bank capital.
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EMC Offers Microsoft Exchange Protection
The integrated set of technologies uses Microsoft Exchange Server 2010's API, including the e-mail server's replication API.
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Wachovia's AML Program Failed; Pays $160 Million to Settle Drug Money Probe
Wachovia Bank has agreed to pay $160 million to settle U.S. charges that it failed to stop more than $100 million of Colombian and Mexican drug traffickers' money being laundered through accounts at the bank, U.S. authorities said.
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HTC Boss Slams Apple Lawsuit
Manufacturer of Google phones says Steve Jobs' patent complaints are groundless.
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Lower Bar Sought For Health IT Stimulus Funds
Healthcare providers call for government to make requirements dictating meaningful use of electronic medical record systems easier to comply with.
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Cloud Connect: NIST Prepares 'Use Case' Site
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will build a "use case" repository that may eventually give shape to cloud computing specifications.
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Global CIO: Will Cisco's Revolutionary Router Torpedo Tinseltown?
Column about how Cisco's new and blazingly fast CRS-3 router could potential the traditional business models in Hollywood and the film industry as it can stream every movie ever made in just 4 minutes.
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Wachovia Pays $160 Million to Settle Drug Money Probe
Wachovia Bank has agreed to pay $160 million to settle U.S. charges that it failed to stop more than $100 million of Colombian and Mexican drug traffickers' money being laundered through accounts at the bank, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
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Bernanke Sees U.S. Backing Fannie, Freddie Debt
Current Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities are likely to retain U.S. government backing should Congress create a new system for financing U.S. homes, U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
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Google Nexus One Coming To Sprint
The mobile carrier says that it will disclose pricing and availability soon.
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