Thursday, March 25, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 25/03/2010



Cybersecurity Bill Passes Senate Committee
Senators supporting the legislation, aimed at protecting the U.S. from cyberattacks, stress the need to enact it as soon as possible.
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Feds Try Mobile Video, 3G Tethering
The ATF is testing video surveillance on Windows Mobile devices, while the IRS is looking to replace its 25,000 3G cards by tethering smartphones to laptops.
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Gmail Gets Intruder Alarm
Watching for suspicious account activity is now easier for Gmail users.
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Average U.S. Household Spent $37,782 Last Year, Citi-Backed Site Bundle Finds
Biggest spenders live in Austin, Texas.
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G Boasts Video Muscle
Based on Google's Android 2.1 platform, HTC's EVO 4G WiMax handset puts the emphasis on 720p video with two cameras and a 4.3-inch screen.
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TMX Group Taps NetScout Systems for Latency Monitoring
Operator of cash and derivatives markets deploys nGenius Assurance Solution to track order messages and market data feeds to prevent degradation of performance over its Cisco network.
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Financial Reform Time Line: How the Regulation Fight Might Play Out
The financial regulation debate has a long way to go in the U.S. Congress, with the action shifting to the full Senate and big headlines unlikely until April.
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Yahoo Unveils iPhone Search Apps
At CTIA, Yahoo announces a free application called Yahoo Search iPhone, and a separate location-based app.
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Workday 10 Boosts HR Capabilities
The enterprise resource planning suite gains talent profiles, employee goals, and succession planning features.
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RealTick Expands Relationship With Nomura Adding Latest U.S. Electronic Equity Trading Capabilities
RealTick users can access Nomura's latest ModelEx suite of algorithms, Smart Router and dark crossing platform NX, as well as make use of Nomura's direct market access, Program Trading and Worked Order capabilities for U.S., European and Asian equity execution.
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GSA To Update Cloud Computing Web Site
Apps.gov will get a user interface and content redesign as well as a revamped request for quotations interface and social media hosting capability.
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Google to Phase Out China Search Partnerships
Two day after shutting its Chinese portal over censorship, Google Inc said it plans to phase out deals to provide filtered search services to other online or mobile firms in China.
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ANALYSIS-Dodd Bill Takes Pass on Key Broker Reforms
As Senator Christopher Dodd's financial regulatory reform bill heads to the full Senate, brokerages for now have escaped tougher regulation thanks largely to fierce lobbying by insurers.
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Google Users Report Erratic Service in Beijing
Users of Google Inc.'s search engines across Beijing reported erratic service on Wednesday, with the site sometimes failing to open, and some searches for even non-sensitive terms like "hello" returning error messages.
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Nintendo Preps 3D Gaming Device
The portable 3DS will compete not only with gaming consoles, but with smartphones such as Apple's iPhone.
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IBM Opens China Lab
Researchers at the facility will build predictive analytics software to increase customers' ability to forecast trends, reduce waste, and spot fraud.
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Boeing Credit Union Launches Person-to-Person Payments
Using CashEdge's POPmoney service to let members pay other people via mobile phone.
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Microsoft Spotlights Comm Partnerships At VoiceCon
The software behemoth is adding momentum to Office Communication Server with help from Audiocodes, Aastra, HP, Polycom and Verizon.
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Health IT Storage Challenges To Surge
The coming demand for storage will be great, but so will regulatory and compliance scrutiny, data security, risk mitigation, and transparency.
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Wells Fargo, Visa Offer Text Alerts to Cardholders
Text-alert service to help credit cardholders manage their budgets and identify fraud.
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NYSE Data Center Upgrade To Yield New Business
The New York Stock Exchange Group will offer infrastructure and hosted services in addition to its data and trading services when it brings two new mega-data centers online.
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Global CIO: Are Oracle, HP, Cisco & IBM Too Big To Innovate?
Column analyzing how five of the biggest IT companies--IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Cisco--have scored in using acquisitions to deliver customer-centric innovation to CIOs.
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VoiceCon Standards Clash; Palm's Cautionary Tale
VoiceCon Standards Clash; Palm's Cautionary Tale
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U.S. Home Loan Modification Program Doomed, Watchdog Says
A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in 2012, a report from the watchdog overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout said on Tuesday.
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Global CIO: Ford's Challenge: Social Networking At 70 MPH
Automaker takes a different view of location-based apps.
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