Saturday, April 3, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 03/04/2010



Pentaho Release Blends Data Integration, BI
Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 teams Kettle ETL software with data modeling and data visualization shortcuts.
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Pentaho Release Blends Data Integration and BI
Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 teams Kettle ETL software with data modeling and data visualization shortcuts.
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U.S. Treasury Appoints Two Directors to AIG Board
Former E*Trade CEO Donald Layton's and retired CEO of EDS Ronald Rittenmeyer's appointments are effective immediately.
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The Hartford Restructures to Reignite Growth
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc will restructure itself under a plan to reignite growth by courting small- and medium-sized businesses as clients and reigning in risk.
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Patelco Credit Union Wards Off Malware Attacks
Large California credit union using network access control software to detect and investigate suspicious activity.
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White House Launches Mobile Site
The White House mobile site emphasizes functionality over flair, but the iPad-ready main White House site has plenty of both.
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Pivot Expands Liquidity Management Platform to Equity Options Market
By creating a focused, shared view of order flow Pivot allows brokerage desks to identify and react quicker to customer orders, match orders faster, and get orders into OMS and trade execution systems with one click.
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Which Broker? The Temptations Of A Fund Manager
Fund group Gartmore's suspension of a top hedge fund manager on suspicion of directing trades to favoured brokers shines a light on a murky business where tales of lavish hospitality, nepotism and kickbacks abound. On Tuesday, Gartmore said it had suspended Guillaume Rambourg pending the outcome of an internal investigation into whether he had breached internal procedures on directing trades.
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Verizon Slashes Palm Smartphone Prices
Palm has lost market share as Android smartphones continue to gain ground.
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Yahoo Partners With Healthline
Healthline aims to provide health information technology that will drive health-specific search and navigation on the Yahoo site.
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Business Books: The Inside Scoop on Lehman's Collapse
A literary genre to emerge from the financial crisis is the Big Bank Biography, led by "The Partnership," Charles Ellis' history of Goldman Sachs, and several tales of the end of Bear Stearns & Co.
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Verizon and IBM Offer Data Backup
Two companies join EMC and Iron Mountain in the enterprise disaster recovery business.
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Global CIO: Oracle, SAP, And The End Of Enterprise Software Companies
Column about how SAP and Oracle are on the verge of transforming from software companies into services companies, a trend revealed in their past year's revenue figures and that will only accelerate as they enhance their relationships with customers.
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How SAP Can Beat Oracle; First iPad Reviews
How SAP Can Beat Oracle; First iPad Reviews
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Microsoft Loses i4i Appeal
A federal appeals court rejects a request for a rehearing in a patent infringement case involving Microsoft Word.
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Apple Offers iPad Tours
Free workshops will help consumers learn more about Cupertinos's new tablet-style computing device.
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eBay Prevails In Tiffany Counterfeiting Suit
Tiffany said the latest court decision leaves room for the jeweler to pursue claims of false advertising against the online auction site.
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Not Time to Raise Rates Yet, Fed Officials Say
U.S. interest rates are set to stay near zero for the time being, though the U.S. Federal Reserve stands ready to take action if signs of inflation begin to mount, top central bank officials said on Thursday.
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U.S. Bankruptcy Filings Rise to Highest Since 2005
More Americans filed for bankruptcy protection in March than at any time since federal bankruptcy laws were overhauled in 2005, reflecting the unevenness of the economy's stabilization after the deepest recession since the 1930s.
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Apple Blesses iPad-Ready Web Sites
The company is promoting publishers who offer HTML5 video as an alternative to Adobe Flash.
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Process Management Tools For Nursing Lacking
Survey finds nurses lack supply chain and logistics technology that could help them better manage patients.
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FBI System Modernization Faulted
Delays and cost overruns on the FBI's $451 million Sentinel case management system have drawn fire from an inspector general and the Senate.
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Intel, Nokia Open MeeGo To Developers
Open source developers now have access to the fledgling mobile operating system's source code.
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Wolfram Alpha Drops App Price 96%
The company is also introducing a new mobile site in a bid to boost the breadth of its appeal.
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Global CIO: After Oracle Windfall, He's On A New Mission
Hyperion's former chairman and CEO pours himself into evangelizing business performance management. Does the world need another three-letter acronym?
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