Tuesday, July 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 27/07/2010



Roper agrees to buy Cloud SCM vendor iTradeNetwork for $525M
Roper Industries said Monday it plans to buy on-demand SCM software vendor iTradeNetwork from private equity firm Accel-KKR for $525 million. The transaction is expected to close later this week.
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Cisco goes green with Catalyst 3750-X
Buy less equipment, use less power: That's a proposition network managers can get behind, and it's what Cisco promises with the new power management features in its Catalyst 3750-X stackable access switch.
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EU hits IBM with two formal antitrust investigations
The European Commission announced on Monday that it will begin formal investigations into allegations that IBM has abused its dominant market position in mainframe computers.
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Entrepreneurs see profit in iPhone 4 antenna problems
Apple's iPhone 4 antenna woes have provided creative entrepreneurs an opportunity to make some money marketing related wares.
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XML pioneer Bray pitches functional programming for concurrency
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and now with Google, hails languages such as Erlang, Clojure as developers deal with multicore chips
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What Windows Phone 7 doesn't have becomes a hot topic
The list of features missing in Windows Phone 7 has dominated forums and early reviews of reference smartphones now in the hands of 1,000 developers.
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Alcatel-Lucent embraces Web 2.0
Responding to the CEO's call to improve internal communication, Alcatel-Lucent has installed a variety of Web 2.0 tools that are now used by some 19,000 employees.
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Feds ease requirements for receiving EHR reimbursements
The final so-called meaningful-use rules that must be followed to receive federal reimbursement funds for implementing electronic health records systems give more leeway to organizations than a set of e-health guidelines that had been proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year.
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CIOs should plan for a second recession, Gartner says
Gartner says CIOs should develop a list of IT projects that could be postponed or canceled -- if there's a second recession in the next 12 to 18 months.
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Beach reads for techies
Several CIOs identify what books they'll be reading on vacation, and why.
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