Wednesday, July 14, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 14/07/2010



Oracle Patches 59 Vulnerabilities
Sun Solaris product suite, Oracle Database Server, Fusion Middleware, and Supply Chain Products Suite vulnerable to remote exploitation, with no authentication required.
Read More ...


MSB Releases BI Suite
The solution helps property and casualty insurers act upon leakage, sales channel performance, risk selection, loss prevention and mitigation, pricing accuracy and low policy count growth, MSB says.
Read More ...

NASA To Award $5 Million For Tech Innovation
Centennial Challenges will fund innovations in low-cost launch technology, energy storage, and robotics.
Read More ...

Windows 7-To-XP Downgrade Lives On
Logic aside, Microsoft insists "unprecedented" popularity of Windows 7 is what's really behind the extension.
Read More ...

West Bend Mutual Picks Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting
The Wisconsin-based regional P&C carrier expects the system to improve efficiency, enabling getting new rating features to market faster and at lower cost.
Read More ...

Tyco Electronics To Acquire ADC For $1.25 Billion
Adding ADC's network infrastructure products will expand Tyco's enterprise broadband connectivity portfolio.
Read More ...

Netgear Switch Manages Multimedia Traffic
A media friendly line of network-attached storage products was announced along with the 8-port Gigabit PoE ProSafe Smart Switch that lets business add VoIP, video, wireless LAN service.
Read More ...

Facebook Sued For 84% Ownership Stake
Web designer Paul Ceglia says a 2003 contract entitles him to majority ownership of the social networking site.
Read More ...

Finance Reform Bill Moves Toward Final Test in Congress
A historic rewrite of U.S. financial regulations moved toward its final test in Congress on Tuesday even though Democrats have not yet nailed down the votes needed for passage in the Senate.
Read More ...

Windows Phone 7 Gains Remote Find And Kill
Microsoft on Tuesday announced several new features that will become part of its Windows Phone 7 platform. One of them is better integration with the Web, including a remote find, lock, and kill feature.
Read More ...

Americans Say No to Stay-cations; Chase Targets Summer Travel with Card Program
Last year, due to financial worries, many Americans stayed home for their summer vacation. This year, they're ready to spend again, and Chase is capitalizing on the trend with a new cash-back credit card offer.
Read More ...

iCentera Adds Cloud Portals For B2B Sales
Business-to-business companies can create custom portals for direct and indirect channel sales that present secure views while providing usage analytics.
Read More ...

Mobile TV Stalls In China
Few willing to pay to use China multimedia mobile broadcasting service.
Read More ...

MediaTek Developing Inexpensive Android Chipsets
Low-cost chips expected to increase adoption of Android mobile devices worldwide.
Read More ...

Wall Street Bill Moves Toward Final Votes in Congress
The biggest rewrite of U.S. financial rules since the 1930s appeared to gain the support it needed Monday for final congressional approval as three key Republicans said they would support the measure.
Read More ...

Princeton Financial Systems Releases MIG21 7.0 Compliance Solution
The new technology and functionality of MIG21 7.0 boosts the quality of configuration transfer while further accelerating the configuration process, according to Princeton.
Read More ...

China Loses Web Filter Battle
Green Dam, the company behind the controversial mandate to install filtering software on every computer in China, has closed its Beijing office and is running out of money.
Read More ...

Interxion Offers Low-Latency Access to BATS Europe
BATS Europe's system latency averages 350 microseconds, including matching engine latency of 250 microseconds and circuit latency of 100 microseconds.
Read More ...

AIG Board Meet May Set Ball Rolling on AIA IPO
The board of American International Group is set to meet this week to consider the future of its AIA unit, with a public float seen as the most likely outcome, sources said on Tuesday.
Read More ...

EU to Clinch Financial Services Supervision Deal by September
The European Union is expected to clinch a deal on a sweeping reform of how banks, insurers and markets are supervised by September at the latest, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday.
Read More ...

Infosys Outlook Uncertain as Europe Woes Hit Profit
Infosys Technologies' surprise profit drop shows a weak European economy could curb new orders and dampen a recovery for India's outsourcing sector.
Read More ...

Sprint Might Build LTE Network, Merge With T-Mobile
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse recently said in an interview that the company is considering a switch to Long Term Evolution for its 4G network. He also said there's "logic" in a merger with T-Mobile.
Read More ...

State Bank Whittington to Outsource Core Banking to CSI
Making the switch after 20 years of processing in-house.
Read More ...

Global CIO: Oracle Reveals Strategy And Customers For White-Hot Exadata
Transcending data warehousing and OLTP, Oracle's Exadata is triggering an industrywide redefinition of the IT systems that fire the global economy.
Read More ...

Fieldpoint Private Bank Turns to Cloud Computing for CRM and Beyond
It's starting with Salesforce and Pershing, but Fieldpoint Bank eventually would like to run everything IT in the cloud.
Read More ...

No comments: