Wednesday, September 15, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InformationWeek) 14/09/2010



76 percent of Indian web surfers are cybercrime victims: Norton
It takes an average of 44 days to resolve a cybercrime in India, and the average cost to resolve that crime is Rs 5,262
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TCS to invest Rs 1000 crore in building 10,000 seat learning campus
The firm is setting up a new learning and development campus in the southern city of Thiruvananthanpuram in Kerala
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Newly discovered world cup database breach exposed 250,000 attendees' details
Employee of the firm in charge of World Cup 2010 ticketing found peddling birth dates, passport, other data of 2006 World Cup customers
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Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launches health IT firm
Picture of Health is recruiting staff for a firm that aims to "leverage technology in pursuit of better health"
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HCL Infosystems wins Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board’s RAPDRP project
The project will help in establishing an integrated IT solution for meter reading, billing and collection, energy auditing and accounting
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76 percent of Indian web surfers are cybercrime victims: Norton
It takes an average of 44 days to resolve a cybercrime in India, and the average cost to resolve that crime is Rs 5,262
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Newly discovered world cup database breach exposed 250,000 attendees' details
Employee of the firm in charge of World Cup 2010 ticketing found peddling birth dates, passport, other data of 2006 World Cup customers
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Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launches health IT firm
Picture of Health is recruiting staff for a firm that aims to "leverage technology in pursuit of better health"
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HCL Infosystems wins Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board’s RAPDRP project
The project will help in establishing an integrated IT solution for meter reading, billing and collection, energy auditing and accounting
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EMS launches Data Center-in-a-Box
EMS says the Data Center-in-a-Box technology will provide more than 50 percent savings in data center cooling costs
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EMC sees demand for de-duplication in virtualized environments
With virtualized environments causing I/O congestion for enterprises, EMC is finding good demand for its de-duplication technologies
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‘A time to optimize IT infrastructure’
EMC has made mammoth investments in India and has set new standards for network storage. Manoj Chugh, President – EMC India & SAARC, told Brian Pereira about EMC’s new mission to help businesses optimize their IT infrastructure
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800 billion Zettabytes of digital information created in 2009, observes EMC study
Study estimates that the amount of digital information in 2010 will be equal to digital information created by every man, woman and child on earth “Tweeting” continuously for hundred years
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HP launches next generation SAN and tape storage solutions
HP claims that the new products will improve capacity utilization while reducing TCO
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EMC claims faster deduplication with GDA
Called the Global Deduplication Array, the new storage system can accommodate up to 270 concurrent backup jobs
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Netapp to acquire Bycast
Bycast is expected to extend NetApp’s position in unified storage by adding an object-based storage software offering
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MFP market in India grew 36 percent in first quarter of 2010: Gartner
The project is aimed at ensuring proper distribution of food rationing and other benefits to people living below the poverty line
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HCL Infosystems bags order to implement smart card-based PDS
PC sales touch 22.40 lakh units, while notebook PC sales cross 8 lakh units in a quarter
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India PC sales record 33 percent growth in first quarter of 2010
WebOS will be leveraged across numerous devices, including Internet-connected printers and slate computers, said HP
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HP to bring Palm WebOS to printers
Almost half of Citrix employees bring their own computer to work, taking advantage of a company subsidy to select the laptop they prefer
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Citrix Employees Use Personal Laptops For Work
The hardware major is positioning itself as a complete provider in the education segment by tying up with India’s largest technology driven education company, Educomp
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Dell takes aim at education segment by partnering with Educomp
Verizon Business is branching out into cloud services, including identity management, in partnership with Novell
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Verizon, Novell Offer ID Management Service
Steve Jobs cites security, poor performance and no support for touch-based interfaces as problems with Adobe's cross-platform browser plug-in
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Apple CEO Explains Flash Ban
Migration helps bank do away with 21 hub locations across the country
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Lakshmi Vilas Bank migrates networks to MPLS
Roambi, QlikTech, and MicroStrategy are among business intelligence software vendors taking advantage of the Apple tablet's screen real estate
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Mobile BI apps target iPad
The iPad hasn't even been out for two weeks yet and there is already a Linux rival to the iconic device
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Linux based iPad rival
Unseasonably strong hardware sales in first quarter sets up 2010 for solid IT spending growth
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Worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3 percent in 2010: Gartner
The department of Homeland Security wants Apple, LG, Qualcomm and Samsung to make phones to fight chemical terrorism
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Future iPhone could gain sense of smell
Called the Windows Multipoint Server 2010, the operating system allows multiple stations to draw their processing power from a single traditional desktop PC
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Microsoft unveils OS for education sector
With the iPad jailbroken, it's now possible to install applications by bypassing the Apple App store
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iPad hacked
Softlink Logistic Systems in its recent study has observed that investment in IT by the logistics sector has doubled to 14 percent in 2010 compared to the previous year
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Indian logistics sector to invest Rs 10 million in IT in 2010
Juniper Networks to provide an all-in-one networking solution to 600 of the bank’s branches nationwide
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Indian Overseas Bank picks Juniper Networks for branch network upgrade
Cisco’s core technology and security solutions deployed for business efficiency
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NSE selects Cisco to enhance network performance, security and scalability
Part of the HP converged infrastructure portfolio, HP claims that the new servers will allow customers to reduce CAPEX, energy costs and software licensing fees by 97 percent
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HP launches new generation of ProLiant servers
Called iProf, the seven inch touch screen tablet will feature content from various educational institutes across the country
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iProf, India's first personal education tablet
The company will now offer its entire range of structured cabling solutions, cable management tools and accessories in the country
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New hack pinpoints cell phone user's location, personal and business relationships
Researchers demonstrate a technique that exploits the cell phone infrastructure to compromise cell user's privacy
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SAP buys Sybase for USD 5.8 billion
The deal establishes a new focus for the company and demonstrates the growing importance of mobile technology
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Interop: Mobile security is weak link
Despite their growing prevalence in the enterprise, smartphones are the poor cousin when it comes to data protection—and that has to change
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Zylog introduces ERP and CRM apps for cloud and mobile
The add-on suite for Microsoft Dynamics will automate the numerous business processes involved in CRM and ERP applications
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New Twitter app for BlackBerry
RIM has introduced a new version of the Twitter application for its BlackBerry smart phones with improved tweeting and search features
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Less than 10 percent of PCs sold to enterprises in 2015 will have touchscreens
Gartner predicts that the younger generation will begin to use touchscreen computers ahead of enterprises
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Mobile App use to soar this year
Samsung's Bada operating system and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 are expected to help drive demand for mobile applications
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LinkedIn application for BlackBerry released
The professional networking website has announced the launch of an application for BlackBerry smartphones
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Unified Communications’ day has arrived
It seems that all those studies on collaboration along with a couple of years of Web 2.0 messaging have had their effect on us
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"Our products and technologies will be the foundation for Borderless Networks"
Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco tells us why she thinks that the troika of video, virtualization and cloud computing will push enterprise-level productivity to a new level
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Orange Business Services appoints Bala Mahadevan as India CEO
In this role, Mahadevan will be responsible for driving business growth for the company in India in the network related services and IT services domains
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Siemens Enterprise Communications and T-Systems now speak with one voice
This new agreement will let Siemens Enterprise Communications and T-Systems simplify migration
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Videoconferencing booming during flight ban
Travelers stranded by the Icelandic volcano are using telepresence and videoconferencing to stay in contact with their businesses
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CSC launches Unified Communications as a service
Targeted at Fortune 1000 companies, this offering is based on Cisco’s collaboration portfolio
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How Unified Communications is Transforming India Inc
Forced into taking action by a recessionary environment, Indian businesses are using the transformative power of Unified Communications for multiple activities such as R&D, large deal pursuits, proposal management and even for customer interactions
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Sify to provide India landing station for GBI’s sub-sea cable
With a design capacity of up to 5 terabits per second, the cable system will provide onward connectivity to India
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Twitter bug fix drops followers to zero
The micro-blogging service plans to restore follower lists to a time before the bug was being exploited
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Google Goggles translates text in images
The Android-based image recognition software can now read text in five languages and offer a translation in many more
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Google refines search results page
Expect design changes and under-the-hood tweaks to improve Google search results pages
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Twitter launches embeddable Tweets
The tool generates static HTML to display tweets on a Web site or blog
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Face.com opens up to developers
The facial recognition software company is making it possible for developers to start building applications that recognize human beings
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Facebook opens up social tools to broader Web
At its developer conference, the soc-net powerhouse let loose plug-ins which will extend its platform throughout the Web and potentially strengthen its hand versus Google
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Malicious activity on Internet on the rise in India, observes Symantec
The company in its Internet Security Threat Report has observed that India has moved up from 11th in 2008 to 5th in 2009, in terms of overall malicious activity on the Internet
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Google launches tool for finding best online deals
With the help of this new technology, Google users will receive information about products and prices from more than 30 thousand Indian Internet sites
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Buyers Guide To Cloud E-Mail
As more companies consider software as a service e-mail, here is what to consider
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Buyers Guide To Cloud E-Mail
As more companies consider software as a service e-mail, here is what to consider
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EMC sees demand for de-duplication in virtualized environments
With virtualized environments causing I/O congestion for enterprises, EMC is finding good demand for its de-duplication technologies
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‘Application owners want the infrastructure to be secure multi-tenant’
As data centers become increasingly virtualized there are a new set of challenges to be tackled. Brian Pereira caught up with Rajesh Janey, President – India and SAARC, NetApp, to discuss customer concerns, and how NetApp is addressing these issues through its storage efficiency drive and solutions
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Citrix offers free encryption for virtualized application data
Citrix's safe zone folder encrypts data on end users' desktops and laptops from virtualized applications
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Virtual Desktops simplify IT management at TrendsInVogue
The firm which runs a chain of Family Salons in India has deployed virtual desktops at more than 60 locations
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Private Cloud adoption will accelerate
Dr Stephen Herrod, CTO and Senior VP of R&D, VMware, in an exclusive interview, outlines VMware’s plan to deliver IT-as-a-service within organizations, and also speaks about the next wave in virtualization
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McAfee partners with Citrix to provide better virtual desktop security
The two companies will develop security solutions for VDI-based virtual desktops that centralize all virus scanning and virus signature file updates, off-loading the processing intensive actions from the individual VMs
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Enterprise data center : Still the core of business tranformation
Though SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and the idea of private/public clouds is getting a lot of attention, the enterprise data center will continue to be the key focus area for CIOs
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MAIT lauds government for making e-waste rules draft public
The draft rules lay emphasis on producers to effectively manage and handle e-waste
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‘Application owners want the infrastructure to be secure multi-tenant’
As data centers become increasingly virtualized there are a new set of challenges to be tackled. Brian Pereira caught up with Rajesh Janey, President – India and SAARC, NetApp, to discuss customer concerns, and how NetApp is addressing these issues through its storage efficiency drive and solutions
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Are you neglecting your WAN?
Web apps and consolidated data centers are adding pressure, and video will bring more. It could be time to explore new options
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A new approach to IT Infrastructure
When it comes to deploying IT infrastructure, organizations are moving from an application-centric approach to a service-centric approach. All eyes are on your data center, which is set to undergo an unprecedented transformation
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Enterprise data center : Still the core of business tranformation
Though SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and the idea of private/public clouds is getting a lot of attention, the enterprise data center will continue to be the key focus area for CIOs
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DLP gets an open source boost
A new agent-based DLP discovery tool has been released to Google Code called OpenDLP
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‘We positioned Ubuntu as a version of Linux that was personal and non-technical’
Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux on why he thinks Ubuntu will succeed on the desktop, where other equally famed competitors have failed
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eScan introduces antivirus protection for Linux based systems
Called eScan for Linux version 3.0 the antivirus software is designed for both Linux desktops and file servers
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Inside Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 beta
New features in the distro's latest version will make it possible to run heavy I/O servers, such as database servers, in a virtual machine under Linux, company says
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Linux based iPad rival
The iPad hasn't even been out for two weeks yet and there is already a Linux rival to the iconic device
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MphasiS witnesses significant growth in open source projects
Fueled by the need for products that are light-weight, agile, and offer a precise function, the company has seen close to 80 customers adopting open source components
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