Thursday, February 3, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 02/02/2011




Microsoft: Missing the Mark in Mobile
Even if Microsoft can't be an innovator in mobile, it's essential that disparate mobile technologies integrate as seamlessly as possible with the plethora of Microsoft enterprise technologies.
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Google Opens the Kimono on Android 3.0 OS
Press to get a deep look at Honeycomb at Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley at 9:45 a.m. PT
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Usage Of Flash To Recreate Deleted Cookies Minimal
But research suggests regulation may be needed to deal with that companies that track Internet users in contravention of privacy controls.
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Apple Begins Enforcing App Store Commerce Rule
Sony's Reader app for iPhone is rejected for failing to support Apple's in-app purchasing system.
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Down To Business: Why The Tech Industry Needs Founder-CEOs
Those leaders adept at keeping costs down, M&As in motion, and regulators in check will always be valuable, but they usually don't build great companies.
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Review: Google Translate A Step Toward Universal Translator
The Conversation Mode feature of the Google Translate app for Android devices makes it possible to carry out a spoken, in-person conversation and have the phone translate both sides.
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Real Time Conversation With Google Translate
Google Translate for Android smartphones offers a unique and compelling new capability. This beta feature, called Conversation Mode, makes it possible to carry out a person-to-person conversation and have the Android device translate and speak each piece of the conversation on the fly. This new conversation model feature only works for conversations between English and Spanish speakers, though the main Google Translate app supports a wide range of languages for standard phrase-by-phrase translation. In tests, the Conversation Mode proved to be surprisingly effective, especially when the English speaker and the Spanish speaker were using their native tongues. However, if pronunciation wasn't very good, the app could make a few amusing mistakes. Luckily, Google Translate's Conversation Mode let's speakers view and manually type in correct phrases when the on-the-fly translation fails.
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Global CIO: $100-Billion Tesco Kicks CIO Upstairs To CEO
As the $100-billion retailer accelerates its use of IT as a strategic weapon in its global expansion, Tesco CIO Philip Clarke will take the reins as CEO on March 1.
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Guerra On Healthcare: Will Congress Cut HITECH?
As legislators look to reduce federal spending, funding for electronic health records looks to be right in their crosshairs -- and maybe that's not so bad.
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Amazon Web Services Will Offer Oracle 11g
Amazon's EC2 cloud will no longer depend exclusively on the MySQL open source database system.
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Intel Sandy Bridge Recall Expected To Delay PCs
Cougar Point processors, the corrected versions of the 6 Series chipset, won't start shipping until late February.
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Intel Discloses Flaw In Sandy Bridge Chipset

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Gartner Quadrant Reports BI Split
Business intelligence buyers want easy data exploration. That has small, independent vendors waxing and a few BI incumbents mired in a "new normal" malaise.
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DHS To Invest $40 Million On Cybersecurity Research
Homeland Security's funding priorities include malware, insider threats, and ways to support the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative.
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Dirty Pool: Apple Trying To Steal Google's Android 3.0 Thunder
Apple leaks take edge off Google's Honeycomb showing tomorrow but, in the end, Honeycomb counts.
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SMB Search Spending Down, Efficiency Up
Yahoo-Bing posted higher a click-through rate and lower cost per click than Google in the fourth quarter, while smaller businesses scaled back search budgets slightly, but increased keyword counts, according to WebVisible.
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Apple Sued Over iPhone Data Privacy
The disclosure of Unique Device Identifiers associated with Apple's mobile devices represents a privacy law violation, the complaint claims.
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RIM PlayBook's Big Weakness: BlackBerry Required
The way that corporate email works on the PlayBook tablet, as shown in a demo video published by Research In Motion, looks like a disaster in the making.
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Internet 'Kill Switch' Bill To Be Reintroduced
Senators plan to revisit the controversial cybersecurity measure, which includes authority for the president to shut down U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a national emergency.
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10 Telling Tidbits From Microsoft's 10-Q
Investors need to look beyond the headlines and read the fine print to understand the real challenges and opportunities facing the world's biggest software company.
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Privacy, Accountability Lead Health IT Concerns
Doctors and consumers want technology to play a great role in healthcare, but demand safeguards to protect patient privacy when information is shared, finds Markle Foundation study.
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Jabra Brings Lotus Sametime Unified Communications To Headsets
The plug-in integrates capabilities such as call answer, call end, volume, mute, and remote ring detection into many of the firm's corded and Bluetooth devices.
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Windows Phone 7 Data Loss Linked To Yahoo
Microsoft says a bug in its Exchange Activesync software is causing Yahoo Mail to consumer far more data than it should.
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Electric Cloud Automates Private Environment For Developers
ElectricCommander 3.8 converts private clouds into automated development environments.
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Facebook To Open Comments Platform For External Sites
The social media site could power the reader feedback sections of news sites, blogs, and other digital publishing outlets.
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