Friday, February 18, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 17/02/2011




Mathias On Mobility: Will Tablets Replace PCs?
Tablets fit nicely into the brave new world of emerging cloud-based enterprise environments, shrinking IT budgets, and the general consumerization of information technology.
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Global CIO: As HP Stomps, Software Industry Shakes
The $130 billion giant's moving aggressively into software and is proving it's not afraid to stomp on some toes -- even those of trusted partners.
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RSA: HP Proposes Holistic Security
Following three recent security acquisitions, HP sees a chance to focus the enterprise security discussion on risk management.
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Schwartz On Security: Unraveling Night Dragon Attacks
Attacks launched from China against oil and gas companies used simple hacking tools and even legitimate software.
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Nvidia Announces Quad-Core Tegra Chip For Tablets
Tablet devices running the quad-core Tegra CPU, which includes a 12-core graphics processor, are slated to be available in August.
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Intel Ships Samples Of Medfield Smartphone Chip
Mounting a serious challenge to ARM, Intel plans to begin mass production of the 32-nm processor later this year.
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IBM, Nuance Envision Watson Helping Doctors
Two companies plan to apply the advanced computing system's problem-solving capabilities to improve healthcare diagnosis and treatment.
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Report Blames Northrop Grumman For Virginia Outages
A review of the week-long statewide network outage said it was caused by a combination of human error, faulty hardware, and a failure to follow best practices.
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Federal IT Budget Reflects Strategic Cuts, Innovation Investment
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says government will slash IT budgets where projects aren't working, while spending more on innovation.
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Google Subscription Service Undercuts Apple
With Google Checkout, publishers will be able to sell digital content on the Web and on devices using a variety of business models.
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HP's Half Step Back Into Data Warehousing
Vertica acquisition fills a big gap, but it also raises questions about Hewlett Packard's alliances and broader ambitions.
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Constant Contact Buys Social CRM Developer
Bantam Live was acquired by the SMB-focused online marketing firm to integrate customer data collection and management across email, social media, and other channels.
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Google Public Data Explorer Admits Public
The visualization tool can now be used to create graphs and charts from personally provided data sets.
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Android Trojan Practices Click Fraud
HonTouTou malware hidden with repackaged -- typically, pirated -- applications first surfaced on third-party online software markets in China.
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Oracle Releases Database Firewall
Software monitors databases in real time to prevent SQL injection attacks or unauthorized behavior.
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Open Government May Do More Harm Than Good
A Congressional Research Service report suggests that the expense, information security risks, and workflow disruption may not make the Obama administration's transparency directive worthwhile.
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Telligent Integrates With SharePoint 2010
The platform, now in beta, unites Telligent's social community software and Microsoft's document collaboration tools to boost enterprise collaboration.
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Motorola Can't 'Envision' Using Windows Phone 7
Reinforcing its commitment to Android, representatives of the handset maker shot down suggestions that it use Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Twitter Trends Driven By Mainstream Media
Traditional news outlets are more influential than bloggers and individual tweeters, says an HP Labs analysis of 16.32 million tweets on 3,361 topics sent over 40 days.
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IBM's Watson Puts Human Rivals In Jeopardy
Big Blue's supercomputer wins both Daily Doubles, but thinks Toronto is a U.S. city.
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FDA Seeks To Speed Innovative Medical Device Reviews
The proposed Innovation Pathway would fast-track premarket evaluations for breakthrough healthcare technologies.
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Adaptive Adds Automated Provisioning To Moab Suite
Moab 6.0 can automatically initiate live migration of virtual machines and distribute workloads across a server cluster.
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Motorola Confirms Xoom Tablet Price At $799
Priced to compete with the Apple iPad, the Wi-Fi only Xoom will cost "around" $600 but adding a 3G modem pushes the price higher.
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IBM Introduces Workload-Optimized Data Center Systems
The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension adds functionality to IBM's mainframe system, allowing integration and management of Power 7 and x86 blade servers.
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