Wednesday, June 22, 2011

IT News Head Lines (TechWeb) 22/06/2011





DoubleDutch Checks In Business Activities
Foursquare-like service extends HYVE social mobile platform to sales and field service staff and promotes checking in on business, not just from locations.

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Feds Run 5 Of Top 10 Supercomputers Worldwide
Japan's K Computer and China's Tianhe-1A took the top two spots, but four Department of Energy systems and one run by NASA made the top 10 of a biannual ranking of the top 500 high-performance-computing systems.

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Adobe Content Platform Banks On Boosting Customer Experience
Flash, AIR, Reader, and other Adobe technologies can be managed via the Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management, designed to help businesses create, manage, and monitor digital content for multiple delivery channels.

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Hack Attack Exposes 1.3 Million Sega Accounts
LulzSec says to watch your Facebook, Gmail, and Skype passwords, though no one has claimed responsibility for the Sega breach.

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Mobile Apps Help Ease Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms
A UCLA study suggests that linking mobile sensors that monitor physiological functions and physical activities to smartphones may help reduce the risk of rehospitalization.

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CMS To Battle Claims Fraud With Analytics
Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor on a project to use predictive modeling to weed out fake Medicare claims before they're paid.

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CA Security Spinoff Vows To Surprise The Marketplace
Total Defense has a new name and VC funding, but it faces a tough battle against market-dominating antivirus products, most of which are free.

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4 Reasons Cloud Computing Isn't Overhyped
CIO of Schumacher Group, a midmarket physician management firm, says that as much as 85% of the company's processes are now cloud-based. Here’s why, and his advice on how to make the shift to cloud-based infrastructure.

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ICANN's Domain Name Plan Could Spell Trouble
Companies next year will be able register their own top-level domains, but the price may be more intellectual property litigation and security problems.

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RIM PlayBook's Slow Start: U.S. Carriers to Blame?
The tablet maker's best partners, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, have offered a distinct lack of support so far. That's holding RIM back from enjoying wider success.

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Huawei MediaPad Takes On Tiny Tablet Rivals
The seven-inch MediaPad tablet hopes to take on the PlayBooks, G-Slates, and EVO View 4Gs of the slate market.

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How To Sell Enterprise 2.0 To The Bosses
Here's expert advice on building an airtight business case, while avoiding the pitfalls of too-tentative pilot projects.

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IBM Boosts Social Software Compliance
Partnership with Actiance brings management and archiving of social posts to IBM Connections, allowing for compliance monitoring and efficient audit trails.

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Congress Mulls How iPads, XML Can Cut Costs
Experts suggest ways Congress can use smartphones and other technologies to cut down on paper and boost collaboration.

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Skype Enterprise Expert Not Going (Back) To Microsoft
David Gurle, who led the development of Exchange IM while at Redmond, leaves with several other Skype execs after acquisition deal.

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Feisty Ballmer Talks Cloud | Google's Big Chromebook Bet


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Guerra On Healthcare: How CIOs Can Avoid Doctor Revolt
Look at what you like--and dislike--about vendor customer service to build a hospital IT department that makes allies out of your doctors and nurses.

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How Cloud Can Improve Medical Image Sharing
One Texas health system transfers thousands of diagnostic-quality images to caregivers daily, using a secure, high-speed system that meets HIPAA requirements.

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Cloud Bill Shock: New SMB Service Fights Back
UptimeCloud aims to help users turn cloud savings hype into reality with real-time cost monitoring, analysis, and prediction tools.

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How Information Builders Battles BI Goliaths
A hybrid mobile app, data-visualization upgrades, and unsung add ons bolster the vendor's business intelligence suite.

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Nimble Social Contact Manager Launches Team Editions
Social CRM vendor headed by one of the founders of GoldMine brings product out of beta and introduces team, sales, and CRM editions.

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Enterprise 2.0: It's Still About Improving Business Performance
The momentum around Enterprise 2.0 must be harnessed to solve business problems and create new opportunities.

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Cisco Adds Hosted Option For Quad Social Software
Cisco will work with Capgemini as a system integrator and Xerox's ACS unit as a hosting provider for Quad collaboration software.

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Nokia To Debut Windows Phone In Europe
The Finnish phone maker is expected to unveil one of its only Meego-powered phones Tuesday, as it puts all its future eggs in the Microsoft basket.

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