PC Companies Make Risky Smartphone Call
Profit-hungry PC brands rushing to the booming smartphone sector are likely to falter in their ambitious plans to capture market share from formidable players such as Nokia and Apple.
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Microsoft Shrugs At Vista-To-XP Downgrade Suit
Software maker says it doesn't get a cut of fees charged for converting Vista PCs to Windows XP.
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United Concordia Deploys Real-Time Claims with Tesia-PCI
Tesia-PCI's Real Time Claims dental clearing house solution enabled a two-month ramp-up time.
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FACTBOX-Allen Stanford's Financial Empire
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, three of his companies and two other executives, were charged with "massive" fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped on his U.S. headquarters.
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Firms Need to Urgently Eliminate Singe-Points-of-Failures
A TABB Group study cites one partner of a firm deciding to invest with Madoff Securities as an example of a single-point-of-failure that can have disastrous and multiple consequences for a firm.
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CSC Launches ComplyID to Help in Red Flag Compliance
Web-based solution provides automatic detection, resolution of ID fraud attempts.
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Wells Fargo Picks Voltage to Secure E-mail
Voltage SecureMail is being used by Wells Fargo to encrypt its companywide e-mail communications.
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Visa and GSMA to Further Push Mobile Financial Services Advancements
The two organizations will expand their partnership to promote the broader deployment of mobile financial services worldwide, including standards development.
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Bank of America’s Ongoing Challenge: Effective Security Management
Effective security management requires a layering of multiple solutions focusing on people, process, technology and risk. Here's how Bank of America is meeting the challenge.
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Symantec Suite To Virtualize Windows End Users
Endpoint Virtualization Suite suite will supply a Windows desktop to end users within corporate walls, on the road, or at home.
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Canaccord Capital Expands Canadian Markets Access Through Fidessa
Canadian Broker Canaccord Capital joins Fidessa's global connectivity network to provide access to Canadian markets for global investors.
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Greek Police Investigate Citibank Bomb, TV Shooting
Greek police are investigating a failed bomb attack at Citibank's headquarters in Athens on Wednesday, hours after gunmen shot at a television station in what appeared to be the latest outbreak of left-wing violence.
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Germany drafts legislation to nationalise banks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet has approved a draft law which would allow Berlin to nationalise stricken banks and, as a last resort, expropriate their shareholders to shore up the financial system.
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Cisco Adds Security Apps To Home Wireless Routers
The hardware includes an antivirus application and can provide reports on user control violations.
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Wal-Mart Slashing Price on its Prepaid MoneyCard
To attract credit-wary shoppers, Wal-Mart cuts the price of its reloadable, prepaid Visa debit card.
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IBM Eyes Stimulus Funds For Broadband Over Power Lines
IBM's venture with IBEC has begun to sign up Internet customers in rural parts of Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and Virginia.
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Skype Headed For Nokia N Series Smartphones
The VoIP service would be accessible through the address book of the N97, enabling users to see when their Skype contacts are online and to send instant messages.
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Google's Presidents' Day Address
A company exec's rallying of Google employees leads to discussion on future offerings.
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Apple Nixes South Park iPhone App
The show's creators had hoped the application, which provides easy access to content from the show, would be offered through Apple's popular App Store.
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Sony Ericsson Unveils Mobile Movies, Smartphones
The company introduced a media-sharing service for its handsets and phones that sport 8- and 12-megapixel cameras.
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Global CIO: Why Do CIOs Get No Respect?
CIOs need to examine what they've done -- or not done -- that perpetuates the no respect mantra.
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TWIA Chooses Guidewire
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has selected Guidewire Software's Billing Center solution.
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Acer Takes The Smartphone Plunge
Details on four of the 10 Tempo smartphones Acer plans to launch this year were released Monday at the GSMA Mobile World Congress.
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Anselmo Takes CIO Job at Narragansett Bay Insurance
Former QBE Specialty Insurance CIO brings start-up savvy to regional P&C carrier.
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Address Verification Solution Helps Consumers Insurance Cut Costs
Consumers Insurance cuts premium leakage, reduces operating costs and improves customer satisfaction with Experian QAS' address verification solution.
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Nvidia Unveils Chip For $99 Internet Devices
The company's Tegra-based platform can playback 720p and 1080p high-definition video and support Wi-Fi and 3G wireless broadband.
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Nokia Expands E Series Of Smartphones
The E55 and E75 are powered by Symbian, and have Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, and access to corporate e-mails on the go.
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Thomson Reuters Launches Point in Time Data Feed for Historical Analysis
Data feed lets fund managers, quants look back at the information investors had when they drove stock price changes.
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Nokia, Qualcomm Team Up To Deliver Symbian Devices
The first mobile devices from the partnership, based on Nokia's S60 software and Qualcomm chipsets, are expected to launch in mid-2010.
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Nokia Jumps Into Application Store Game
The world's largest cell phone manufacturer will take on rivals Apple, RIM, Microsoft and Google with an app store that capitalizes on social networking features.
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Red Hat, Microsoft To Cooperate On Virtualized Environments
The goal is to improve interoperability between their respective virtualization platforms so shared IT customers have more flexibility to craft solutions.
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Down To Business: What Obama's CTO Should (And Shouldn't) Focus On
Though CIOs and CTOs abound across governmental agencies, President Obama's pick will be able to drive transformational change.
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U.S. Equities Market Structure Changes Dramatically
Technology, new pricing models, and Regulation NMS have forever changed the equities market structure, and electronic order books have become dominant, according to a new report from Celent.
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Calyon Implements Calypso for Cash Management
Investment bank expands Calypso support across back-office suite.
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Nvidia Unveils Chip Support For Android
The graphics chipmaker said it would demonstrate Android running on the Nvidia Tegra APX 2600 system on a chip at the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona.
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Consumers are Displeased with Finance Sector: U of Michigan ACSI Report
The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index shows a deterioration in good customer service at banks as the financial crisis worsens.
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Samsung Rolls Out Multimedia Smartphone Heavyweights
The Omnia HD smartphone can record in HD and has an 8-megapixel camera, while the Beat DJ mobile handset sports Bang and Olufsen sound technology.
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Oracle Releases New Version of Flexcube
Flexcube Direct Banking 5.0 brings more integration and international capabilities to Internet and mobile banking.
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Prosecutors Reduce Charges Against The Pirate Bay
Prosecutors acknowledge that the file-sharing site on trial in Sweden for allegedly infringing on film and music copyrights didn't copy files.
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Microsoft Revamps Mobile OS, Introduces App Store
Microsoft is revamping its mobile operating system and bringing services aimed at the consumer space to better compete with Apple, RIM, and Symbian.
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Federal CTO Agenda: The Industry's Advice To Obama
Think big and transformational, advise two dozen industry leaders, from CEOs to CIOs. And get going now.
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Down To Business: New Federal CTO Must Focus On Substance
The Obama administration must sort the populist and special-interest tech issues from those most critical to the country's future.
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How Federal IT Leadership Evolved Under Bush
From an e-government czar and CTO to an architect and administrator.
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India’s Central Crime Bureau Joins Satyam Probe
India's federal crime investigation bureau has joined a probe into fraud-hit Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services, Corporate Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta reported.
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Visa, MasterCard Cut Costs As Revenue Growth Slows
As cash-strapped U.S. consumers think twice before buying a coffee or a newspaper, and banks fight for survival, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. are cutting costs to sustain earnings.
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Bank of the West Selects Custom Credit Systems’ Commercial Lending Software
By automating syndications servicing process, bank aims to increase loan-processing volume without additional staff.
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