Friday, October 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 09/10/2009



Morgan Stanley Escapes New E-mail Trial
Court says bank's evidentiary foul-up irrelevant to final outcome in Perelman case.
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Strata Fund Services Enters Alliance with HedgeOp Compliance
Fund administrator to use ComplianceTrak software for alternative investment industry clients.
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FirstBest and MajescoMastek Form Business Alliance
The alliance fuses MajescoMastek's STG Suite with the FirstBest UMS underwriting and business analyst workstation.
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First Insurance of Hawaii Selects TorrentFlood Platform
FICOH anticipate better service to flood insurance customers through transitioning to Torrent Technologies systems solutions and back office services.
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IBM Offers DB2 On Unix Rack Mount Servers
DB2 pureScale is intended to compete with Oracle Real Application Clusters and other scalable database systems.
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IBM Offers DB2 On Unix Rack Mount Servers
DB2 pureScale is intended to compete with Oracle Real Application Clusters and other scalable database systems.
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Brian King Named President at Wisemar
Banking consultancy Wisemar names King to senior leadership position.
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Lawmakers Seek Google Voice Investigation
Several members of Congress have taken AT&T's side and asked the FCC to look into Google's refusal to connect certain calls through Google Voice.
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Global CIO: IBM Is Being Railroaded By Our Clueless Justice Dept.
Column about the bizarre and wrong decision by the Justice Dept. to pursue antitrust charges against IBM for wanting to to nothing more than defend its intellectual property in the mainframe business.
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NYSE Technologies Offers News and Market Data on nyse.com
Exchange's tech arm says it is serving two to three million data requests a day.
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Netbooks Bringing Down Revenue For Laptop Market
While netbooks are driving increased laptop unit sales, overall revenue is down because netbooks are so inexpensive, according to a market research report from DisplaySearch.
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Following Review, VA Restarts Some IT Projects
CIO Roger Baker credits a new project management accountability system with facilitating decision making at the federal agency.
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Nvidia Suspends Chipset Development For Intel
Nvidia will suspend development of chipsets for Intel processors, as a casualty of a licensing dispute between the two companies.
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Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat
A free file downloading site wants to stop Mozilla from distributing a Firefox plug-in that lets users bypass its ads.
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Corporate Dress Codes For Avatars Coming Soon
Virtual worlds are here to stay and enterprises need to have policies that govern how employees behave when representing companies with avatars, Gartner says.
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Firethorn Mobile Banking Now Available on MetroPCS
MetroPCS customers can download Firethorn's m-banking application for free to bank on-the-go with Firethorn partner banks.
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Sony Intros Touchscreen PC/TV
The computer maker also announced a half-inch, 1.6 pound notebook with an 11-inch display.
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Sykes To Acquire ICT Group For $263 Million
Buyout is latest in a series of deals impacting the outsourcing sector.
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Iomega Upgrades NAS Appliance
The network attached storage device for small businesses offers easy setup features and VMware certification.
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Northeast Bank Takes New Approach to Branching
With dwindling transaction levels at the branch due to self service channels, Northeast Bank is revising its branch strategy.
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Samsung Smartphones Get Mobile VoIP
Agito is bringing enterprise-grade VoIP over Wi-Fi to Samsung smartphones, while facing competition from deep-pocketed companies like T-Mobile.
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U.S. Intelligence Pulls Plug On Cross-Agency E-Mail System
The uGov system was hailed as a step toward collaboration among intelligence experts, but the system is being phased out amid security concerns.
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RIM Releases BlackBerry Messenger 5.0
The smartphone maker's messaging service adds multiple social networking features and threaded SMS.
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Lawmakers Seek Google Voice Investigation
Several members of Congress have taken AT&T's side and asked the FCC to look into Google's refusal to connect certain calls through Google Voice.
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Motorola Unveils Wide Area Mesh AP
The AP7181 802.11n access point is likely to be beneficial to enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
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