Thursday, January 13, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 13/01/2011



Global CIO: Microsoft Launching Cloud Attack On Enterprise Stack
CEO Steve Ballmer is realigning Microsoft's enterprise products as he prepares to take on IBM, Oracle, and SAP for major enterprise deals.
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Guerra On Healthcare: Beginning Of The End For Meditech?
The health IT stalwart's focus on the standalone community hospital market may be blinding it to the changing needs of its customers.
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Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC Still Pursuing Novell Patents
The four-company consortium, CPTN Holdings, plans to buy hundreds of Novell patents, despite withdrawing its plan from German regulators; a move Microsoft has asserted was merely procedural.
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Google Chrome Adds WebM Video, Drops H.264
The Web video cold war has broken into open conflict.
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Pano Logic Introduces Desktop Virtualization Device
The "zero footprint" device offers low energy requirements and flexible server-side software that is interoperable with the Citrix, VMWare, and Hyper-V platforms.
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CES Tablet Extravaganza: Motorola, RIM, Toshiba & Asus Stand Out
CES provided a tableau of what buyers can expect in tablets, nearly all of them evolutionary hardware improvements over the currently-shipping iPad, none of them available now, and most of them, predictably, clones. Here's a guide, based on a modest round of discussions and demonstrations at a frenzied CES; videos included where appropriate.
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5 Paths To The New Data Integration
Embedded, automatic and easy new approaches meet growing demands for do-it-yourself data analysis.
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The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2011

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Verizon iPhone 4: Unanswered Questions
Verizon and Apple have revealed a lot about the iPhone 4 for Verizon's network, but left plenty unsaid.
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SSA Taps Lockheed For Disability System Overhaul
The contract, worth up to $200 million over six years, will consolidate 54 existing systems in an effort to speed the claims process.
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Jaspersoft Enhances BI Web Application Integration
The UI framework in version 4 of the eponymous, open-source business intelligence suite allows for embedding BI into Web applications.
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Verizon Exec: iPad To Have CDMA Radio, Too
Francis Shammo, chief financial officer of Verizon Communications, said today that Apple will soon make a version of the iPad with a CDMA radio installed.
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WoW: Cataclysm Sales Spark Hiring Spree At Blizzard
To keep up with demand for its new MMORP, game developer is looking for artists, level designers, technical writers, and software engineers.
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Google Hosts Online Science Contest
The Google Science Fair is open to full-time students between the ages of 13 and 18 with a computer and an Internet connection. Get ready for some serious global competition.
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MySpace Slashes Staff By Half
Executives are said to be getting MySpace's financial house in order before News Corp. begins shopping the site to potential buyers.
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Apple Plays It Safe With CDMA-Only iPhone
Verizon Wireless and Apple today announced a CDMA version of the iPhone 4. It is 3G only, no LTE 4G on board.
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White House Loses Open Government Leader
Deputy CTO Beth Noveck's departure marks the second high-ranking resignation from the Office of Science and Technology Policy in less than a month.
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Worst Kept Verizon iPhone Secret Revealed
Verizon claims service is so much faster, they almost called it the 6G.
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EHR Spending To Hit $3.8 Billion In 2015
Double-digit growth in the electronic health record software market will be driven largely by government incentive deadlines, finds study.
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Drupal 7 Faces Challenges From ERP, CRM
Open source CMS confronts Enterprise 2.0 demands for integration of enterprise software systems under standards enabling interoperability across all departments.
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Microsoft's January Patch Missing Fixes For Five Flaws
The company's patch process seems slow to respond to known vulnerabilities.
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Giffords Shooting Clouds Space Shuttle Plans
Arizona congresswoman's husband was slated to command the final flight of Endeavour as NASA prepares to mothball its fleet of orbiters.
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Red Hat Staying Put In North Carolina
Economic incentives, university partnership led Linux developer to continue hanging its hat in the Raleigh area.
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57% Of SMBs Have No Disaster Recovery Plan
Symantec study finds that one in four of the small and midsize businesses surveyed don't view computer systems as critical to business.
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Java Attacks Spiking
Researchers see increase in malicious Trojans favoring built-in Java functionality over application-related vulnerabilities.
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