Sunday, January 16, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 15/01/2011



Jive Suffers Major Cloud Outage
Enterprise collaboration specialist hit with service disruption that knocks customers' wikis out of the virtual sky.
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DHS Invests $16M In Cybersecurity Testbed
The DETECT project will make improvements over the next five years to the Information Sciences Institute's DETERLab at the University of Southern California.
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Google Promises No Planned Downtime
A new service level agreement (SLA) for Google Apps customers strives to make Google's cloud as reliable as dial tone.
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Trio Of BlackBerries Leak
In addition to the leaked BlackBerry Dakota, details about the Storm 3, Torch 2, and latest Curve have also hit the 'net
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Microsoft Warns Of Xbox Shortages
The software maker says strong holiday sales of Xbox 360 and Kinect could mean inventory levels won't be enough to meet demand in early 2011.
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81% Of Hospitals To Seek EHR Incentives
The federal government could pay out as much as $27 billion over 10 years, based on high rates of electronic health record adoption.
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Social Networking Now, Mobile Later For Corporate Intranets
A Nielsen Norman Group study of the "best" corporate intranets found many already integrating Enterprise 2.0 and social features with mobile projected to be the next frontier.
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Botnets Resurge After Holiday Break
After going dark for about a week, the Waledac and Rustock botnets suddenly resurfaced and began unleashing large quantities of pharmaceutical spam.
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CIA Invests In Secure Virtualization, Infrastructure Monitoring
Teradici and Red Seal, developers of secure desktop virtualization technology and continuous security infrastructure monitoring, respectively, have formed investment and development agreements with In-Q-Tel, the CIA-based investment firm.
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Hacker Pleads Guilty To Cyber 'Sextortion'
California man faces up to six years in jail for charges related to stealing 230 women's online identities to access information from their email and Facebook accounts.
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iPhone Users To Ditch AT&T In Droves
Apple's decision to allow Verizon into the iPhone market is bad news for its existing carrier partner.
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Lessons In iPhone App Advertising
Forget AdMob and Facebook. Flurry is giving away free money.
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Worldwide Internet Use Approaches 2 Billion
Royal Pingdom's 2010 year-end report reveals staggering figures about the growth of social media, email, online video, spam, and the Internet overall.
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53% Midsize Businesses Plan To Increase IT Spend
IBM study finds midmarket companies are shifting their primary focus from cost cutting to infrastructure investments, the cloud, and business analytics in 2011.
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Intel Soars To Record Earnings
Business spending, particularly in the data center group, led the chipmaker to income and revenue peaks in the fourth quarter.
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RIM Aiming For 1 Million Q1 PlayBook Sales
Research In Motion is preparing to launch its PlayBook tablet later this quarter. Can it ship 1 million by March 31?
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Is An Apps Shakeup Ahead At Microsoft?
To compete in the enterprise with the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com, Microsoft has to take a more direct approach.
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Mathias On Mobility: RIM's BlackBerry Far From Doomed
The iPhone and Android handsets are cutting into Research In Motion's market share and the consumerzation of IT poses an even greater threat, but an enormous installed base buys time to adapt.
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iOS 4.3 Brings Multi-Touch To The iPad
Apple's latest software update will let users employ all five digits to interact with their tablets.
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Mozilla Firefox 4 Release Expected In February
One more beta version is possible as developers work through the final stages of bug cleanup before final release.
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CES Top 10 Videos: The Great, the Strange, The Comical and the Cool
Looking at the several dozen videos David Berlind, Fritz Nelson and I shot of products and edgy tech at CES, it strikes me that there's no time. No time for most of you out there to sift through all that for the coolest, strangest and oddest or funniest stuff. Which is the point anyway, right? So I spent the afternoon watching all our videos--throwing me back into that insane maelstrom of our running around like madmen/woman shooting videos--and chose what I thought were the best 10 videos based on coolness, greatness and just plain bizarre and funny. So, if you look at no other short videos from our gigantor CES coverage, here are the 10 I recommend, beginning with the most mild and leading to my No. 1 pick. I don't want to ruin it, but let me tell you. It's the MONEY shot. At least watch that one. Trust me. The Condom People will thank you. Ask Fritz why.
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NRF Big Show 2011: Breakthrough Technologies For Retailing
The National Retail Federation's "Big Show" in New York highlighted scores of cutting-edge retail technologies, from mobile devices and digital signage to point-of-sale systems and store-management applications. Tablet computers were everywhere, of course, though more often featured as a raffle prize designed to draw booth visitors and gather business card leads. Several exhibitors demonstrated iPad-native "clienteling" apps designed to help salespeople demonstrate and explain complicated (or out-of-stock) products. There were plenty of conventional point-of-sale terminals on display, but with smart phones quickly gaining broad use, many retailers and retail technology suppliers are developing apps and peripherals designed to work with iPhones, Android devices, and other mobile platforms.
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