Friday, January 21, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 20/01/2011




Obama Directs Agencies To Post Regulatory Information Online
Federal agencies must make rulemaking and enforcement information available for the public to view, download, and search.
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Britain Facing IT Worker Shortage
U.K. businesses need to hire 110,000 technology and telecom employees this year, and a half-million over the next five years.
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Top 11 Mobile Predictions For 2011
The meteoric rise of wireless will further accelerate in the new year, with expanded adoption of 4G, tablets, smartphones, and other technology in the consumer and enterprise markets.
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The Top 10 Security Predictions For 2011

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U.S. SMBs Lag In Disaster Recovery Readiness
Study finds that legacy equipment and lack of executive buy-in lead American firms to trail global counterparts in their ability to bounce back from an IT disaster.
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FEMA To Use Social Media For Emergency Response
Administrator Craig Fugate discusses the agency's plans to employ text messaging, GPS, and other tools for improved 'situational awareness' and disaster relief.
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AMD Takes Fusion Processors To Embedded Systems
The G-series chips compete with Intel's combo graphics-CPU processors, and are targeted toward Internet-enabled set-top boxes, thin clients, and point-of-sale kiosks.
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Amazon EC2 Gains An Elastic Beanstalk
The automated system takes over scaling decisions for workload submitters.
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Microsoft Releases Vulnerability Analysis Tool
Attack Surface Analyzer, available as a free beta, assesses operating system weaknesses which emerge after an install or an attack.
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Obama Orders FDA To Streamline Medical Tech Regulations
Executive order signed the same day PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that the U.S. is losing ground on medical device innovations, partially due to the agency's cumbersome and costly approval process.
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IBM, ARM Team Up On Tablet Chips
Big Blue will lend its advanced fabrication techniques to ARM's next generation of mobile processors.
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Amazon Web Services Simplifies App Deployment
A service called Elastic Beanstalk aims to serve as an on-ramp to the cloud.
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Malware Volume Doubled In 2010
A new threat appears more than once each second, as attackers increasingly turn their attention to social networks, reported Sophos.
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Netizens Are More Active Citizens
Pew study finds 85% of Twitter users, 82% of social networkers, and 75% of Americans donate their time to community groups.
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Apple Sells 15M iPads In 2010, Dismisses Competition
Apple's latest earnings report show that it sold more than 15 million iPads in 2010. Apple execs were sure to take a poke at the iPad's "bizarre" and "weak" competitors.
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Verizon To Continue Rapid Cloud Ramp
The firm will rapidly expand its cloud offerings, with platform-based services, customer relationship management, and enterprise resourcThe telecom provider will expand its cloud computing offerings with platform-based services, and upcoming CRM and ERP apps.e planning launching in 2011.
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Ubuntu Linux Getting Qt Toolkit
The Nokia toolkit will enable developers to write Web-enabled applications once, and deploy them across multiple platforms.
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Lenovo Forms Tablet, Smartphone Product Group
The reorganization reflects the computer maker's push into the consumer Internet device market.
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RhoSync Brings Salesforce.com Social Apps To iPhone, Android
Version 2.1 delivers integration with Salesforce's Chatter and REST APIs, allowing mobile workers ready access to a company's collaboration applications.
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Apple Q1 Profits Almost Double
Apple announced record revenues and earnings on soaring iPhone and iPad sales, but didn't discuss Steve Jobs's medical leave.
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Social Network Frenzy Signals Another Tech Bubble
Some say the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Groupon deserve to be measured by a different yardstick. But that's what they said about the infamous flameouts of ten years ago.
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