Friday, October 7, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 07/10/2011





Technology industry figures pay tribute to Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs
Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 after his second bout of medical leave since the start of the year.

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Video is future of communication, claims Cisco CEO John Chambers
Video will be the future for all forms of communication, claims John Chambers, CEO of networking company Cisco.

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UBS systems detected $2bn rogue trader fraud, admits CEO Sergio Ermotti
UBS interim CEO Sergio Ermotti has admitted systems in the banks IT infrastructure detected the unauthorised trading of the rogue trader who cost UBS over $2bn, but nothing was done about the warning signals.

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Salesforce chief Marc Benioff compares Larry Ellison to 'oppressive dictator'
Marc Benioff, head of Salesforce.com, has given his swan song speech at Oracle Open World, comparing Larry Ellison to an oppressive dictator. He expressed disappointment at Ellison's decision to reschedule Benioff's talk for after the conference officially ends.

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Oracle announces public cloud to host long-awaited Fusion applications
Oracle's Fusion applications comprise around 100 products from Oracle's JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel systems, with business intelligence embedded into them.

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