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Its merger with Sun Microsystems finally closed, Oracle is moving on to new acquisitions. The first: AmberPoint, an SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) management outfit that the company says fits well with its Fusion Middleware offering. [Source: Digital Daily / 02-08]

Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced the availability of BIO-key's fingerprint ID solution as part of the standard release of IBM Tivoli Access Manager [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-08]

The Winter Games in Vancouver, which kick off on Friday, rely on thousands of servers and PCs to manage everything from scores to travel plans. Magnus Alvarsson has to make sure everything is working. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-08]

Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council, explains what his organization is doing to keep payment card data out of the hands of criminal hackers. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-08]

Just because you have an abundance of data and expensive tools doesn't mean you're making good use of them. [Source: Forbes - Technology / 02-08]

Defense-Dispatch - PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense - Space shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn sky above Florida's Space Coast on Monday with a 4:14 a.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The s... [Source: Defense-Dispatch.com / 02-08]

TechNewsSource - Gartner - Gartner, Inc has identified seven non-technology-based factors that organisations need to pay close attention to in order to attain business process management (BPM) success. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-08]

Channel Recap - The Register - Double the thread count IBM is launching the first of its Power7-based systems today, and the company thinks that the innovations inside the Power7 processor are going to give it a leg-up on the competition in terms of capacity, ... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-08]

Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres, will participate in an InformationWeek virtual event this week to discuss new requirements around building stronger governance in the public cloud. [Source: Business Wire / 02-08]

Google's recent update to their search engine has established a new pecking order in search engine results pages. The latest version of Google search has been named Caffeine, and represents a whole new era where the world's most powerful search engine aims to ... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 02-08]

Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday. [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Samsung Electronics Co. and Sharp Corp. agreed to end all patent-infringement litigation against each other and cross-license technology related to liquid- crystal displays. [Source: Business Week - Technology / 02-08]

International Business Machines Corp., the largest computer-services provider, is introducing new server systems today, aiming to bolster its leading position as software rival Oracle Corp. enters the market. [Source: Business Week - Technology / 02-08]

Acer Inc., the world's second-largest personal-computer vendor, plans to boost sales of more- profitable servers this year as it takes on Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. in offering computers to companies. [Source: Business Week - Technology / 02-08]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced the Samsung S2 Portable, a fully transportable external hard drive, pre-loaded with the movie 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT'. Timed with t... [Source: Business Wire / 02-08]

McAfee released updates to its award-winning 2010 consumer product line-up. [Source: Business Wire / 02-08]

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that Murray Rode, chief operating officer, and Sydney Carey, chief financial officer, will present at the upcoming 2010 Thomas Weisel Partners Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco, California at ... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 02-08]

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced COLT, a leading European provider of data, voice and managed services, has selected TIBCO's cloud software to provide organizations throughout Europe with the ability to deploy and manage enterprise applicatio... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 02-08]

Big Blue's powerful new processor for servers integrates eight processing cores in one chip package, with each core capable of executing four tasks. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-08]

Security suite vendor McAfee debuts their 2010 product line today, introducing an overhauled interface and new features in a bid to remain competitive. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-08]

The software maker is helping NBC deliver HD video of the Olympic Games using Silverlight, offering new features, including the ability to pause a live event. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-08]

As the Oracle-Sun combo heats up hardware competition, IBM's Power7 servers aim to dominate. [Source: Forbes - Technology / 02-08]

Yelp turned down a bid of more than $700 million from Microsoft (MSFT), according to Business Week. The magazine also repeated a previous report that the online user review site rejected a bid of $550 million from Google (GOOG). [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 02-08]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow Central Europe - The latest version of Murata's pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensor is the world's smallest at just 5.0 x 4.7 x 2.4mm, enabling the sensor to be used in compact, low profile electronic devices and equipment. [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 02-08]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow Central Europe - Walsin Ultra high Q & low ESR MLCC (RF series) [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 02-08]

Bell Microproducts Inc., a value-added distributor of storage and computing technology, has reportedly signed a distribution agreement with Force10 Networks, a networking solutions technology player that serves the data center, service provider and enterprise ... [Source: TMCnet / 02-07]

Mozilla, which recently released its Weave Sync add-on for the Firefox has released a set-of APIs that will allow developers to use Weave Sync services in new products independent of Firefox. Weave services offer an opportunity to build new apps that leverage ... [Source: GigaOM / 02-07]

Did anyone catch Avnet CEO Roy Vallee’s appearance on Mad Money with Jim Cramer last week? I’m not regular viewer of the show. Cramer’s style is a little over the top for my taste. But after seeing a tweet from an Avnet rep on Twitter about the segment and receiving the ... [Source: Now Hear This! / 02-07]

Microsoft has plenty to feel good about about these days [Source: DailyTech / 02-07]

Channel Recap - IT Business Edge - Love it or hate it, one thing is true: Social media applications are here to stay, at least through the foreseeable future. Gartner recently announced its five social media software predictions for 2010 and the future :   ... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - InfoWorld - Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox . Mozilla stopped supporting Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, in September 2009, but left a large amount of Tige... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - IT Business Edge - IBM has opened a 60,000-square-foot data center in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Part of a $362 million investment, the data center ultimately will total 100,000 square feet, says ITProPortal .   The data center... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - InformationWeek - The database giant is proposing to make a high-end business out of integrated application stacks built on UltraSparc hardware. [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - The VAR Guy - When it comes to SharePoint, there's no middle ground: Folks are either profiting from the Microsoft platform, or competing fiercely with it. Microsoft sells at least $1 billion worth of SharePoint annually. And on Feb. 10, ShareP... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - CNET - Business Tech - Bug fixes, interface refinements, and a revamped browser engine are built into the first test version of Mozilla's new e-mail software. Originally posted at Deep Tech [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - The Register - Red Hat and Ubuntu de-fluffed When it comes to the cloud, there's Linux and then there's Linux, and Igor Seletskiy believes he's built a Linux better than the current generation of distros for service providers serving up tens of... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - ChannelWeb - The new midmarket account strategy marks what may well be the biggest sales changes in the history of the company aimed at getting HP partners, HP sales reps and HP's top executive team all working together, hand-in-hand to sell mo... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - The VAR Guy - Bomgar, with an assist from Intel's Remote PC Assist Technology (RPAT), hopes to help VARs and MSPs improve remote PC support. Here are the details, along with perspectives from adopter PlumChoice, which specializes in remote serv... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - The VAR Guy - Here's an interesting tidbit out of Redmond: Microsoft is looking for Road Warriors to work with their New Zealand branch. The deal? Up to $43,000, but you'll have to hustle around for four months touting the awesomeness of Office... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - SearchITChannel - Sun channel hopes for Oracle licensing changes and less-than-expected channel conflict on hardware deals. [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - Linux.com - Fedora or Ubuntu? That is a question that Linux users are asking with increasing frequency. Bruce Byfield gives an answer. [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - Network World - The recession continues to be no barrier to acquisitions with the news that PGP Corporation has reached into its pockets to buy German encryption services company TC TrustCenter. [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - The Register - Not exactly wild blue yonder Mainframe maker Unisys wants a little good news ahead of reporting its fourth quarter 2009, and the US Department of Defense was happy to oblige. The Defense Information Systems Agency, the IT arm of ... [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

Channel Recap - InfoWorld - Salesforce.com on Wednesday will offer a process management capability to make it easier to devise business processes for deployment on the company's Force.com cloud computing platform. [Source: Channel Recap / 02-07]

SAP AG Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker unexpectedly resigned after the world's largest business-management software maker's supervisory board decided not to extend his mandate. [Source: Business Week - Technology / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Better Projects - Arguments for how to manage software requirements tend to be polemic , because it's easier to argue against something than for something. Waterfall development manages requirements from an up front plan that is fixed in scope... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

SOA World - We seem on the verge of repeating the mistakes associated with failed SOA implementations: ignoring the larger issue of architecture. Everyone - from pundit to public - is asking the same question: Where are the network virtual appliances? Bu... [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 02-07]

SOA Consortium Insights - In October, the SOA Consortium announced the successful completion of its mission as well as plans to merge with the BPM Consortium.‚  Since January, the organizations have been working together to formalize the merged consortium's mi... [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 02-07]

The Java Posse - Devoxx Interview with Stephen Colbourne [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 02-07]

Seagate Technology ( STX ) supplies hard disk drives (HDDs) for the enterprise storage, personal computer, and consumer electronics markets. STX generates half of its sales in the Asia Pacific region, 26% in North America, a... [Source: Seeking Alpha / 02-07]

SAS has been named a leader among nine vendors in The Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics and Data Mining Solutions. [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

Gartner, Inc. has combined three of its most popular security-focused conferences into one new four-program summit - the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, which takes place June 21-23 in Washington D.C. Four complete programs within the Summit will dr... [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for business and personal computing, announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering 'Windows Azure' at the Cloud Computing Congress, http://... [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

Europe's Premier Technology Services Conference Featured Capgemini, Dell, EMC, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Siemens, Symantec, Vovici, Xerox [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

Micro Focus today announces four new product releases that will be fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

CMS Products, Inc. (www.cmsproducts.com), an award-winning developer of data security, backup, disaster recovery and content management technologies, today announced that it has joined CompTIA, the leading trade association for the IT industry. CMS Products is... [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

Shareholders of Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) and of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today approved Xerox's acquisition of ACS. [Source: Business Wire / 02-07]

Imagine you are performing a mapping in Oracle Service Bus where a field in your source message may contain one of a number of different values which gets mapped to one of a number of different values in the target message, e.g. you might need to map airport n... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 02-07]

Cloud computing casts a shadow over content delivery networks. [Source: Barrons Technology / 02-07]

If Motorola spins off its cellphone unit, its stock could rally 40%. [Source: Barrons Technology / 02-07]

Longtime Portland Executive will be Recognized at the TechAmerica Oregon Technology Awards Event in May [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that NetSuite CFO Jim McGeever will present at Thomas Weisel Partners' Annual Technology & Telecom Conference on Monday, February [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

SunGard today announced that it has acquired Inmatrix, a leading provider of credit risk analysis and business forecasting solutions. Inmatrix, based in Melbourne, Australia, offers two credit management solutions: Optimist, which helps evaluate the credi [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has chosen Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 for high-tech industries to accelerate business decision-making by replacing the production and financial capabilities of a dozen legacy and o [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

Saying a disaster can happen anytime, anywhere, Ret. Lt. General Russel Honore, who is best known for his management of recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina, urges individuals and organizations to improve preparedness in a new SunGard Availability Serv... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

In response to the tragedy in Haiti, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor is donating $100,000 to assist with Haiti humanitarian relief efforts.  When the earthquake struck Haiti a little over three weeks ag [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

Oracle veteran and MySQL sympathizer Ken Jacobs has resigned from the database giant, calling into question Oracle's ability to deliver on its MySQL promises. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

Microsoft is getting set to phase out its FAST enterprise search offerings for Linux and Unix. Will customers move to cloud-based search or move to Windows? [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

Even as Oracle kills off the critically acclaimed Sun cloud offering, it prepares a PR blitz to proclaim its cloud strategy: the software arms dealer to the cloud-computing stars. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

Mozilla pulled two Firefox add-ons from the Mozilla add-ons Web site this morning for containing malware. Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer were found containing Trojan code aimed at Windows users. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

Environmental software isn't just for complying with laws. SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf says forward-looking companies are managing natural resources to save money and lower risk. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

After four-plus years at Alfresco, it's time for the author of CNET's The Open Road to move on to a new challenge, as COO of Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

Motorola (MOT) shares are moving higher this morning after Barclays Capital analyst Jeff Kvaal upped his rating on the stock to Overweight from Equal Weight, while keeping his price target at $9. The stock closed yesterday at $6.32. Our checks indicate Android... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 02-07]

Ciena (CIEN), which just yesterday received an upgrade from Pacific Crest, today is trading lower on a downgrade by Barclays Capital analyst Jeff Kvaal. Kvaal lowers his rating to Equal Weight from Overweight, while maintaining his $14 price target. He says th... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 02-07]

SAP's CEO resigned today. SAP will return to a co-CEO structure, replaced by Bill McDermott, head of field organisation, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development. [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 02-07]

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TechNewsSource - Microsoft Enterprise Search - Innovation is at the heart of our enterprise search strategy, and a commitment to innovation is what brought FAST and Microsoft together.  When we announced the acquisition two years ago, we said that we were comm... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Cisco - Please find below a statement from Cisco on resolution of the Cisco-Ward litigation: The parties are happy to report that the disputes among them have been resolved to their mutual satisfaction and... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Oracle Database Podcasts - Jim Shumway and Angelo Romano discuss why Oracle Real Application Clusters was the ideal platform to scale the State of Connecticut's Core-CT systems for all their employees and agencies. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Video - Mark McDonald, Gartner, Discusses CIO Priorities in 2010 [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - One of my major areas of research is in application security , helping clients to change their development ( and procurement!) processes to deliver more secure code. This is imperative. However, an equally important appl... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Better Projects - I recently saw an email from a project sponsor that simply replied SCOPE CREEP! in response to the BA's concerns about whether the report being made as part of the project was going to adequately cover the business needs of t... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Gartner - Gartner, Inc. has combined three of its most popular security-focused conferences into one new four-program summit - the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, which takes place June 21-23 in Washington D.C. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Rich Murnane - I've got a bag of Oracle PL/SQL tricks that I carry around with me from project to project and one of them is a simple little function I created to profile a string. Profiling strings is a useful technique when your not sure wh... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Forrester - AD - As an analyst at Forrester I always look forward to December - not because it's the end of the year or that I have the balance of my vacation days to use up (best laid plans...); December is when we usually get a fresh batch o... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - People are the single biggest factor in determining the effectiveness of IT, according to CIOs responding to the 2010 Gartner Executive Programs CIO Survey.‚  People were the biggest factor in 2009, 2008, 2007 you get t... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - eWeek reports that Microsoft will issue 13 security bulletins next week, covering 26 different Windows vulnerabilities. ‚ If you are, like me, in the Washington DC area, that is about 1 vulnerability for each inch of sno... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Microsoft - Top Stories - Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and social computing prove enterprising during startup competition. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Fujitsu - Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., the market leader in document imaging scanners and services, today introduced the latest breakthrough in production-level scanning - the Fujitsu fi-6800. The latest mid-volume production... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Websense [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

DistributionDaily.net - Avnet Blog: The Soft Pitch - No red carpet or Joan Rivers asking what folks wore to the ceremony because there was no ceremony. ‚ Knowing me there will be an event in 2010. Even without fanfare it was pretty cool to announce the best vi... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 02-07]

DistributionDaily.net - Avnet Blog: Community Relations - Pamela Cox-Nulman, APR, CPRC,‚  guest blogger Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.‚  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead It is e... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 02-07]

It looks like sales of Google's Nexus One haven't really improved since we checked in on them last. According to the same Flurry mobile analytics team who estimated 20,000 sales in week one , the Nexus One at least held pace to turn in about 80,000 sales in it... [Source: Mashable! / 02-07]

According to market research firm IDC, vendors shipped 54.5 million smartphone devices in the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of 39 percent compared to the same period in 2008. A lot of this growth can be attributed to Apple and their iPhone, which has g... [Source: Mashable! / 02-07]

The word that Google has decided to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 as of March 1 will come as welcome but bittersweet news to designers and developers who have wrestled for years to make perfectly compliant sites work properly in that wretched browser. [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - The Gates Notes - With more than 250 lectures from some of the world's leading professors, The Teaching Company provides the opportunity to learn from great teachers who are true experts in their fields. Bill offers recommendations for some of th... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]