August 2006 News
Wednesday August 30, 2006

• AT&T Hack Highlights Web Site Vulnerabilities

• Google, Microsoft Online Apps Raise Security Questions

• Safeco Launches Real-time Policy Change

• One Year After Katrina: Improved Technology Helps Insurers Weather the 2006 Hurricane Season

• Microsoft Boosts Support for Legacy Products

• Oracle Upgrades PeopleSoft Performance Management

• Most IT Pros Are Looking For A New Job, Says Survey

• IT Managers Appear To Be Everywhere

Tuesday August 29, 2006

• Brief: Google CEO Joins Apple Board

• TippingPoint Warns Of Upcoming Bugs In Microsoft, CA, Symantec

• Top 11: Happy Birthday You Bucket of Bolts!

• Analysis: Processes, Composite Apps Put Portals in the Spotlight

• In Focus: Chrysler Scorecard Gets Auto Dealers Firing on All Cylinders

• Intel's New Tulsa Chip Bolsters Fight With AMD

Monday August 28, 2006

• IBM To Acquire FileNet

• Sarbanes-Oxley Starts a Foreign Affair

• Performance Notification Is Not Performance Management

• ONStor Offers Entry-Level NAS For $40,000

• Genome Institute Turns To Sun's Opteron Servers To Get Gene-Sequencing Done

• In Depth: Google Discloses Plans For Long-Awaited Office Suite, First Components Due This Week

• Google Revealed: The IT Strategy That Makes It Work

• IBM Adds Security To Its IT Services Menu With ISS Buy

• IBM Expands Storage Offerings, Adds Quad-Core Servers

• SOA Management Rivals Snap Up Data Repository Software

Friday August 25, 2006

• Secret Service: Inside Attacks Generally Launched By Problem Employees

• Study Highlights Insider Threats

• New Open-Source Database Touts Oracle Compatibility

• Oracle Expands Predictive Analysis Toolkit

• CIO 2006: First Horizon’s Patrick Ruckh Creates a Unified Front for Success

• Gene Database Gives Researchers Access To Bird Flu, Other Virus Info

• IBM, HP Bulking Up EMS

• Altiris Tries Free-to-Own Software Virtualization

• Buzz Briefs: Now You See Me...; Jet Engines Cool Servers

• Strategic Security: Identity Theft Protection

Thursday August 24, 2006

• EnterpriseDB Surprise: We Like Oracle Users

• Unified Communications Hype Rings Loud At VoiceCon Conference

• Google Wrestles With Brazil's Requests For User Data On American Servers

• UPDATE: Education Department Glitch Exposes Data On As Many As 21,000 Borrowers

• BITS Releases Insider Fraud Database

• Banks Scramble to Meet FFIEC Online Banking Authentication Guidelines by Yearend

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• BS&T Blogosphere

• CIO 2006: JPMorgan’s Michael Ashworth Proves There’s No ’I’ In Team

• CIO 2006: Mellon’s Kevin Shearan Takes People Power Seriously

Wednesday August 23, 2006

• Tracking Down 'Infectious Agents'

• Sun Throws A Tupperware Party For Java, And 34,000 Consumers Show Up

• Baby, You Can Drive My Car

• Fool Me Once, Destroy Your Brand

• Beyond Viral: Using The Web To Nurture 'Contagious Behavior' Among Customers

• Small, Cheap Boosters Beef Up Cell Phone Coverage

• The Sacred And Profane Sides Of Firefox

• To Get That Job, Bring On The Charm: Survey

• IBM Brings Quad-Core Servers To The Entry-Level Market

• Sun Overtakes Dell In Worldwide Server Revenue

Tuesday August 22, 2006

• SOA: At Your Service

• Web Explosion

• Bush Executive Order Unlikely To Pump Much Life Into Health IT

• Customer Data + Carelessness = Pink Slips At AOL And Elsewhere

• Banks Get New Guidance on Online Authentication

• Treasury Automation Solutions to Be Key for Banks’ Clients: Celent

• IBM Launches Major Expansion Of Its Storage Product Line

• Switching a Back-Office Relationship Is Very Hard

• Mark Tolani to Head Development at Cohen Bros.

• Keeping Tabs

Monday August 21, 2006

• CRM Has Passed Its Sell-By Date

• Sales Compensation Management Market Grows

• Review: Oracle Steps Up the Competition in Enterprise Search

• In Focus: Embracing SOA Without the SOA Initiative

• Customer- and Process-Focused Performance Management

• A New Force in Sales Process and Performance Improvement

• Microsoft Selects Initiate Systems for Customer Data Integration

• Affirmative Action

• CIO Challenge: Energy Efficiency

• Delta Air Lines Outsources Technology Operations To IBM

Sunday August 20, 2006

• A Blueprint For Enterprise Architecture