TECHWEB TODAY: E-BUSINESS Thursday, September 16, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Thursday E-Business Feature: IT-Hiring Picture Remains Cloudy 2. E-Business News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Florida Hurricane No Match For VoIP 4. German Chipmaker Infineon Admits Price Fixing 5. Hackers Jump On Windows Vulnerability 6. Airbus Aims For In-Flight Cell Service In 2006 Other News This Week 7. Shooting Blanks 8. Florida Theme Park Uses RFID To Help Parents Find Lost Kids 9. Firefox Nears Final With Feature-Complete Preview 10. Electronic Seals May Aid Port Security ------- Advertisement ------------------- This issue sponsored by ... CDW The Microsoft Mid-Market Windows Server Promotion. With a $600 subsidy toward partner services and one online training voucher for a Windows Server 2003 training course from IMG University (up to a $595 value), you can put the latest Microsoft Windows Server Systemto work for your organization. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwm0Ay ----------------------------------------- 1. THURSDAY E-BUSINESS FEATURE: IT-Hiring Picture Remains Cloudy Despite a strengthening overall economy, the tech sector continues to slowly bleed jobs. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwd0Ap 2. E-BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK JPMorgan Cancels $5-Billion Outsourcing Deal With IBM JPMorgan Chase bank canceled its $5-billion outsourcing deal with IBM and said it would take back the 4,000 employees working at IBM on the bank's IT programs. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmhU0AL Oracle Vs. Microsoft, Anyone? Oracle wins in U.S. antitrust court in PeopleSoft takeover attempt, but its bigger battle is with the likes of Microsoft, which is eating away at the SMB market. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmTs0AV Amazon's A9 Takes On Google, Yahoo Amazon.com officially unveiled its search site, A9.com, now live in final form. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwe0Aq HP Unveils Technology Roadmap Vowing that its missteps will be short-lived, HP pulled out all its guns to tell partners it's in the storage business for the long haul. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwf0Ar Initiative Started To Push NFC Payments Using Phones Royal Philips Electronics and ViVOtech want retail customers to pay for items using phones equipped with near-field communications (NFC) capabilities. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwg0As Albertsons Sued Over Customer-Data Privacy A privacy group accuses the grocery-store chain of misusing customers' pharmacy data. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmhR0AI Disaster Recovery Planning Grows, Slowly Only 38 percent have any kind of plan in place to keep them operating in the event of disaster or disruption, according to a Veritas survey. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmT50AT Cisco, Linksys To Launch Trade-Up Rebates Cisco Systems and its Linksys division is launching a program that lets customers trade their Linksys products in for Cisco gear. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmhW0AN New RFID Services Based On IBM's Own Tagging Projects RFID work done at an IBM chip factory has become the basis for a new line of consulting services. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmT20AQ ------- Advertisement ------------------- This issue sponsored by ... CDW The Microsoft Mid-Market Windows Server Promotion. With a $600 subsidy toward partner services and one online training voucher for a Windows Server 2003 training course from IMG University (up to a $595 value), you can put the latest Microsoft Windows Server Systemto work for your organization. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwm0Ay ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Florida Hurricane No Match For VoIP As hurricanes roar across Florida this fall, IT managers have had to rely on disaster recovery systems to keep their telecommunications equipment up and running. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwh0At 4. German Chipmaker Infineon Admits Price Fixing German computer chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwi0Au 5. Hackers Jump On Windows Vulnerability Hackers are actively discussing the new JPEG vulnerability and how to exploit it, security analysts say. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwj0Av 6. Airbus Aims For In-Flight Cell Service In 2006 The aircraft vendor says successful in-flight tests mean that in-flight cell service is on schedule for 2006. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0Cmwk0Aw OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. Shooting Blanks The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government agencies lack a clear vision of how to leverage IT to fight cybercrime and enhance security. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmhQ0AH 8. Florida Theme Park Uses RFID To Help Parents Find Lost Kids Visitors to a Florida theme park keep track of each other with RFID chips embedded in wristbands. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejVm0GpvDH0G4T0CmhV0AM 9. 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