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Urgent need for IT specialist on Wall Street!

August 6, 2010 - 2:56am | News | Other themes

More IT professionals are today needed by financial services companies on Wall Street. The firms are looking for strong programming, database and operating system skills to keep their real-time banking and trading systems up and running.

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Microsoft and Salesforce no longer sue each other

August 5, 2010 - 5:20am | Law aspects | News

Microsoft has achieved an agreement with rival Salesforce.com over patent infringement lawsuits between the two companies.

In May, Microsoft sued Salesforce -- which specializes in sales software sold and used online -- charging it with stealing its intellectual property. Salesforce countersued in June, accusing Microsoft of infringing its patents.

The details of the agreement were not disclosed, but the companies will be able to use technology protected by the other's patents. Microsoft said Salesforce is compensating it.

lawsuit | Microsoft | patent infringement | Salesforce | technology

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RBS intends to reinvigorate its strength and spend on technologies

October 2, 2009 - 11:57am | Banks and internet banks | News

Speaking at a Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference in London, Royal Bank of Scotland CEO Stephen Hester made a statement saying that the bank is determined to revive its strength and spend some £6 billion on technology and marketing over the next five years. Hester stated that his aim is to reverse the failed past policy of expansion by acquisition in order to re-invest in the business and focus on organic growth opportunities.

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Hitachi reveals new technology allowing to pay with fingerprint

July 31, 2009 - 3:39am | News | Payment systems

Hitachi is set to introduce a new biometric authentication technology that allows customers to purchase a soft drink from a vending machine with just their finger print. The new technology can read the finger veins and then match the customer with the credit card they have pre-registered, so that exact change is no longer needed at the vending machines.

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Microsoft optimistic about the future, saying technology will save the world

May 22, 2009 - 3:22am | Analytics | News

Addressing the participants of the annual CEO Summit at the company's campus near Seattle Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said that technology can pull the US out of crisis and help the world's ailing financial markets work better.

"The drug companies will get back in high productivity mode. The software, IT revolution -- we're just at the start of that," said Gates.

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How email and instant messaging erodes America

April 24, 2009 - 7:14am | Analytics | News

Soren Gordhamer, stress-reduction expert writes in his book "Wisdom 2.0 - Ancient Secrets for the Creative & Constantly Connected" that people using their cellphones, Internet, etc. to communicate with each other are missing “the state of [their] consciousness.” “It is the lack of connection to the place inside us of ease and focus -- the creative mind,” states the author.

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Sexual intercourse at a distance?

April 22, 2009 - 9:09am | Articles | Other themes

A Scottish company Distance Labs has announced the "intimate communication over a distance," the technology, which draws lines of light on a body of a person who is more than 250 km away.

The company is looking for three couples in which one partner is based near Edinburgh, and the other more than 250 km away, with the aim of testing if drawing lines of light on each other's bodies can replicate the ambiance involved in relationships.

distance relationship | Intimate communication | Scotland | sex | technology

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U.S. hi tech giants like Google and AT&T to help boosting Iraqi progress

April 21, 2009 - 8:56am | News | Other themes

As the U.S. State Department reported on Monday, this week, April 19-23, Google’s, AT&T’s, Twitter’s and other high tech companies’ executives are coming to Iraq to find out whether technology could help fight corruption and build a more accountable society.

That the high-tech executives agreed to participate in such an action in part reflects the improvement in the Iraqi security situation since George W.

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A smartphone from Cisco? When?

April 20, 2009 - 8:40am | News | Other themes

Cisco has recently added Pure Digital, maker of the Flip budget camcorder, to its portfolio. Now it only seems to be a matter of time before it brings out a smartphone.

It is expected that as more consumers upload video content to the web, the demand for Cisco's traditional products - switches and routers will also be going up.

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Staff rearrangement at online investment firm Scottrade

April 16, 2009 - 5:54am | Investment industry | News

A branch-supported online investment firm Scottrade announced the appointment of Grant Bourzikas as a Director of Operations Technology and Enterprise Information Security. The firm also promoted Chris Meitz to Director of Operational Controls. They will both lead teams under the direction of Executive Director of Operations Catherine Maher.

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IBM and other tech giants looking to enter payment processing industry

April 14, 2009 - 1:47am | News | Payment systems

A recent announcement of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. to acquire Metavante Technologies Inc. is expected to spur even more consolidations within the industry, says Reuters. Some observers believe that this trend could be joined by technology players like IBM, Oracles, HP, Intuit Inc. and others.

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Government cannot deal with Web 2.0

April 6, 2009 - 8:21am | News | Other themes

When uber-Googler Andrew McLaughlin first joined the Barack Obama Transition Team into its Technology Innovation and Government Reform (TIGR) group, he wanted to "bring Web 2.0 to Washington." However, it turns out the situation is much harder than he had expected.

Web 2.0 was supposed to grant technological power to the government. Moreover, the change would be defined as eliminating complicated and expensive tasks and simplifying them.

advertisement | online services | software | technology | web 2.0

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AOL Latino Launches TecnoPadres.com

March 10, 2009 - 8:22am | News | Other themes

AOL Latino has announced the launch of TecnoPadres.com, http://www.tecnopadres.com. The site, which is a part of AOL Latino’s women's lifestyle network Tu Vida y Más, is aimed at helping parents learn, understand and discuss technology.

Miguel Ferrer, Director of AOL Latino, highlighted that the site was valuable “not only because the Latino parent market is largely untapped but also because it shows we continue to be forward thinking when it comes to showing leadership within the Latino category.”

AOL | children safety | Latino community | technology

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