Information Technology Newsweekly back issues from October 2008:
Reports summarize quantum research study results from Y. Takahashi and co-researchers.
Oct 07, 2008 ... "We show how to construct a fast quantum circuit for computing the sum of two n-bit binary numbers with few qubits," investigators in Kanagawa, Japan report. "The constructed circuit uses O(n/log n) ancillary qubits and its depth and size are O(log n) and O(n), respectively. The ...
AccessData and ManTech International Corporation Collaborate to Deliver State-of-the-Art Incident Response Training.
Oct 07, 2008 ... AccessData Corporation and ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT) announced a joint collaboration to launch two new training courses--Incident Response and Enterprise Response. These three-day courses are intended for government employees and corporate officers responsible for ...
Homestead Records Become Available on the Internet for the First Time on Footnote.com.
Oct 07, 2008 ... In an event held today at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Footnote.com along with several partners announced a project to make available hundreds of thousands of original Homestead Records on the Internet for the first time. This project involved the efforts of organizations including ...
Volt Selects Pilgrim Software's SmartSolve Suite to Meet and Manage Quality Management Requirements.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Quality and Compliance Management Solutions, announced that VMC, a division of Volt Information Sciences, Inc., has selected Pilgrim's SmartSolve(R) Solution to meet and manage quality management requirements more ...
Avnet Technology Solutions Offers Data Warehousing Solutions Built on Sun and Oracle Technology.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Building on its relationships as a value-added distributor for Sun Microsystems and Oracle, Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced that it now offers solutions for value-added resellers (VARs) in the U.S. and Canada that incorporate Oracle(R) ...
iWebTrack Introduces Enhanced Navigation Path Analysis Beta.
Oct 07, 2008 ... iWebTrack(TM) Holdings Inc. is proud to announce their hosted web analytics tool iWebTrack(TM), located at www.iwebtrack.com, has developed an Enhanced Visitor Navigation Path Analysis Beta tool. iWebTrack(TM)'s newest feature enables users to examine in-depth visitor navigation path ...
Travelocity Powers Booking Engine for the Jamaica Tourist Board's Revamped Website VisitJamaica.com.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Travelocity(R) announced that it is providing the shopping and booking engine for the Jamaica Tourist Board's new VisitJamaica.com. Under the terms of the agreement, the Travelocity Partner Network(R), which currently powers the shopping engines for more than 100 destination ...
F5 Networks To Hold Analyst/Investor Meeting November 4th at Company Headquarters in Seattle.
Oct 07, 2008 ... F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) will hold a meeting for analysts and investors at F5's corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington, from 8:00 a.m. to noon PT on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Presentations by senior executives will focus on F5's recent and planned product introductions, its ...
SGI and Oracle Expand Reach of Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative to More Enterprises.
Oct 07, 2008 ... SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC) and Oracle announced a new Oracle Optimized Warehouse based on SGI(R) servers, supercomputers and storage solutions optimized for the world's most popular database. SGI and Oracle are broadening the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative by introducing a ...
ISA Consulting Contributes to IBM Cognos Performance 2008.
Oct 07, 2008 ... ISA Consulting will proudly participate in the annual Performance 2008 events beginning with a Business Intelligence presentation on October 7th in Boston, MA. Focused upon highlighting the practical expertise developed through real-world business challenges and successes, Performance ...
Travel 2.0 US Report Describes an Emerging Generation of Travel Oriented Sites.(Report)
Oct 07, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ac4b0e/travel_2_0_us_repo) has announced the addition of the "Travel 2.0 US Report" report to their offering. Travel 2.0 has become firmly entrenched in the travel industry lexicon as a consequence of the broader ...
Extended Warranty Group Launches AllSixWarranty.com.
Oct 07, 2008 ... What can about $.66 a day buy you in a down economy? Peace of mind and savings for your six largest appliances according to Chicago-based Extended Warranty Group (EWG). The company announced that it has launched an online, all-in-one service plan solution for consumers looking for a ...
Doostang Appoints Drew Carpenter as CEO.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Doostang, the exclusive online career community for top young professionals, announces the appointment of Drew Carpenter as chief executive officer. As CEO, Carpenter will oversee all aspects of the company's growth. His initial focus will be on enhancing the unique service ...
INTCOMEX Teams with Dell under Partner Direct Program.
Oct 07, 2008 ... INTCOMEX and its subsidiaries announced that it has partnered with Dell under Dell's PartnerDirect program to serve as a Certified Distribution Partner responsible for distributing Dell products and services throughout Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela. "We are ...
IQPC E&P Data and Knowledge Management Conference Proceedings London, 2006.(Conference notes)
Oct 07, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c1d9d5/iqpc_ep_data_and) has announced the addition of the "IQPC E&P Data and Knowledge Management Conference Proceedings London, 2006" report to their offering. IQPC E&P Data and Knowledge Management Conference ...
Sun Microsystems Announces Internet Availability of Annual Stockholders' Meeting Proxy Materials for Fiscal Year 2008.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) announced the Internet availability of proxy materials for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Notice and Access rule. Sun's proxy materials can now be found on the Company's investor relations ...
PHASE 2 Steps-up Global Presence in SaaS with New Sales VP.
Oct 07, 2008 ... PHASE 2 International (www.Phase2.com) announced that it is further stepping-up its global presence with the addition of a new Vice President of Sales, Mike Peterson. Peterson comes to PHASE 2 with nearly 25 years of sales executive experience in Fortune 100 companies - IBM and Cisco ...
Bus-Tech, Inc. and Compellent Deliver Industry-Leading Mainframe VTL/SAN Solution.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Bus-Tech, Inc., a leading provider of Virtual Tape solutions for mainframe environments announced the interoperability of Bus-Tech's Mainframe Data Library (MDL) with Compellent's Storage Center storage area network. Interoperability was confirmed based on testing at Bus-Tech's laboratory ...
Adobe Advances Mobile Testing in Creative Suite 4.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe(R) Device Central(R) CS4 software, the next generation testing and preview environment for mobile content. A tightly integrated component across the Adobe Creative Suite(R) 4 product line (see separate releases), Adobe Device Central ...
Authoria CEO to Provide Keynote on Succession Management at Two Conference Board Events.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Authoria, Inc., the leader in comprehensive talent management solutions, announced that Chairman and CEO Tod Loofbourrow will be a keynote speaker at The Conference Board's upcoming Succession Management Conference. Loofbourrow will provide actionable insights on how employers can use new ...
HCG Announces Sales Department Enhancements.(Financial report)
Oct 07, 2008 ... HCG announced strategic changes to its BI sales department to enhance service and further support its diverse customer base. The changes include an expanded focus on Oracle technology that will augment existing roles and create new positions within the client relations and staff ...
Mission Possible for EDF.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Launched in April 2006 as part of a project to optimize EDF's purchasing organization, the portal reflects the group's mission to create a tailored purchasing tool for buyers. The portal was designed to cover the entire purchasing process, from publishing requirements through to signing ...
The Planet Executive to Present at Network World IT Roadmap Conference.(Conference news)
Oct 07, 2008 ... The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, announced that Stan O. Barber, vice president, network operations, will deliver a case study on the company's solutions at the Network World Dallas IT Roadmap Conference and Expo. Barber's session, scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 10:15 a.m ....
Alcatel-Lucent and Deutsche Telekom Launch Web User Interface for Smart Metering Trial in "T-City" Friedrichshafen.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Deutsche Telekom announced that they launch a web-based Smart Metering user interface for the E-Metering field trial, which is running in the German city of Friedrichshafen. In Friedrichshafen, local utility provider ...
Ricoh Americas Corporation Selected for InformationWeek 500.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment,announced that for the fourth consecutive year it was named to the InformationWeek 500 list. Ricoh was ranked #82 on the 2008 list, which was revealed during the InformationWeek 500 Conference gala awards ...
Signiant Wins Esteemed IBC Innovation Award for its Work with NBC Universal.(Company overview)
Oct 07, 2008 ... Signiant Inc., the leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions for the telco, media and entertainment industries, announced it has received an IBC2008 Innovation Award for the company's contribution to NBC Universal's MICAH multi-format, digital media production ...
Glimmerglass Signs Reseller Agreement with Micos for Eastern European Market.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Glimmerglass, leading provider of Intelligent Optical Switches, announced a reseller agreement with leading Eastern European distributor Micos, in which Micos will market and sell Glimmerglass switches to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and ...
AxisPointe's Board of Directors Welcomes Lloyd 'Buzz' Waterhouse as Newest Member.(Report)
Oct 07, 2008 ... AxisPointe, Inc., the leader in facility asset management software and outsourced post-construction customer service, announced the addition of Lloyd 'Buzz' Waterhouse to its board of directors. In addition to his service on the AxisPointe board, Waterhouse also serves on the boards of The ...
Endeca Accelerates Solutions, Capabilities Aimed at Media and Publishing.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search and information access software company, announced a plan to accelerate investments in the company's media and publishing business. Resulting innovations, designed specifically for media, publishing and creative agency businesses, will include ...
New findings reported from A.S.M. Hassan and co-authors describe advances in quantum research.
Oct 07, 2008 ... "We give a new separability criterion, a necessary condition for separability of N-partite quantum states. The criterion is based oil the Bloch representation of a N-partite quantum state and makes Use of multilinear algebra, in particular, the matrization of tensors," investigators in ...
Raytheon Completes Ground Segment Acceptance Testing Early for the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) achieved a significant program milestone for the National Polar- orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by successfully completing ground segment acceptance testing of the data processing segment at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility ...
TutorVista Announces the Next Generation of OnlineTutoring: Instant, On-Demand with Talk2aTutor.
Oct 07, 2008 ... TutorVista.com, the world's leading online tutoring company, announced a new generation of tutoring technology to provide the most effective and convenient one-on-one tutoring ever--TutorVista Connect Now(TM) with Talk2aTutor(TM). Now, students around the world can instantly connect to a ...
Soft Solutions Launched Its New Embedded V6 ibs ANALYTICS Forecasting Engine, Supporting the Fast Growing Retail Demands.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Soft Solutions' ibs ANALYTICS, delivered to support Soft Solutions' retail business applications (ibs PRICING, ibs PROMOTIONS, ibs ASSORTMENT, ibs STORE Replenishment), is used to generate sales forecast, assortment, replenishment, pricing and promotions optimization. ibs ...
Desires Hotels, a New Modern Boutique Collection, Launches Desireshotels.com.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Desires Hotels, a collection of independently created, modern boutique hotels, has just launched their new, comprehensive website. The brand boasts an unwavering commitment to service, unique architecture and design, and delivers unexpected amenities in the most stylish settings. Whether ...
Adobe Debuts Powerful InDesign CS4 Release.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe(R) InDesign(R) CS4 software, a major upgrade to its leading professional page layout program. InDesign CS4 delivers powerful new features and enhancements that help increase productivity and efficiency, streamline and automate long ...
eDOORWAYS Nears Launch Date.
Oct 07, 2008 ... eDOORWAYS Corporation (Pink Sheets: EDWY), creators and innovators of the nextgen online business-to-consumer marketplace eDOORWAYS.com, announced the completion of the first group of "Use Cases" that will lead to hundreds of such "cases" that users will employ to navigate the eDOORWAYS ...
American Health Information Community Recognizes Prematics CEO for Leadership in E-Health Interoperability.
Oct 07, 2008 ... American Health Information Community (AHIC) Successor, Inc. announced the appointment of Kevin Hutchinson, President and CEO of Prematics, Inc., to its Board of Directors. AHIC Successor, Inc. is an independent, sustainable private-public enterprise that brings together the ...
MacroSolve Moves Into Larger Office Space To Accommodate Growing Staff.
Oct 07, 2008 ... MacroSolve, Inc., (OTCBB:MCVE), parent company of Anyware Mobile Solutions, announced it has moved its corporate headquarters into a new 10,000-square-foot office space at the Mapco Plaza, 1717 South Boulder Avenue, Suite 700, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119. The move doubles the company's square ...
AppNexus Secures $8 Million in Series B Funding.(Company overview)
Oct 07, 2008 ... AppNexus, a leading provider of enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, announced that it has raised $8 million in Series B funding and added Mike Tyrrell, general partner at Venrock, to its board of directors. The round was led by Venrock, a premier venture capital firm founded by the ...
Etelos Announces the Launch of the Exadel Storefront on the Etelos Marketplace.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Etelos, Inc. (OTCBB:ETLO), announced that Exadel(TM) now has two applications, Exadel Fiji(TM) and Exadel dVision(TM), available through the Etelos Marketplace(TM). The seventh new partner announced in as many days, Exadel is a leading provider of Web 2.0-based enterprise solutions and ...
AppLabs' Testing Solution Enables Turquoise to Launch On Time.
Oct 07, 2008 ... AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company, announces the completion of a major Functional and Performance Testing phase for Turquoise, the multi-lateral trading facility established by nine leading European investment banks. ...
Lyzasoft Introduces Desktop Data Analysis Solution.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Lyzasoft, Inc. today introduced Lyza(TM), a powerful desktop analytics solution. Lyza enables analysts to synthesize, explore and visualize data, then to publish compelling presentations and dashboards - all without the reliance on lengthy IT development cycles. Lyza runs on Windows and ...
Oracle Names Hitachi Consulting 2008 North American Titan Award Winner for Edge Applications Solution.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Hitachi Consulting, the IT services company of Hitachi Ltd., received one of only 14 Oracle(R) Titan Awards given in 2008 for its work helping companies successfully implement projects with Oracle applications in the Supply Chain area. Valassis, one of the nation's leading media ...
Zettabyte Storage Redefines Terabyte Class Data Backup.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Zettabyte Storage (ZBS) continues to expand its integrated data management solutions with the announcement of the Zettabits Datacenter Edition(TM) (DCE). This newest member of its Zettabits family of managed storage and online backup products is packed with up to 12TB of raw storage space, ...
New Studies Show "OnShoring" Job Creation Stimulates Economic Growth in Rural Communities, Enhances U.S. Security.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Stimulating the economy, keeping jobs in the U.S. rather than abroad and managing security risks are three of the biggest issues facing America today. Two studies released by the CGI Coalition for Mission Results, a public policy initiative formed earlier this year between CGI (NYSE: GIB; ...
Internet Access in Norway Report Out Now.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0ad776/internet_access_in) has announced the addition of the "Internet Access in Norway" report to their offering. Internet Access in Norway industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and ...
New quantum research has been reported by scientists at Stockholm University.
Oct 07, 2008 ... According to recent research from Stockholm, Sweden, "We establish a relation between concurrence and entanglement witnesses." "In particular, we construct entanglement witnesses for three-qubit W and GHZ states in terms of concurrence. We also generalize our construction for ...
Mitchell Grocery Corporation Selects Edict Systems as Outsourced Electronic Data Interchange Provider.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Advant-e Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: AVEE), through its wholly owned operating subsidiary Edict Systems, Inc. announced that Mitchell Grocery Corporation has chosen Edict Systems as their outsourced Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provider. Mitchell's, located in Albertville, ...
Seagate Launches i365, a Seagate Company, Unifying Its Services Businesses Under New Operating Structure To Ensure Agility, Speed and Efficiencies In Going To Market.(Company overview)
Oct 07, 2008 ... Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) announced a comprehensive rebranding of its EVault(TM), MetaLINCS(TM), and Seagate Recovery Services companies, which were operating as a division of Seagate under the name Seagate Services. Collectively these companies will now be formally known and unified as ...
WiQuest Unveils Nationwide "Why Are You Wired?" YouTube Contest.
Oct 07, 2008 ... WiQuest Communications, Inc., the acknowledged worldwide leader in WiMedia-based ultrawideband (UWB) solutions, today unveiled its first-ever "Why are You Wired" YouTube contest - a contest to demonstrate how users are freeing themselves of cumbersome USB cables and enjoying the ...
Oce North America Introduces Desktop Color Printing Performance.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Oce, an international leader in digital document management, introduced today the Oce cx2100, a desktop color MFP with the ability to copy, print, scan and fax. This powerhouse desktop device, available from the Oce North America Document Printing Systems division, provides users with a ...
ONN.tv's Mark2Market Features Jack Broz's Thoughts on Interest Rates, Market Technicals, and Buffett.
Oct 07, 2008 ... This morning on ONN.tv, Mark2Market host Kevin Cook spoke with Jack Broz, CME/CBOT floor trader and advisor for The Marlin Letter, about Treasury interest-rate futures finding a bid as the banking crisis gets some clarity and moves closer to a resolution. Broz notes the recent ...
Panini Announces Agreement with Metavante.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Panini, a distributed capture market leader, announced they have signed a reseller agreement with Metavante Corporation, a leading provider of banking and payments technology. The agreement enables Metavante to offer Panini's market-leading Vision X(TM) check scanners to its banking ...
SNIA Announces Solid State Storage Initiative.
Oct 07, 2008 ... The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced at the SNIA 2008 Storage Developer Conference the formation of the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), which will serve to foster the growth and success of the market for solid state storage in both commercial and consumer ...
Anchorage School District Counts on Vantage Learning to Improve Writing Scores.
Oct 07, 2008 ... The Anchorage School District is kicking off the school year with a new addition to teaching and grading writing: Vantage Learning's MY Access!(R). The school district has incorporated the program in their curriculum for 6,450 of its students for the 2008-09 school year. To ensure teachers ...
WhiteHat Security Appoints OWASP Global Board Member Tom Brennan to Drive Channel Development.
Oct 07, 2008 ... WhiteHat Security, the leading provider of SaaS-based website security solutions, announced that Tom Brennan has joined the WhiteHat team as Eastern US channel relationship manager. Brennan is responsible for defining and executing the Company's channel sales strategies and evangelizing ...
Interthinx Provides FACT Act Compliance Support.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Interthinx(R) offers a loan-level identity component to assist lenders in complying with mandatory Red Flags identified in the FACT Act (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act). Interthinx is the leading provider of proven risk mitigation, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance for ...
FlightView Releases Newest Visual Displays for Airport Terminals.
Oct 07, 2008 ... The most accurate and actionable airport information displays just got easier to read. FlightView's(R) immediate release of Displays v1.1 makes terminals a little more civilized with state-of-the-art real-time flight information that passengers can view, understand and act upon as they ...
NetApp and Brocade Strengthen Data Centers with New Storage Security Solution.
Oct 07, 2008 ... NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) and Brocade(R) (NASDAQ:BRCD) announced the general availability of a joint storage security solution that will combine the NetApp(R) Lifetime Key Management(TM) solution with fabric-based encryption technology from Brocade. The joint NetApp and Brocade ...
Consonus, Goldleaf partner to launch business continuity solution.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Consonus Technologies (CTI) and Goldleaf Financial Solutions have teamed up to provide the CTI- developed Remote Backup Service (RBS) to the financial services industry. The alliance is an outgrowth of Consonus' new channel partner strategy to make its sizeable investment in ...
MicroBilt Adds VP Strategic Sales.
Oct 07, 2008 ... MicroBilt Corp., leading provider of credit and identity verification services to small to medium enterprises (SMEs), has named Jann Tilley Vice President of Strategic Sales at its Kennesaw headquarters. Jann Tilley brings 20 years experience selling consumer data and analytics to the ...
Blue Bamboo Announces TSYS Certification.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Blue Bamboo announced that it has completed and received TSYS(R) Class B certification for its Blue Bamboo Pocket POS(R) suite. Blue Bamboo is certified to process Visa, MasterCard, and Discover transactions in the ecommerce, debit, retail and various other industries with TSYS wholly ...
Adobe Delivers Creative Suite 4 Design Premium.
Oct 07, 2008 ... Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe(R) Creative Suite(R) 4 Design Premium, the latest evolution of the premier toolkit for creating and producing engaging design for print, Web, interactive and mobile media. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software combines ...
New quantum research findings from University of Bristol described.
Oct 07, 2008 ... 'We give a simple recipe for translating walks on Cayley graphs of a group G into a quantum operation on any irrep of G. Most properties of the classical walk carry over to the quantum operation: degree becomes the number of Kraus operators. the spectral gap lower-bounds the gap of the ...
StubHub Launches Innovative New Feature to Enhance Online Ticket Transactions.
Oct 07, 2008 ... StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, announced the launch of the ticketing industry's first-ever price mapping feature, setting a new precedent in making ticket transactions as efficient and cost-effective as possible for buyers and sellers alike. "PriceMapper" introduces sold ...