IT Services News | August, 2008

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  1. Skeptics Arise as Windows TV Ads Close InDoubts are hurled on Microsoft’s decision to feature comedian Jerry Seinfield on its $300-million "Windows, not Walls" campaign airing on Sept 4.  Experts say Seinfield’s presence won’t lure college-age and younger crowd  and convince them not to switch to a Mac or to switch back.  However, he may have greater influence on the thirty- and fortysomething business community.
    Some think Seinfield’s lack of recent hits won’t grab any more Microsoft ...

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  2. Supermarkets Go High-Tech to Catch ShopliftersSupermarkets have developed a new electronic tag on items most often targeted by shoplifters. The Source Tagging Alliance is urging suppliers to use radio frequency identification (RFID) and source tagging on grocery items at the point of manufacture.

    Radio-frequency identification is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. It is used in enterprise supply chain management to improve the efficiency of inventory...

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  3. TelstraClear Enters Telecommunication MarketA new name in the telecommunication industry has emerged hoping to crumble the monopoly of Telecom and Vodafone. TelstraClear will be introducing its own mobile network which assures cheap charges to cellphone users. The company’s emergence is anticipated to urge Telecom and Vodafone to cut down their mobile call charges.  Both companies are known to demand expensive mobile costs to consumers.
    TelstraClear is a voice and data company with around 400,000 customers in New...

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  4. Microsoft Says Windows Live Mail works in IE8 Beta 2Microsoft admitted it made a mistake in identifying Windows Live Mail as incompatible with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. The company said there was an inaccuracy on their part and claimed that the email client works just fine with IE 8 Beta 2.
    Windows Live Mail, formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy, is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows...

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  5. Cellular Networks Prepare for GustavMajor cellular companies are preparing for Tropical Storm Gustav as it is expected to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast. They all have learned their lessons wth Katrina which cost them millions of dollars in damages. Now, cellular networks are also shelling out  several millions on expanding emergency response team and building new digital cell sites to battle possible destruction brought by the tropical storm.
    All the cellular providers offered tips to users when...

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  6. Internet Leak Caused US Author to Stop WritingStephenie Meyer, an American author famous for Twilight and The Host, has decided to cease writing a book series following the leak of its final installment. An unfinished version of her book, Midnight Sun appeared online, including typos and incomplete passages. Meyer was quite enraged with the leak that she dumped the entire project even at its final stages.

    She was also almost done writing a possible sequel to The Host,...

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  7. FAA Breakdown Calls for ModernizationThe chaos caused by the Federal Aviation Administration outage uncovered the agency’s need for high-tech equipment. Several travelers were left disappointed as they had to experience flight delays due to the outage.

    The FAA suffered a software glitch which struck at a Hampton, Ga., facility that operates the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, a system that receives flight plans from airports across much of the nation and then electronically distributes those plans to air...

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  8. Hyundai Raided by German PoliceGerman customs police raided  Hyundai IT Corp.s booth at IFA and took away some flat-screen TVs. Norbert Scheithauer, a spokesman for Berlin-area customs investigators, said the electrical devices included 170 television sets, 140 MP3 players and 43 car radios that were being exhibited by manufacturers as well as large quantities of brochures.
    The raids took place at the opening day of IFA, Europe’s biggest expo for new electrical products. A German court had...

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  9. Malaysia Blocks Access to Anti-Government WebsiteMalaysia has blocked access to a popular news website that often criticizes the government, inciting protests against cyberspace black out.
    The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, the government’s industry regulator, ordered local Internet Service Providers to block access to Malaysia Today on Wednesday for posting comments that could arouse the country’s multi-racial society.  Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the Malaysia Today’s editor, is reported to have snubbed previous warnings resulting to the site’s interdiction.

    Home (Interior) Minister...

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  10. UK Taxpayer Data Compromised on eBay AuctionThe Leicestershire police in the U.K made an arrest over a sale on eBay that featured a computer full of personal information of thousands of council taxpayers. There is an ongoing investigation following the appearance of names and addresses, bank account numbers and sort codes of people in the Charnwood Borough Council region of Leicestershire on a computer hard drive which was sold on eBay.  A Scottish computer expert bought the...

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