Nine BI Megatrends for 2009 Open source software, rich, dynamic interfaces and column-store databases: these are just a few of the trends that will reshape business intelligence and information management in the year ahead. Get ready for the next waves that will help you ride out a tough economy.
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Alaska Air Taps Oracle To Build Customer Loyalty The airline implements Siebel loyalty-program software designed to shift the focus away from revenue-draining free miles and more toward personalized service.
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HTC Brings S740 Smartphone To U.S. With a svelte size and slide-out keyboard, this Windows Mobile smartphone is aimed at the message-heavy user.
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Apple Refreshes 17-Inch MacBook Pro The company's largest laptop is gaining an eight-hour battery, a faster Intel processor, and better graphics capabilities.
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Data Breaches Booming The Identity Theft Resource Center says reported data breaches increased by 47% from 2007 to 2008.
Apple iTunes Music Store Going DRM-Free The company will also offer new price points to offset competition from Amazon.com and will let iPhone users buy songs over 3G networks.
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Comcast confirms new network management practices Comcast, the second largest broadband provider in the U.S., has stopped network-management practices that focus on slowing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer application, the company said.
Digital TV converter program out of money A federal program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money.
Microsoft touts Mac-Windows collaboration at Macworld Microsoft plans to launch new Mac software later this year that will let Office 2008 for Mac users collaborate with people running the Windows version of the application suite.
'Leap second' snafu affects Oracle clustering tool The second that was added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's Cluster Ready Services software, according to a support document issued by the vendor.
Vista's flaws surface again on eve of Windows 7 beta Attendees of the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York were reminded of the Vista operating system's failings a day before the Windows 7 beta is expected to be publicly announced at the CES trade show.
Backup Resolutions: 5 Strategies to Back Up Your Data, Now Every year you say you'll be better at keeping your data backed up, but then life happens. You get busy. You get distracted. And the number of files in your digital life grows exponentially--all while you continue to relegate this critical task to the "I'll get to it" pile.
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Samsung packs camcorder with SSD for fast start Solid-state disks, hard-disk drive replacements filled with flash memory chips, have become popular in the laptop computing space and now they're expanding to other markets. At this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics will unveil an SSD-based camcorder, it said Tuesday.