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Fidelity Investments calls upon hundreds of staffers to populate task forces and emergency operations teams. "When a crisis hits, these people swing into action, joining forces with our security, risk, human resources, employee communications and other support groups to ensure the security of Fidelity people and assets, as well as that of our customers' accounts and their continuing ability to do business with us," says Vin Loporchio, a spokesperson for the firm...

JBoss Monday released Hibernate 3.2, the latest update to the company's Java object/relational mapping software. Hibernate packages now support the most popular development frameworks, and can be used with JDK 5.0 (Java Developer Kit) annotations, the Java Persistence API, or full Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB 3.0) ...

Baynote, a maker of content guidance software for Web-based businesses, on Monday unveiled Baynote.org, a community-based Web site designed to encourage the adoption of business-ready open source search ...

Petty pointed out that procurement law typically applies to public funding, meaning if there is no cost to the software, there is no issue. However, there was some consensus that staff time spent downloading, running and, most importantly, supporting open source software must be considered...

Samsung Electronics announced Tuesday that it has developed a mobile phone equipped with a camera featuring the world's highest resolution for any camera phone. The South Korean electronics firm said the camera will initially be sold in its home market ...

Issues with captive facilities often include staffing questions to an extent that is usually not experienced in an offshore outsourcing arrangement. Both captive and outsourcing arrangements carry risks of fraud and issues regarding overall cost. These will be examined here from the perspective of a captive operation. We begin by looking at economies of scale that may be achieved with a captive approach...

In a third, the general manager and his staff at the Cancer Treatment Center of Southern Illinois are using the platform to improve the quality of care and cost efficiency by identifying physician best practices, Cogswell notes Products like Advizor unlock potential, he says, ...

The application also includes upgrades to several of its processes -- as well as new functionality in arange of areas, including grant management, travel expenditures and staffing. New features also support asset maintenance, IT asset management and real estate lease administration. New analytics help users assess their positions in IT asset, real property and technician utilization...

Under Joshi's leadership, HP has increased its domination of the printer space and shrugged off attacks by a variety of vendors, including Dell, which was thought to be unstoppable when it first moved into the printer arena. Dell moved into Kodak's turf, for example, and Kodak had to give way; Lexmark (IBM's old printer division) and Epson simply do not appear to be competitive. In addition, HP now has one of Lexmark's top employees on its staff -- who left Lexmark because he wanted to go someplace that had passion for the product. This left Lexmark to come up with a very lame legal attempt to make sure that this executive can't be fully functional for a time at HP...

The first step the company took was to implement SAP's opportunity management module with mobile access to the application so as to accommodate the company's on-the-road sales and engineering staff. "The problem was when we rolled it out -- in 2001 and 2002 -- a lot of the infrastructure was not there," Blankley said. Molex redeployed this particular app a few years later, after SAP upgraded it and broadband was a more common fixture...

SiCortex, which bills itself as the first company to engineer a cluster computer from the silicon up, announced that it has closed a US$21 million round of funding, led by Chevron Technology Ventures through its venture capital arm, CTTV Investments ...

Agilysys and Red Hat announced Thursday that they have signed an enterprise reseller agreement to deliver Red Hat open source solutions to Agilysys customers ...

The Lindon, Utah-based company said HipCheck's features lend themselves to situations where IT staff are limited or distributed, and where round-the-clock coverage is required "By allowing highly mobile system administrators to take the offensive, HipCheck customers will see h...

Witness Systems cited studies by the Bank Administration Institute that show that 70 percent ofbank customers view their bank as a commodity service provider, and 30 percent desire a hands-onrelationship. One result is that banks are seeking to improve staff skills, such as consultative selling,and to broaden branch technology infrastructure...

As for disaster varieties, if your basement is flooded, you'll need to throw all your resources into a speedy recovery effort. If your city is flooded, paralyzing you as well as your supply chain and customers, any emphasis on immediate recovery is pointless, especially as your staff may have better things to do than come to work...

SMBs are an opportunity for SpikeSource, as well as other players in the space including OpenLogic and SourceLabs, because new companies are looking aggressively to open source solutions, but they may lack the in-house IT staff or expertise to go without third-party configuration and support, he noted...

Business integration and process management companyTibco Software has released a beta version of Tibco General Interface 3.2, an Ajax Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit ...

Mandriva has launched a new distribution of its operating system, Mandriva Linux 2007 ...

"In fact, the legacy system does not understand the concept of 'around the corner' or 'nearby.' Now that the data is presented on a map, staff can easily browse the area to check for conflicts that the legacy system is not built to detect. As a result," Griffin noted, "[a] permit might be postponed for another date if it's found, for example, that a film shoot is occurring around the corner on the same day as the requested permit."

According to company officials, Web Defense follows a trend towards security outsourcing in the small business workplace. It also targets overworked or understaffed IT departments by managing the protective services off-site "We found that over time, SMBs rely on outsourcing t...