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05/19/2013 06:38:22 Daily, December 12IBM And AMD Unveil Breakthroughs In 45-Nanometer Chip Production
In This Issue:
1. Editor's Note: Ban The Analysts? Maybe Not
2. Today's Top Story
- IBM And AMD Unveil Breakthroughs In 45-Nanometer Chip Production
- Tokyo University, Taiwan Firms Craft 512-Core Chip
3. Breaking News
- Unix Users Prefer IBM And Sun
- HP CEO: We Have More Cutting To Do
- Oracle Loses Would-Be Customer To SAP Due To Integration Concerns
- Microsoft's Office Communications Server Targets Business VoIP Users
- Salesforce.com To Launch iTunes-Inspired AppStore
- Google Gives Its Finance Page A Facelift
- Yahoo Opens New Advertising Platform
- RIM Sues To Stop Sales Of Samsung's BlackJack Smartphone
- China To Challenge India As Top Outsourcing Destination
- Are You Suffering From Mouse Rage Syndrome?
- Microsoft's Allchin Says His 'I Would Buy A Mac' Statement Was Taken Out Of Context
4. In Depth: Security
- UCLA Admits Massive Data Hack
- Microsoft Patches Critical IE, Media Player, Visual Studio Bugs
- Ransomware Attack Targets Hotmail Accounts
- Thwarting Sex Offenders From Preying On Social Web Sites
5. Voice Of Authority
- Power To The People
6. White Papers
- Securing Data at the Endpoint
7. Get More Out Of InformationWeek
8. Manage Your Newsletter Subscription
Quote Of The Day:
"The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does." —Hugh Macleod
It looks like the sometimes-raging debate over whether journalists should quote industry analysts — be they technology or financial specialists — has flared up again, this time in an interesting story in a U.K.-based IT publication. Check it out — the story examines whether to quote the same analysts that U.S. publications talk to. The article notes the New York Times has banned quoting analysts, and then violated its own ban.
There are several schools of thought here, obviously, but there are two basic camps:
• Analysts are paid flunkeys. They are hired by vendor companies (and other corporations and organizations with axes to grind) to survey and research markets and customer references, and to write white papers, etc., that support product types or strategies. So isn't everything they say tainted?
• Good analysts are experts in their field, and they are sought out by vendor companies for the same reason user companies buy their reports and attend their conference sessions — they have expertise worth listening to. Sure, they make most of their money serving the vendor market with survey and research services, but they can't afford to discredit themselves by not being honest about the products and services they are speaking about.
There is no question who is paying the bills at most high-tech analyst firms. But it's so easy to sneer at the objectivity of the people who work there, that it's become knee-jerk. I'm really curious to know what readers think — after all, we're writing to you. Do you want to see analysts quoted, or would you rather rely on the reporter's expertise? If we don't quote analysts, that leaves the vendors (talk about self-serving!), users (if we can find any who are allowed to talk on the record), or some mix of government, legal, or other related, interested parties. But maybe you'd rather skip all that and instead have reporters rely on their own knowledge and observation? We'd really like to know. You can post your opinion, and read more about this issue, by going to the blog entry for this editor's note.
IBM And AMD Unveil Breakthroughs In 45-Nanometer Chip Production
Tokyo University, Taiwan Firms Craft 512-Core Chip
Unix Users Prefer IBM And Sun
HP CEO: We Have More Cutting To Do
Oracle Loses Would-Be Customer To SAP Due To Integration Concerns
Microsoft's Office Communications Server Targets Business VoIP Users
Salesforce.com To Launch iTunes-Inspired AppStore
Google Gives Its Finance Page A Facelift
Yahoo Opens New Advertising Platform
RIM Sues To Stop Sales Of Samsung's BlackJack Smartphone
China To Challenge India As Top Outsourcing Destination
Are You Suffering From Mouse Rage Syndrome?
Microsoft's Allchin Says His 'I Would Buy A Mac' Statement Was Taken Out Of Context
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UCLA Admits Massive Data Hack
Microsoft Patches Critical IE, Media Player, Visual Studio Bugs
Ransomware Attack Targets Hotmail Accounts
Thwarting Sex Offenders From Preying On Social Web Sites
Power To The People
Securing Data At The Endpoint: Four Steps To Protect Your Enterprise From Data Leakage
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1. Editor's Note: Ban The Analysts? Maybe Not
2. Today's Top Story
The companies say they've successfully combined cutting-edge techniques like immersion lithography and ultra-low-k interconnect dielectrics.
The University of Tokyo taps Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Alchip Technologies to make a 512-core ASIC that will help in genome sequencing or exploring the universe.
3. Breaking News
IBM retained its top spot and Sun improved its standing with Unix users, but Hewlett-Packard slipped in the latest vendor preference ratings.
Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd reinforced his reputation for fanatical attention to efficiency at his meeting Tuesday with financial analysts in New York, where he said HP still has a long way to go to strip all the unnecessary costs from its business.
One of the biggest turnoffs to Oracle, says Sport Chalet CFO Howard Kaminsky, was the lack of integration between Oracle financial applications and the retail apps of Retek, which it acquired about 18 months ago.
The software company unveiled plans to conduct an ambitious beta test centered on its Office Communications Server with links to its 2007 Microsoft Office applications.
AppExchange will offer potential buyers the ability to search and try software, and then to buy and deploy it.
Google has added better stock charts and modules that track trends in the market's top moving companies, and it now lets registered users build their own portfolios to track stocks and companies.
Since its launch in October, Yahoo's new search marketing platform had been available only to the portal's existing advertisers. Now it's available to any U.S. company willing to open a search-advertising account with Yahoo.
RIM claims Samsung infringed on its trademark by giving its smartphone — the BlackJack — a name that can be closely associated with RIM's BlackBerry devices.
China wants to convince 100 multinationals to outsource to the country and encourage the development of 1,000 large and midsize indigenous outsourcers.
Web surfers suffering from Mouse Rage Syndrome show signs of stress and anxiety, according to a new study.
Allchin says he was being dramatic in order to convince Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates that change was needed.
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4. In Depth: Security
UCLA is alerting approximately 800,000 people that a hacker broke into a university database as long ago as October 2005, but the intrusion wasn't detected until Nov. 21, 2006.
Added to the 71 updates already posted, December's group of seven raises the 2006 total to 78, six more than the previous record set in 2002.
Some Hotmail accounts have been compromised, with all mail and contacts erased. The only remaining message: a ransom note demanding payment for the return of the deleted data.
MySpace endorses Virginia plan to block sex offenders from social networking sites.
5. Voice Of Authority
It's all about what the kids want. They want YouTube, they want Skype, they want to play Halo over the Internet. And when they grow up and start working in your company, they'll want the same things — well, maybe not the Halo part. As we've written about before, end users more and more are influencing IT department decisions. They clearly want certain applications and support for certain devices, but what do they want in their networks?
6. White Papers
IT security has become one of the primary challenges facing organizations. Managers must increasingly consider data throughout its life cycle. Safeguarding an organization's most valuable assets — its data — starts at the endpoint, and enterprises must be sure to consider four steps when securing their data.
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