Technology Press Release – Newsletter for March 16, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
How to get 50,000 First Time Internet Users Online in One Day
BRUSSELS, March 15, 2010 – Telecentre-Europe organized Get Online Day in 4 March 2010, a
pan-European event that was part of the eSkills Week 2010, (
eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/web/guest;jsessionid=FDB46E1DD6A82AAA87CF5FF
ABCFAE7C2) coordinated by Digital Europe (www.digitaleurope.org/) and
European SchoolNet, (
www.eun.org/web/guest;jsessionid=DE0C2AA9D4BC14F8C5CD570644DFE4AA) and
funded by the European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry.
(ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm) Get Online Day was supported by
national partners, (www.ebaltics.com/onlineday2010/) NGOs,
telecentres, libraries, schools, information [...]
European Banks Lack Document Security
LONDON, March 15, 2010 – New research from Ricoh (www.ricoh-europe.com/) reveals
that financial services companies across Europe are unintentionally putting
their confidential information at risk. At the heart of the issue is the lack
of a centralised document governance strategy.
The research (research.ricoh-europe.com/) also includes
business leaders from the professional services, public services,
telecommunications, utilities and [...]
HTC Legend and HTC Desire Coming Soon to Vodafone UK
Android Options Grow for Customers on the UK's Best Network
NEWBURY, England, March 15, 2010 – Vodafone UK customers can now register for the HTC Desire (
shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/htc-desire) and HTC Legend, (
shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/htc-legend) two of the most
eagerly anticipated smartphones of the year. The new handsets, both powered
by the Android operating system, are set to launch in April [...]
Coverity Calls a Halt to Unsafe Software
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2010 – — Provides Coverity Software Integrity Audits to Qualified Global 2000
Companies
— Extends Offer to Select Suppliers of Global 2000 Companies to Audit
Software Integrity Supply Chain
Coverity, Inc., the software integrity market leader, today announced
that it will provide software integrity audits to qualified [...]
New Social Shopping Platform, ComeLetsBuy, Aims to Stand Out From eBay, Amazon, Price Comparison & Other Group Buy Business Models
LONDON, March 15, 2010 – Group buying or Mob Shopping has been forecasted as the new growth market
for 2010 and London-based www.ComeLetsBuy.com (www.comeletsbuy.com) is
already ahead of the game. With a model based around clear conscience to
strictly not have any copy cat approach of other group buy websites,
ComeLetsBuy(CLB) offers unique advantage to both shoppers and [...]
NAVTEQ Launches Intermediate Maps of Nigeria and Kenya
NAVTEQ expands African map coverage with the +200 000 kilometres and +23 000 Points of Interest
NAIROBI, Kenya, ABUJA, Nigeria, and LONDON, March 15, 2010 – NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location
data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, today
announces map coverage expansion with Intermediate Maps for Nigeria and
Kenya. Covering [...]
ACM and Infosys Foundation Honor Innovator of Scalable Web Technology That Underpins All Major Internet Services
UC Berkeley's Brewer to Receive US$150,000 Prize for Contemporary Contributions to Data-Intensive Computing and Bringing the Information Technology Revolution to the Developing World
NEW YORK and BANGALORE, India, March 15, 2010 – ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) www.acm.org
announced today that Eric Brewer, a professor at the University of California
Berkeley, has been named the recipient [...]
ClearCube Technology Delivers Unprecedented Performance, Energy Efficiency and Security With the R3040S Blade Workstation for Traders, CAD Engineers and Command and Control Centers
AUSTIN, Texas, March 15, 2010 – ClearCube Technology, the leader in centralized computing, today
announced the launch of the R3040S blade workstation. Powered by Intel's
latest Xeon processors based on the Nehalem architecture, the R3040S delivers
industry leading performance in a highly dense form factor by fitting up to
48 cores in 3U of rack space in the [...]