Thursday, January 8, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 08/01/2009


Chair of Indian outsourcer admits faking financial results
IBM and HP may take control of the company, which has inflated profits for several years
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Norway pulls downloadable Beatles podcasts
Misunderstanding of licencing deal, which allows only music played within the previous four weeks to be rebroadcast, forces broadcaster to stop putting tunes by the Fab Four online
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Get them while they’re young: tomorrow’s IT pros
Declining enrolment in technology programs continues to be a problem, but the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills is gearing up for a national event this fall aimed at getting students interested in IT
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Ballmer sets loose Windows 7 public beta
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the beta during his speech at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, along with several partnerships with Dell and others
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Ontario health-care provider takes a central computing tack
Closing the Gap Healthcare Group Inc. chooses ThinDesk Thin Computing, which entails thin clients on the desktop and HP virtualized VMware servers that are housed in Telus' SAS 70 data centre for security and real-time collaboration of data
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Will Sun's Q-Layer deal end its cloudy days?
Sun continued to bolster its newly created cloud computing business unit with its acquisition of Belgium-based Q-Layer. Find out if the cloud computing management and orchestration technology start-up will fit into the company’s plans
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DECT cordless phones no longer secure
European researchers demonstrated they can listen in to conversations on supposedly secure cordless phones based on a standard also used for wireless point of sale terminals. Info-Tech’s Mark Tauschek gives some advice to business users
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Transferable skills for IT pros: How to change jobs
The author of a career management book for technology workers says the recession could see IT managers and CIOs looking at alternatives that have little to do with data centres or ERP systems. Consider these options
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