Friday, February 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 27/02/2009



Google, Amazon ask CRTC to stop Internet traffic shaping
In a submission Monday to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a coalition including Google, Amazon and Skype demand that carriers and ISPs be banned from traffic-shaping. But an industry observer thinks the submission needs a narrower focus
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Adventures in data recovery
Russian hackers hold a casino site hostage, a Venezuelan town mistakes disk drives for organ transfers and a Toronto hospital needs ER for RAID array. Three adventure tales from CBL Data Recovery. WITH VIDEO
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Ontario universities tap into Tools as a Service
IBM’s latest cloud computing project gives students and professors 24/7 access to IBM software development tools – with no hardware upgrades or installation required.
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Canadian IP PBX maker scores record sales
The purchase of Ericsson's enterprise communications last year helped Aastra Technologies' bottom line, but, according to the head of the company, so did Nortel's financial troubles
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25 most dangerous cities for offshoring
CIOs are putting on hold offshore projects that were routine just a year ago, according to the co-author of a report titled 2009: The Year of Outsourcing Dangerously. You might like to think twice before transferring operations to these 25 cities
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GovSym raises notion of central IT security agency
A conference for public sector technology professionals examines the efforts needed to identify risks, threats and strategies to prevent data loss. Symantec's CIO discusses the need to balance protection with openness
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Android narrowly trails iPhone in open source app race
A new report from Black Duck Software finds that while Google’s Android platform is flying under the radar for most mainstream smart phone users, developers are certainly answering the search giant’s call to arms
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VMware fleshes out cloud security strategy
The company’s Virtual Datacentre Operating System will include vShield to help define different security policies for different systems. Info-Tech’s John Sloan offers his take on the vCloud initiative
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Fresh layoffs at Nortel as restructuring continues
Another 3,200 will be let go this year, adding to the list of thousands that have been shown the door in the past seven years
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