Wednesday, April 29, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 29/04/2009



Flash in Web sites can be hindered by culture, budget
At FITC 2009 in Toronto, a panel of Web designers noted that while Flash has gained great notoriety as an enabler of immersive user experience, some companies have not been so quick to adopt it
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CoolIT buys bankrupt Delphi’s liquid cooling assets
The Calgary-based company has bought Delphi’s liquid cooling division with big plans to eventually expand into the workstation and server cooling markets. But while the technology is a mainstay in high-end PC gaming hardware, will the technology cross over to businesses?
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Nortel gets extension of bankruptcy protection
The Canadian telecom equipment maker now has until at least June to refine its restructuring plan. Find out what the creditors told an Ontario commercial court judge
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HP adds security module to core switch
Addition is "potentially game-changing" for the ProCurve switches because it expands their usefulness in the data centre, says an industry analyst
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Why enterprises aren’t paperless -- yet
Despite advances in document management and storage, the piles of paper aren’t going away. Why the paperless office is still a myth
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SaaS Web security a cheaper option, McAfee says
The security vendor has released a Web security tool as a software-as-a-service option, designed to bypass the need to deploy and maintain on-premise software. One analyst said the SaaS option was a way for McAfee to differentiate itself in a crowded market
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Waterloo takes bronze at programming challenge
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest drew the 100 best programming teams from universities around the world. Which one is the world champion? WITH LOCATION VIDEO FROM STOCKHOLM
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Canadian CIO group teams up with European peers
The CIO Association of Canada and EuroCIO conduct a joint survey which looks at attitudes around IT spending, outsourcing and the importance of governance. Plus: How York U's CIO is dealing with tough times
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Android-ARM netbook threatens Atom's supremacy
A 1.5 pound Chinese netbook using Google's Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip pose a serious threat to Intel Corp.'s power sipping Atom CPU and might open a market for $200-notebooks
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