Wednesday, July 15, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 15/07/2009



Nortel wireless workers best served by NSN buy: Analyst
Sue Spradley, leader of Nokia Siemens Networks for North America, talked to the Economic Club of Canada about the agreement to buy Nortel’s carrier wireless business. Find out what industry analysts Ronald Gruia and Michelle Warren have to say
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IN BRIEF: More than 1.5 billion apps served
Users of Apple's iPhone downloaded half a billion apps in the last three months. Plus, a power shut-down tool for virtual environments, a cooling module for Future Facilities' data design suite, and more
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What MS Office Web means for enterprise IT shops
Many pundits are labeling the announcement of a Web-based Microsoft Office suite as a strong threat to Google and its suite of office productivity apps. But according to other industry observers, both sides have a long way to go in the battle to attract enterprise IT shops to these cloud-based tools
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Nortel ditched for Cisco as London Olympic supplier
The committee decided to replace the Toronto equipment maker with Cisco as its network equipment contractor due to uncertainty over Nortel’s future. Canadian analyst Ronald Gruia offers his take
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Juniper strengthens appliances to remote attacks
Strategy aims to connect application acceleration, VPNs, IDPs and access control to give 'global roaming policies'
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Q&A: CA CEO John Swainson
The Canadian-born head of software giant CA Inc. makes a visit home to discuss the impact of virtualization, analytics in a data centre context and the future of the IT department. WITH VIDEO
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The new soft skill: virtual competence
Researchers from the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business suggest that virtual competence is a soft skill managers should be encouraging in their staff. Why IT professionals would have higher virtual competence than those of other industries
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IBM hosts Alberta Waterportal for smart water usage
Armonk, New York-based IBM Corp. has several smart water initiatives on the go, including one with Alberta WaterSmart. It’s a portal of data and research on water management that incidentally is hosted in a hydro-powered Web hosting centre. Why bad water management will hinder business growth
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Redmond wraps ribbon 'round OneNote, Outlook
Microsoft Office 2010 will extend the Fluent graphical user interface to all products in the suite. Partners say it's a commitment that shows it isn't going away
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Microsoft reports another zero-day vulnerability
Microsoft says the flaw resides in its Open Web Components which are used for publishing spreadsheets, charts and databases to the Web
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