Tuesday, July 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 21/07/2009



Five best app test tools, according to Info-Tech
The IT consultancy has revealed its picks for the top five vendors in the quality management market. Find out who leads the pack
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HP to buy Ibrix for scale-out storage
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s planned acquisition of Ibrix Inc. will add storage clustering capabilities to the StorageWorks portfolio, said one analyst. But what of PolyServe, the company in the same space that HP bought in 2007?
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IN BRIEF: HP doubles SAS bandwidth
New 6Gbps drives for ProLiant servers target storage-heavy, high I/O applications. Plus, NRC funds e-learning for nurses; Nova Scoatia Power gets kudos for BlackBerry use
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The botnet world is a booming world
The number of identified botnets has more than doubled in a year to 3,500, the ShadowServer Foundation says. Conficker isn’t doing much right now but Torpig has obtained sensitive banking information for more than 8,000 accounts.
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Is browser vs. mobile app brawl brewing?
Ilja Laurs, head of mobile app store GetJar, says mobile phone app will be bigger than the Internet. Not so, says Vic Gundotra, vice-president of engineering for Google who believes the browser is the future application platform for mobile devices
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RIM demands review of Nortel assets sale
Research in Motion alleges it was unfairly blocked from making a bid for Nortel Networks CDMA and Long Term Evolution Access businesses
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UPDATE: Avaya to buy Nortel enterprise unit
The Toronto firm is operating under bankruptcy protection and has now received bids for both its carrier wireless and corporate networking products. Analyst from Forrester and Yankee Group praise the move
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