Friday, August 6, 2010

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 06/08/2010



Salesforce patent settlement a win for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and Salesforce have ended their patent dispute and entered into a license-sharing agreement. But what’s going on in Microsoft’s head?
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Stuxnet industrial worm was written over a year ago
Stuxnet, which targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems made by Siemens AG, was created as early as June, 2009, according to Symantec Corp. researchers. Some claim the malware creators stole encryption keys made by Realtek Semiconductor Corp. and JMicron Technology Corp.
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More work, low pay for IT pros in the Philippines
Highlights of the IS Salary, Job Satisfaction and Career survey conducted by the Computerworld Philippines Research Group from March to May 2010
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Your workplace in 2020: Gartner's predictions
The market research firm forsees 10 major changes occuring in the next decade. Here are five of the most interesting, with some additional context
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A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career
Kristine Harper, 27, grew up getting inside knowledge about mainframe computers -- and their career potential. Now she's putting that knowledge to use
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Toronto firm inks deal with two major U.S. universities
Destiny Solutions will provide its administrative management software to both Penn State and UC Santa Barbara. The schools are looking to modernize the management tools that handle continuing and online education students
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Position-based quantum cryptography: A scientific breakthrough?
Three University of California researchers have published a paper showing how quantum physics can be used to do cryptographic tasks, such as key exchange protocols based solely on location. One prof says classic triangulation techniques can be spoofed
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WikiLeaks shouldn't chill info sharing, ex-CIA chief says
The recent publication of classified military documents on the whistleblower site WikLeaks should not be allowed to chill information sharing, says the former director of the CIA
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Saudi Arabia to ban BlackBerry service on Friday
The ban covers all BlackBerry applications, including e-mail and instant messaging
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Product, food recall site uses geomapping
HealthAndSafetyWatch.com seeks to do what government health and safety sites have failed to do out of lack of technology innovation, says a former Health Canada epidemiologist. His upcoming plans for making food premise inspection data available on the iPhone and BlackBerry
Read More ...

Q&A: Michael Scissons on social media in business
VIDEO: The 26-year-old CEO of burgeoning Canadian start-up Syncapse talks about the challenges businesses face, where social media could be in five years and why Toronto wasn’t really the Facebook capital of the world
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MTS to upgrade Manitoba’s data network
While Ottawa works on a digital strategy, Manitoba pays $100 million to ensure its provincial offices and participating hospital and school boards boost their broadband speed ten-fold
Read More ...

Push-to-talk coming to Android phones
Popular among public safety organizations and field workers, the capability has been limited to a small number of wireless carriers. But a U.S. company has found a way to add it to 3G/4G phones
Read More ...

New CEO for Extreme Networks
Former Nortel executive becomes the Ethernet switch maker's third chief in a year following layoffs
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Mobile e-mail replacing desktop e-mail
The new Nielsen survey report illustrates that desktop e-mail is on the decline, while mobile e-mail is rapidly growing
Read More ...

Salesforce patent settlement a win for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and Salesforce have ended their patent dispute and entered into a license-sharing agreement. But what’s going on in Microsoft’s head?
Read More ...

Stuxnet industrial worm was written over a year ago
Stuxnet, which targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems made by Siemens AG, was created as early as June, 2009, according to Symantec Corp. researchers. Some claim the malware creators stole encryption keys made by Realtek Semiconductor Corp. and JMicron Technology Corp.
Read More ...

More work, low pay for IT pros in the Philippines
Highlights of the IS Salary, Job Satisfaction and Career survey conducted by the Computerworld Philippines Research Group from March to May 2010
Read More ...

Your workplace in 2020: Gartner's predictions
The market research firm forsees 10 major changes occuring in the next decade. Here are five of the most interesting, with some additional context
Read More ...

A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career
Kristine Harper, 27, grew up getting inside knowledge about mainframe computers -- and their career potential. Now she's putting that knowledge to use
Read More ...

Toronto firm inks deal with two major U.S. universities
Destiny Solutions will provide its administrative management software to both Penn State and UC Santa Barbara. The schools are looking to modernize the management tools that handle continuing and online education students
Read More ...

Position-based quantum cryptography: A scientific breakthrough?
Three University of California researchers have published a paper showing how quantum physics can be used to do cryptographic tasks, such as key exchange protocols based solely on location. One prof says classic triangulation techniques can be spoofed
Read More ...

WikiLeaks shouldn't chill info sharing, ex-CIA chief says
The recent publication of classified military documents on the whistleblower site WikLeaks should not be allowed to chill information sharing, says the former director of the CIA
Read More ...

Saudi Arabia to ban BlackBerry service on Friday
The ban covers all BlackBerry applications, including e-mail and instant messaging
Read More ...

Product, food recall site uses geomapping
HealthAndSafetyWatch.com seeks to do what government health and safety sites have failed to do out of lack of technology innovation, says a former Health Canada epidemiologist. His upcoming plans for making food premise inspection data available on the iPhone and BlackBerry
Read More ...

Q&A: Michael Scissons on social media in business
VIDEO: The 26-year-old CEO of burgeoning Canadian start-up Syncapse talks about the challenges businesses face, where social media could be in five years and why Toronto wasn’t really the Facebook capital of the world
Read More ...

MTS to upgrade Manitoba’s data network
While Ottawa works on a digital strategy, Manitoba pays $100 million to ensure its provincial offices and participating hospital and school boards boost their broadband speed ten-fold
Read More ...

Push-to-talk coming to Android phones
Popular among public safety organizations and field workers, the capability has been limited to a small number of wireless carriers. But a U.S. company has found a way to add it to 3G/4G phones
Read More ...

New CEO for Extreme Networks
Former Nortel executive becomes the Ethernet switch maker's third chief in a year following layoffs
Read More ...

Mobile e-mail replacing desktop e-mail
The new Nielsen survey report illustrates that desktop e-mail is on the decline, while mobile e-mail is rapidly growing
Read More ...

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