Friday, September 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 16/09/2010



How I got thrown out of an NSA party
Reporter finds the welcome mat for the press thrown out by the U.S. National Security Agency had a few loose threads
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Help Wanted: SAP CRM pros, QA analysts and more
A roundup of five career opportunities for Canadian IT professionals on Jobs.ITWorldCanada.com. Find out who's looking for what, where, and for how much
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Are universities at greater risk of data breaches?
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse says higher education institutions have experienced nearly 160 breaches, exposing more than 2.3 million records, since 2008
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NSA product accreditations lag security advances
NSA and military-supported certification processes are slow as molasses compared to the IT industry's lightning-fast innovations
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IT staffing firms lose H-1B lawsuit
Three small firms that rely on H-1B visa holders for most of their employees sought a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. citizenship department from enforcing it. With defeat, however, may come some clarification
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11 hot IT skills for 2011
As pressure for performance mounts, IT managers are taking the opportunity to mold their departments into profit-making business units. Computerworld's survey uncovered these 11 must-have skills
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U.S. IT employers slowly hiring back after layoffs
In the first six months of this year, tech employers added 30,200 jobs to their payrolls after shedding 143,000 jobs over the same period last year
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PwC builds new authentication system
PricewaterhouseCoopers has swaped out employees' older software-based private-key certificates for hardware-based storage of new certificates using the Trusted Platform Module
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Brocade offers 100G Ethernet at US$100K per port
Router chassis has at least twice the 100G Ethernet density of Internet core routers from Cisco and Juniper. An industry analyst says the move keeps the company up with competitors
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Enterprises still a factor in software piracy, BSA says
A new IDC report sponsored by the software industry watchdog says Canada can add thousands of jobs and inject a few billion into the economy by slowing down software piracy rates. Find out what the BSA thinks enterprises could be doing
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Ottawa group promises interoperable security
Canadian entrepreneur Terry Matthews leads association that includes six of his companies selling video surveillance, wireless and telephony solutions
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Avaya unveils video conferencing products
In addition to five video conferencing systems, Avaya Inc. is shipping user interface software designed to integrate social networking, voice and video conferencing
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IE9 ‘unboxes’ Web sites, uses power of ‘whole PC’
Microsoft unveiled its newest browser in beta Wednesday, promising a visually-compelling and faster experience that prioritizes the Web site over the browser, and takes advantage of HTML5 and other standards. New site capabilities for IE9 from eBay and Rough Guides
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SAP unveils 10 new ‘industry specific’ analytics apps
The line of BusinessObjects-based apps will work in real time and will target six major industry verticals. Plus, reaction from Levi Strauss’ CIO
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Android development extended to BlackBerry, iOS
The WorkLight Mobile Platform, originally for Android, is a set of libraries, server middleware, and native client code that lets mobile applications connect securely to back-end authentication and application servers
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How I got thrown out of an NSA party
Reporter finds the welcome mat for the press thrown out by the U.S. National Security Agency had a few loose threads
Read More ...

Help Wanted: SAP CRM pros, QA analysts and more
A roundup of five career opportunities for Canadian IT professionals on Jobs.ITWorldCanada.com. Find out who's looking for what, where, and for how much
Read More ...

Are universities at greater risk of data breaches?
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse says higher education institutions have experienced nearly 160 breaches, exposing more than 2.3 million records, since 2008
Read More ...

NSA product accreditations lag security advances
NSA and military-supported certification processes are slow as molasses compared to the IT industry's lightning-fast innovations
Read More ...

IT staffing firms lose H-1B lawsuit
Three small firms that rely on H-1B visa holders for most of their employees sought a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. citizenship department from enforcing it. With defeat, however, may come some clarification
Read More ...

11 hot IT skills for 2011
As pressure for performance mounts, IT managers are taking the opportunity to mold their departments into profit-making business units. Computerworld's survey uncovered these 11 must-have skills
Read More ...

U.S. IT employers slowly hiring back after layoffs
In the first six months of this year, tech employers added 30,200 jobs to their payrolls after shedding 143,000 jobs over the same period last year
Read More ...

PwC builds new authentication system
PricewaterhouseCoopers has swaped out employees' older software-based private-key certificates for hardware-based storage of new certificates using the Trusted Platform Module
Read More ...

Brocade offers 100G Ethernet at US$100K per port
Router chassis has at least twice the 100G Ethernet density of Internet core routers from Cisco and Juniper. An industry analyst says the move keeps the company up with competitors
Read More ...

Enterprises still a factor in software piracy, BSA says
A new IDC report sponsored by the software industry watchdog says Canada can add thousands of jobs and inject a few billion into the economy by slowing down software piracy rates. Find out what the BSA thinks enterprises could be doing
Read More ...

Ottawa group promises interoperable security
Canadian entrepreneur Terry Matthews leads association that includes six of his companies selling video surveillance, wireless and telephony solutions
Read More ...

Avaya unveils video conferencing products
In addition to five video conferencing systems, Avaya Inc. is shipping user interface software designed to integrate social networking, voice and video conferencing
Read More ...

IE9 ‘unboxes’ Web sites, uses power of ‘whole PC’
Microsoft unveiled its newest browser in beta Wednesday, promising a visually-compelling and faster experience that prioritizes the Web site over the browser, and takes advantage of HTML5 and other standards. New site capabilities for IE9 from eBay and Rough Guides
Read More ...

SAP unveils 10 new ‘industry specific’ analytics apps
The line of BusinessObjects-based apps will work in real time and will target six major industry verticals. Plus, reaction from Levi Strauss’ CIO
Read More ...

Android development extended to BlackBerry, iOS
The WorkLight Mobile Platform, originally for Android, is a set of libraries, server middleware, and native client code that lets mobile applications connect securely to back-end authentication and application servers
Read More ...

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