Sunday, September 26, 2010

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 25/09/2010



Meet the Judges: Susan Doniz
IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS: We profile the people who’ll be evaluating the nominees for ComputerWorld Canada’s IT Leadership Awards. Susan Doniz talks the power of face-to-face interaction and putting the moose on the table
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Ericsson Canada predicts 50 billion connections by 2020
VIDEO: By the year 2020, there will be about 50 billion wireless connections in the world, said Dragan Nerandzic, CTO of Ericsson Canada during Mobile Innovation Week
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Beware Stuxnet, the new breed of cyber destruction
The devious worm first discovered in Iran in July and built to attack the physical world that is industrial control systems is not your run-of-the-mill threat, warns a Symantec expert. The new era of cyber attacks on the smart devices that manage your life
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No XP support ensures slow IE9 rollout, bloggers say
BLOGOSPHERE Microsoft is taking another step to finally stamp out Windows XP adoption among businesses, but some bloggers think the plan won’t succeed
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FBI investigating 'Here you have' worm
Evidence links the author to a UK mobile provider and a Middle Eastern time zone
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IBM to open three analytics centers in Europe
The centers will focus on finances, transporation, supply chain and other areas, IBM said
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Voltaire ships storage accelerator software
Voltaire Storage Accelerator can be loaded on to an x86 server running Linux and can access Fiber Channel storage through either 10 Gigabit Ethernet or Infiniband interfaces. Voltaire Ltd. claims a storage-server pair can process up to a million IOPS
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Oracle database design slowed Chase online banking fix
An analyst says the problem was an excessive push to maintain data integrity that forced the bank to restore exorbitant amount of data
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Facebook outage caused by database glitch
An error in database logic is the cause of an outage lasting more than two hours on Facebook. Like the recent Twitter cross-site scripting worm incident, there’s a similar lesson here for IT database admins
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Twitter’s new Canadian staff to build analytics tool
According to a Twitter employee at this week’s Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit, the social networking firm plans to launch a free, real-time analytics platform by the end of the year. The project is expected to be headed by the team behind Dabble DB
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How to get noticed by an analyst
Industry analysts are an invaluable source for Canadian start-ups seeking credibility and exposure. Five tips on how to ‘effectively engage’ with analysts from IDC Canada’s Krista Napier, who presented on the topic at Mobile Innovation Week
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China may overtake India in outsourcing
India may well be the current leader of the outsourcing market but China is slowly closing the gap with this nation, according to a new report by Ovum
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Visual Basic developers get access to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools include templates and emulator support
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Meet the Judges: Susan Doniz
IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS: We profile the people who’ll be evaluating the nominees for ComputerWorld Canada’s IT Leadership Awards. Susan Doniz talks the power of face-to-face interaction and putting the moose on the table
Read More ...


Ericsson Canada predicts 50 billion connections by 2020
VIDEO: By the year 2020, there will be about 50 billion wireless connections in the world, said Dragan Nerandzic, CTO of Ericsson Canada during Mobile Innovation Week
Read More ...


Beware Stuxnet, the new breed of cyber destruction
The devious worm first discovered in Iran in July and built to attack the physical world that is industrial control systems is not your run-of-the-mill threat, warns a Symantec expert. The new era of cyber attacks on the smart devices that manage your life
Read More ...


No XP support ensures slow IE9 rollout, bloggers say
BLOGOSPHERE Microsoft is taking another step to finally stamp out Windows XP adoption among businesses, but some bloggers think the plan won’t succeed
Read More ...


FBI investigating 'Here you have' worm
Evidence links the author to a UK mobile provider and a Middle Eastern time zone
Read More ...


IBM to open three analytics centers in Europe
The centers will focus on finances, transporation, supply chain and other areas, IBM said
Read More ...


Voltaire ships storage accelerator software
Voltaire Storage Accelerator can be loaded on to an x86 server running Linux and can access Fiber Channel storage through either 10 Gigabit Ethernet or Infiniband interfaces. Voltaire Ltd. claims a storage-server pair can process up to a million IOPS
Read More ...


Oracle database design slowed Chase online banking fix
An analyst says the problem was an excessive push to maintain data integrity that forced the bank to restore exorbitant amount of data
Read More ...


Facebook outage caused by database glitch
An error in database logic is the cause of an outage lasting more than two hours on Facebook. Like the recent Twitter cross-site scripting worm incident, there’s a similar lesson here for IT database admins
Read More ...


Twitter’s new Canadian staff to build analytics tool
According to a Twitter employee at this week’s Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit, the social networking firm plans to launch a free, real-time analytics platform by the end of the year. The project is expected to be headed by the team behind Dabble DB
Read More ...


How to get noticed by an analyst
Industry analysts are an invaluable source for Canadian start-ups seeking credibility and exposure. Five tips on how to ‘effectively engage’ with analysts from IDC Canada’s Krista Napier, who presented on the topic at Mobile Innovation Week
Read More ...


China may overtake India in outsourcing
India may well be the current leader of the outsourcing market but China is slowly closing the gap with this nation, according to a new report by Ovum
Read More ...


Visual Basic developers get access to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools include templates and emulator support
Read More ...


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