Wednesday, December 1, 2010

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 30/11/2010

HP unifies application development management
Hewlett-Packard’s ALM 11 aims to automate app modernization and covers requirement management, quality, and performance processes
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WikiLeaks moves to Amazon after DOS attacks
Hacker dubbed 'The Jester' claims responsibility for attacks, says F-Secure exec
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AOL to end support for Netscape browser
Netscape was the original mass-market Web browser and helped to popularize the Internet in the mid-1990s, but it has long taken a back seat to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
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Tablets expected to clobber PC sales in 2011
Apple iPad and other tablets are already hitting global PC sales, says Gartner. The research firm says the popular form factor should displace around 10 per cent of PC units by 2014
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There’s a whole lot of apps for that, Autodesk says
AUTODESK UNIVERSITY 2010: Just hours before the engineering software firm opens up its annual Autodesk University conference, the company talks up Apple’s iPad as a key tool for its customer base. Plus, updates to SketchBook and AutoCAD WS mobile
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4G to cover more than 4 billion people by 2015
The rush to LTE by carriers is about to explode, says an industry analyst as operators realize the importance of speed
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Cisco social platform available to mid-size firms
Quad, an company-wide social media collaboration platform available only for large enterprises, can now be bought by mid-size firms. An industry analyst says Cisco-based firms may find it useful
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What A CIO Should Know: CIOCAN Peer Forum 2011
Our monthly look at the best blogs, videos and events for Canadian chief information officers includes early details on a major conference and an interview with the IT executive at Starbucks
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UK government CIO resigns
In an email announcing his resignation from the role that he has held for nearly five years, John Suffolk shared some of his successes, saying that he has made “substantial progress”
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New free management tools from Citrix
Xnapshot and QuickLaunch to support XenDesktop. The tools are designed to help XenDesktop users collect hardware information
Read More ...


Mellanox buys Voltaire for US$218 million
The deal will create a bigger player in Infiniband technologies. Mellanox plans to keep both companies' product lines, but also intends to converge them in the future, according to a statement
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Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans
Nearly half of respondents are either running, planning or considering some type of private cloud. But many deployments remain nascent, according to the IOUG study
Read More ...


How one CIO cured his info glut woes
At about the same time Herbalife was seeing this increase in transaction volume, it implemented a global Oracle ERP system and expanded the use of data analytics and business intelligence, as well as the use of video for sales and promotions
Read More ...


Symbian Foundation takes source code offline
Dec. 17 is the set date. Developers who can't download it all then will have to pay for a physical copy to be shipped some time next year
Read More ...


Microsoft allows WP7 development using Visual Basic
The WP7 Marketplace could get more apps now that Visual Basic developers are supported
Read More ...


HP unifies application development management
Hewlett-Packard’s ALM 11 aims to automate app modernization and covers requirement management, quality, and performance processes
Read More ...


WikiLeaks moves to Amazon after DOS attacks
Hacker dubbed 'The Jester' claims responsibility for attacks, says F-Secure exec
Read More ...


AOL to end support for Netscape browser
Netscape was the original mass-market Web browser and helped to popularize the Internet in the mid-1990s, but it has long taken a back seat to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
Read More ...


Tablets expected to clobber PC sales in 2011
Apple iPad and other tablets are already hitting global PC sales, says Gartner. The research firm says the popular form factor should displace around 10 per cent of PC units by 2014
Read More ...


There’s a whole lot of apps for that, Autodesk says
AUTODESK UNIVERSITY 2010: Just hours before the engineering software firm opens up its annual Autodesk University conference, the company talks up Apple’s iPad as a key tool for its customer base. Plus, updates to SketchBook and AutoCAD WS mobile
Read More ...


4G to cover more than 4 billion people by 2015
The rush to LTE by carriers is about to explode, says an industry analyst as operators realize the importance of speed
Read More ...


Cisco social platform available to mid-size firms
Quad, an company-wide social media collaboration platform available only for large enterprises, can now be bought by mid-size firms. An industry analyst says Cisco-based firms may find it useful
Read More ...


What A CIO Should Know: CIOCAN Peer Forum 2011
Our monthly look at the best blogs, videos and events for Canadian chief information officers includes early details on a major conference and an interview with the IT executive at Starbucks
Read More ...


UK government CIO resigns
In an email announcing his resignation from the role that he has held for nearly five years, John Suffolk shared some of his successes, saying that he has made “substantial progress”
Read More ...


New free management tools from Citrix
Xnapshot and QuickLaunch to support XenDesktop. The tools are designed to help XenDesktop users collect hardware information
Read More ...


Mellanox buys Voltaire for US$218 million
The deal will create a bigger player in Infiniband technologies. Mellanox plans to keep both companies' product lines, but also intends to converge them in the future, according to a statement
Read More ...


Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans
Nearly half of respondents are either running, planning or considering some type of private cloud. But many deployments remain nascent, according to the IOUG study
Read More ...


How one CIO cured his info glut woes
At about the same time Herbalife was seeing this increase in transaction volume, it implemented a global Oracle ERP system and expanded the use of data analytics and business intelligence, as well as the use of video for sales and promotions
Read More ...


Symbian Foundation takes source code offline
Dec. 17 is the set date. Developers who can't download it all then will have to pay for a physical copy to be shipped some time next year
Read More ...


Microsoft allows WP7 development using Visual Basic
The WP7 Marketplace could get more apps now that Visual Basic developers are supported
Read More ...


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