Thursday, March 10, 2011

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 09/03/2011




New protocols give speed jolt for iPhones, iPads
Researchers have found new uses for the accelerometers, GPS locators, gyroscopes and compasses on smart phones: Link performance to whether the device is moving or still.
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Three reasons VoIP abuse will grow
Vishing scams and SPIT to collect personal information are ways criminals are taking advantage of VoIP, say Cisco officials
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Are you making sense of your social engagement?
FEATURE Your business may be using social media, but that doesn't mean you know the value of that social interaction. Experts discuss the evolving space of social analytics
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Cisco cuts costs of Umi home videoconferencing
Cisco said it integrated Umi with TelePresence primarily for business-to-consumer use, but analysts believe a lot of enterprises will be interested in setting up home workers with low-cost teleconferencing
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UCSD report finds issues with wiping data on SSDs
A recent study by the University of California, San Diego finds that the internal architecture of newer solid-state drives make them more difficult to sanitize than traditional hard disk drives. Find out why
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OpenText adds â€کmobile app layer’ with weComm purchase
First, it was content and workflows. Now, the Canadian enterprise content management vendor turns its attention to the Web experience on mobile apps. Buying the British maker of a mobile app engine means enterprises can build and run apps on all sorts of mobile devices
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IT pros push for National IT Day
Dell and Intel have created a petition to encourage the Canadian government to introduce a national day recognizing IT professionals. So far, the campaign has reaped 2,114 signatures
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Canadian mental health hospital adopts tablet PCs
It wasn’t enough for the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences to just digitize the entire paper-based patient charting process. It also went mobile with a fleet of tablet PCs. And it introduced new health care software to clinicians
Read More ...


New protocols give speed jolt for iPhones, iPads
Researchers have found new uses for the accelerometers, GPS locators, gyroscopes and compasses on smart phones: Link performance to whether the device is moving or still.
Read More ...


Three reasons VoIP abuse will grow
Vishing scams and SPIT to collect personal information are ways criminals are taking advantage of VoIP, say Cisco officials
Read More ...


Are you making sense of your social engagement?
FEATURE Your business may be using social media, but that doesn't mean you know the value of that social interaction. Experts discuss the evolving space of social analytics
Read More ...


Cisco cuts costs of Umi home videoconferencing
Cisco said it integrated Umi with TelePresence primarily for business-to-consumer use, but analysts believe a lot of enterprises will be interested in setting up home workers with low-cost teleconferencing
Read More ...


UCSD report finds issues with wiping data on SSDs
A recent study by the University of California, San Diego finds that the internal architecture of newer solid-state drives make them more difficult to sanitize than traditional hard disk drives. Find out why
Read More ...


OpenText adds â€کmobile app layer’ with weComm purchase
First, it was content and workflows. Now, the Canadian enterprise content management vendor turns its attention to the Web experience on mobile apps. Buying the British maker of a mobile app engine means enterprises can build and run apps on all sorts of mobile devices
Read More ...


IT pros push for National IT Day
Dell and Intel have created a petition to encourage the Canadian government to introduce a national day recognizing IT professionals. So far, the campaign has reaped 2,114 signatures
Read More ...


Canadian mental health hospital adopts tablet PCs
It wasn’t enough for the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences to just digitize the entire paper-based patient charting process. It also went mobile with a fleet of tablet PCs. And it introduced new health care software to clinicians
Read More ...


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