Wednesday, March 23, 2011

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 22/03/2011




Amazon's Appstore for Android opens for business
One feature will allow developers to test applications without installing them. Amazon is trying to lure users away from Google's Market by offering users a free paid app every day
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Dell's PowerEdge microservers take shape
The company's new PowerEdge microservers are single-socket, low-power servers aimed at cutting energy bills. The new servers are built for customers looking to host Web, print, content or file servers
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Mitel adds video presence to desktop client
The idea “puts video at the fingertips of the user,â€‌ says a company official, who also said that clients for iPhone and Android smart phones will be released soon
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Why one leader throws out the â€کold system’ of teaching
MEET THE FINALISTS of ComputerWorld Canada’s IT Leadership Awards 2010. IT Educator of the Year nominee, Faten Alshazly, doesn’t believe in the traditional top-down, uni-directional style of education. What best suits her and her students
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Enterprise videos must have metadata, analyst says
With increasing amounts of video content in company databases, keywords and tags are vital to make the unstructured data searchable
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Gaming technology makes hands-free surgery possible
Some University of Waterloo graduates are using Microsoft’s Kinect technology to help surgeons view and manipulate MRIs and CT scans using hand gestures. One co-founder explains why it will be only five years before we start interfacing with devices this way. WITH VIDEO
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Force10's top edge switch tested
For network managers whose foremost switch requirements are high port density and very low latency, the S4810 is a good fit
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B.C. firm’s tools may be in your network appliance
Vineyard Networks’ application inspection tool isn’t well known, but the company says an increasing number of network equipment makers are licencing it
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Intel's ultramobility group chief departs
The processor giant said the departure of Anand Chandrasekher won't hurt development of tablet and smart phone chips. Intel has struggled to make its presence felt in this market thus far
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Firefox 4.0 makes early appearance
While Firefox 4.0 won't officially be released until Tuesday, it is already on Mozilla public FTP servers. The Mozilla Foundation, however, is cautioning people not to download the new browser from its sites yet
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Why Steve Jobs doesn't 'get' Amazon's Android store
OPINION: Amazon may be days from launching an Android app store, and despite what a certain turtlenecked CEO may say, it's great news
Read More ...

Amazon's Appstore for Android opens for business
One feature will allow developers to test applications without installing them. Amazon is trying to lure users away from Google's Market by offering users a free paid app every day
Read More ...

Dell's PowerEdge microservers take shape
The company's new PowerEdge microservers are single-socket, low-power servers aimed at cutting energy bills. The new servers are built for customers looking to host Web, print, content or file servers
Read More ...

Mitel adds video presence to desktop client
The idea “puts video at the fingertips of the user,â€‌ says a company official, who also said that clients for iPhone and Android smart phones will be released soon
Read More ...

Why one leader throws out the â€کold system’ of teaching
MEET THE FINALISTS of ComputerWorld Canada’s IT Leadership Awards 2010. IT Educator of the Year nominee, Faten Alshazly, doesn’t believe in the traditional top-down, uni-directional style of education. What best suits her and her students
Read More ...

Enterprise videos must have metadata, analyst says
With increasing amounts of video content in company databases, keywords and tags are vital to make the unstructured data searchable
Read More ...

Gaming technology makes hands-free surgery possible
Some University of Waterloo graduates are using Microsoft’s Kinect technology to help surgeons view and manipulate MRIs and CT scans using hand gestures. One co-founder explains why it will be only five years before we start interfacing with devices this way. WITH VIDEO
Read More ...

Force10's top edge switch tested
For network managers whose foremost switch requirements are high port density and very low latency, the S4810 is a good fit
Read More ...

B.C. firm’s tools may be in your network appliance
Vineyard Networks’ application inspection tool isn’t well known, but the company says an increasing number of network equipment makers are licencing it
Read More ...

Intel's ultramobility group chief departs
The processor giant said the departure of Anand Chandrasekher won't hurt development of tablet and smart phone chips. Intel has struggled to make its presence felt in this market thus far
Read More ...

Firefox 4.0 makes early appearance
While Firefox 4.0 won't officially be released until Tuesday, it is already on Mozilla public FTP servers. The Mozilla Foundation, however, is cautioning people not to download the new browser from its sites yet
Read More ...

Why Steve Jobs doesn't 'get' Amazon's Android store
OPINION: Amazon may be days from launching an Android app store, and despite what a certain turtlenecked CEO may say, it's great news
Read More ...

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