Thursday, April 28, 2011

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 28/04/2011





Rogers to roll out LTE network in 2011
BREAKING NEWS Four Canadian cities will get LTE this year, with expansion to Canada's Top 25 markets in 2012, Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed told company shareholders at its annual general meeting

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Nokia hands Symbian OS work to Accenture
The company also plans to cut a further 4,000 jobs by the end of next year. Accenture will initially provide Nokia with software development and support services for the Symbian mobile platform, and later with software and services around the Windows Phone platform

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CenturyLink to buy Savvis for $2.5B
The deal will allow CenturyLink to offer Savvis' managed hosting services. The combined company will be led primarily by the Savvis leadership team, including its CEO Jim Ousley

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Sony to launch two Android tablets later this year
The company's first tablets will come in a slate or foldable design. Sony didn't announce pricing details or specific launch dates

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Federal pay system breach shows bad security plan: analyst
The cyber attack on the federal government’s employee payment system illustrates the lack of an overarching strategy for the public sector’s IT infrastructure, as well as the need for a lot more than just $90M toward cyber security by the Conservative government, said one analyst

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Open Text updates Web management tool for tablet era
The Waterloo, Ont.-based content management firm said the update will give content producers and marketers the ability to easily format rich media for various form factors when making site updates. This will alleviate the pressure for such tasks on many IT shops

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Force10 taking data centres into zettabyte era
ZettaScale line of switches are designed to offer users a choice between a centralized and a distributed core network.

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Alcatel-Lucent enterprise business for sale: report
Reuters says the network equipment manufacturer is meeting with potential buyers this week in San Francisco. Formed in 2006 with the merger of Alcatel and Lucent, it's been struggling ever since

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Lawson accepts $2B takeover bid by Infor
Six weeks after Infor first made an unsolicited offer for Lawson, the combined company is set to be one of the industry's largest enterprise business application vendors after SAP and Oracle

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Dell Boomi connects the cloud to the enterprise
The company's Boomi AtomSphere can bridge internal systems with public clouds. The new version, AtomSphere Spring 11, adds Java Message Service connectors for middleware products offered by IBM, Progress Software, Tibco and WebMethods

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The worst CIO excuse: 'Above my pay grade'
If you want the "C" in chief information officer to be anything more than ceremonial, George Gorsline says it's time to recognize that corporate strategy is everyone's job. Take this advice

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When trusted IT pros go bad
One rogue IT employee can do more damage than an army of hackers. Here are three horror stories

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Crafting a business strategy from the bottom
Many BAs have discovered that they can better align IT's business and technical capabilities with larger company goals by identifying specific strategic needs and organizing these into themes

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Successful tech startups offer IT tips for CIOs
Groupon, SlideShare, Box.net and Zendesk employ novel IT technologies and practices to propel their growth and innovation

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Huawei open to more US acquisitions
Despite a setback in attempting to keep 3Leaf Systems, executive says the equipment maker will consider another acquisition in the United States

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Canon adds fingerprinting technology to scanners
The company’s Mississauga, Ont.-based Canadian subsidiary is pushing the network scanners as an ideal device for security-minded business. Plus, an Info-Tech research analyst weighs in on where vendors should be going next in the printing and scanning world

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Rogers, Bell, Telus still dominate wireless
Increased competition from new entrants pushes up rate of wireless adoption, figures show. However, the big three still have the overwhelming number of subscribers

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Nine gotchas to heed before diving in cloud development
Whether developing, testing, or deploying your apps in the cloud, you have to unlearn some beliefs and learn new ones to make it work. Are you up to speed?

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Now on iTunes: Every Move You Make
BLOGOSPHERE A file on your iPhone records that shows where and when you use location-based services. That's a privacy catastrophe waiting to happen, say bloggers

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Amazon EC2 outage shows risks of cloud
The outage proves the cloud is still risky, but affected customers have to look in the mirror when choosing who to blame

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Microsoft fills SharePoint gaps with Office 365 app store
Why one analyst has been suggesting to Microsoft for five years now that it needs an app store for SharePoint

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Cloud storage startup Cirtas retreats
The maker of cloud storage gateways is backing out of the market to reorganize. Cirtas, founded in 2008, sold data-center systems designed to make public cloud storage behave like onsite arrays

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Amazon outage sparks frustration, doubts about cloud
Amazon is suffering a partial outage, now in its second day, that is affecting what may be a large number of sites, as well as some prominent ones. Why on-going problems could scare businesses away from cloud adoption

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FileMaker delivers flexible, cross-platform database
OPINION: FileMaker doesn't get much respect as a business-class database, especially among Windows users. But it does offer the unique benefit of working across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms

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Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers
Whether part of a conscious strategy or not, every financial services firm is using social media for things like B2B collaboration and product development

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LibreOffice development still on track after Oracle move
One week after Oracle said it would no longer sell a commercial version of the productivity suite, The Document Foundation on Friday announced a second beta for LibreOffice 3.4

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The worst CIO excuse: 'Above my pay grade'
If you want the "C" in chief information officer to be anything more than ceremonial, George Gorsline says it's time to recognize that corporate strategy is everyone's job. Take this advice

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