Wednesday, June 22, 2011

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 22/06/2011





ICANN OKs new top-level domains
The domain expansion won't benefit real people, just those who can afford the $185,000 upfront fee

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Microsoft, Skype deal gets U.S. clearance
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has announced early termination of a review into the deal

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Tool turns performance reviews into ‘social Web experience’
Canadian vendor Rypple’s Loops software replaces the archaic process of creating performance reviews after the fact. Instead, it’s social and agile: aggregates feedback and recommendations in an iterative and ongoing fashion to allow for continuous improvement and adjustment

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Nokia needs to pick a market, consultant says
With the handset maker continuing to struggle, one New York-based industry observer argues that Nokia should better define itself before moving forward. This means choosing between the consumer space and the enterprise market

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SGI, Intel to speed up supercomputers 500 times by 2018
Silicon Graphics hopes to use Intel's MIC (many integrated cores) accelerator chips for high-performance computing. Today's fastest supercomputers top out at around 2.5 petaflops, but efforts to improve throughput and on-chip performance are under way

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McAfee’s enterprise security suite gets update for execs
The latest enhancements to McAfee’s Security Management solution, which integrates the ePolicy Orchestrator and McAfee Risk Advisor programs, are tailored especially to high-level execs, says an exec from McAfee Canada

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Google, Apple, Facebook turn N.C. into data centre hub
Cloud computing growth is bringing big benefits to small towns in western North Carolina. Large cloud providers are building monolithic facilities in areas that offer relatively low-cost land as well as abundant and somewhat inexpensive electricity

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Apple calms concerns over volume Lion upgrades
Corporate and education customers will have to download the new OS from the Mac App Store just once. Businesses can purchase a minimum of 20 licenses for Lion at US$30 each

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What A CIO Should Know: Welcome to the Klub
Our regular list of article links, blog posts, videos and events of interest to Canadian chief information officers includes a new industry association and thoughts on reporting structures

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Cisco announces new teleconferencing products
Cisco's new endpoint is "absurdly easy" to deploy, a company rep says

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