Monday, April 16, 2012

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 4/16/2012





Ottawa releases open government action plan
The Harper government will direct bureaucrats to think of disclosing information by default. To keep track of everything, it will create a hosted government-wide records database

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Interview: The future of the Internet
RADIO ITWC This week on the podcast, futurist Dan Burrus talks about the future of the Internet and technology

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SecureZIP for iOS targets employee side of BYOD
PKWARE aims to prevent data breaches by securing files on employee mobile devices, but one analyst wonders if the policy is enforceable. Plus, why the company passed on developing a BlackBerry version

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Cloud Foundry is like Linux for the cloud: VMware
The company claims the focus is on letting developers write code, not manage middleware

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Context-based computing: What the network will know
Systems that understand what we're doing and what we need, even before we need it – that's long been the dream. CIOs who make it a reality will prove just how innovative they are

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Microsoft forms unit to engage open source community
The new business unit, called Microsoft Open Technologies, will address the gap between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies

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SaaS market to grow 17.9% to $14.5 billion: Gartner
North America is generating most of the business, but sales are rising quickly in Western Europe and Asia-Pacific

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Epicor lawsuit may show danger of going solo on ERP
Group Manufacturing Services wants its money back, but Epicor says the customer erred by attempting the project on its own

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New platform helps port COBOL apps to clouds
ELPaaS compiles legacy applications into Java code

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Leaked: roadmaps for Office 15, IE10 and more
A leaked Microsoft roadmap shows an early 2013 release date for Microsoft Office 15

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Carriers asked if they’re serious about the cloud
Telecommunications consultants grill some of the country's biggest providers on the future of cloud-based telecom services

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MAILBAG: BYOD, CRTC, IRI and JD
A roundup of some of your recent comments on our stories and blog posts about mobile phones and carriers, non-viruses and geopolitical Internet intrigue

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City of Edmonton migrates office tools to Google cloud
Edmonton is the first city government to adopt Google's cloud-based office applications. City's CIO encourages other government agencies thinking about moving to the cloud to "be brave"

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Tech workers stress over skills gap
Organizations of all stripes have reported deep cuts to their training budgets in recent years, and they have held off on initiatives that would have given workers a way to learn new technologies

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Techies work harder as benefits go bust
Even though average U.S. IT salaries were up 2.1% for 2012, average bonuses dropped by 1.1%, creating a drag on what would otherwise feel like forward motion for many workers

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Financial services under more frequent DDoS attacks
Security firm Prolexic says attack traffic against the sector rose in intensity as well

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Apple Trojan infection shows weekend decline
But 50,000 UK users could be infected

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