Thursday, May 31, 2012

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 31/05/2012





Face.com spotlights facial recognition technology
The technology currently sits in a 'sweet spot,' one analyst said

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Kim Dotcom gets access to documentary evidence
The application before a New Zealand court for the disclosure of information was opposed by the U.S.

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NoSQL vendor 10Gen secures $42M in fresh funding
Money will fund new development of MongoDB, fast-growing company says

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Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars
Oracle's platform as a service strategy may take center stage at an event with CEO Larry Ellison next week

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Huawei: There are no illegal state subsidies
Denial comes after report that the European Commission is preparing to launch a major trade investigation into Huawei and ZTE

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U.S. releases digital government action plan
Obama administration tells public servants the default standard for information should be open data, and to include Web APIs to make distribution easier

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RIM warns of another quarterly loss
In a news release company warns of "significant spending reductions and headcount reductions throughout the remainder of the fiscal year"

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Ex-U.S. CIO warns governments to deliver better
Bureaucrats need to ask why it's easier for people to buy books online than to get public services, Vivek Kundra told a Canadian audience

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More firms will monitor social media use: Gartner
Sixty per cent of companies will be watching employees' social media accounts for security breaches by 2015, the analyst firm says -- six times the number who do it now

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UK warns popular Web sites to comply with cookie law
Not even the Cabinet Office could escape the attention of the Information Commissioner, who wants to know if it and dozens of businesses are going to follow the law

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Cisco admits to some fumbles
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc.nowned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media.
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