Friday, August 10, 2012

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 10/08/2012





Bell, Rogers price LTE PlayBook at $350
BREAKING NEWS: LTE version of 7-inch tablet makes a quiet debut

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RIM turns around patent verdict
BREAKING NEWS: Research In Motion has managed to overturn a California jury's verdict in a patent trial.

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U.S. agency wants rethink on cellphone radiation
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: The General Accountability Office says regulator should consider that other countries have tougher exposure laws than the U.S.

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In praise of hackathons
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: Wikipedia defines a hackathon as an event where software developers work together intensively on a project. So why not a Government 2.0 hackathon?

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Allstream adds managed WAN optimization to services
The service provider will configure and install Steelhead appliances from Riverbed to suit customers, then provide regular performance reports

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Ottawa gives and takes from CANARIE
The national research network gets more funding than originally announced, but less than it got in the last five years

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Avaya updates conferencing solution
Collaboration 7.0 is more scalable and it supports the new Flare user interface for iPads and Windows laptops

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Regina Transit plans for large-scale automation
The transit company has bought a sophisticated operations platform that will track employees, buses and money in real time

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Job tips for former RIM employees
Software developers who have worked for RIM are in high demand, says an IT recruiter

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Companies expect big data to affect sales
While the majority are concerned about big data, only 16 per cent have a strategy in place to cope with it, according to a report

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Your smartphone could power the Curiosity rover
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: The brains running the newest vehicle on Mars isn't the latest CPU. But as this article points out it doesn't have to be

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Is Hadoop practical for the enterprise?
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: Hadoop will be more useful to businesses if it is taken out of open-source, says one vendor

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Oracle to receive $306 million in TomorrowNow case
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: The deal centres on the lawsuit Oracle filed in 2007 over data theft by former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow

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Twitter analytics used for U.S. presidential race
Site tracks Twitter users' feelings about Obama and Romney

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Reporter's hacking ordeal is a security lesson
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Do you interlink your email, provider and cloud storage accounts? Read this and you'll learn how one person found out the hard way why it's dangerous

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SolarWinds updates trio of applications
Network management software maker adds the ability to monitor the quality of Cisco VoIP calls and other enhancements to its portfolio

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Apple-Samsung trial: Apple expert fooled
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: Susan Kare has worked for Apple and should know its look, but at a trial she testified iPhones and Samsung devices look confusingly alike

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Get the most from a Wi-Fi only tablet
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: Can't afford a cellular-connected tablet? That doesn't mean the Wi-Fi version is crippled. Here's 10 tips for maximizing its use

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SAP offers iRise visualization technology add-on
iRise’s Enterprise Visualization Platform, used to create highly functional simulations of software projects, is now part of SAP’s ASAP methodology

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Steve Wozniak predicts dark future for cloud
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Apple co-founder sees "a lot of horrible problems in the next five years"

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First telco falls under new investment rules
Primus Telecommunications has bought the majority shares of Globility Communications, the first of an expected wave of acquisitions

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Apple-Samsung trial: An unshakable witness
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: The California trial moves into its second week with a threat from the judge to both sides to cut down on the number of objections

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iPhone rumour: Inside the upcoming model
ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: There's no shortage of rumours on what the next-generation iPhone will look like. Here's a story and video claiming a first look at the screen

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