Friday, August 17, 2012

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 17/08/2012





A summer job at NASA
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Interns are starting to take on some of IT's most demanding jobs, including at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Marissa Mayer and the maternal side of IT
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Breaking all the stereotypes, Mayer could be an inspiration to young women to choose careers in technology

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Voice over LTE is taking off--slowly
IT WORLD CANADA: When it comes to LTE, voice is on the agenda but less of a priority than mobile broadband

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Ontario government to help laid-off RIM workers
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Provincial government will work with lobby group Communitech and two Ontario universities to soften the blow of RIM's restructuring

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DFAIT provided platform for IT firms at Olympics
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Thirteen tech companies from Canada showcased their products and services during London Olympics

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Telus sounds alarm about BCE-Astral merger
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: The wireless company is warning that the $3.38 billion merger would put too much power in the hands of its rival

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Cisco: Video will soon dominate Internet traffic
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Cisco predicts that video traffic will account for up to 90% of data flowing over networks in the next few years

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Facebook's new mobile ads push to app stores
The social media giant has recently revealed that more than half of its active users access the site from mobile devices

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Sitemasher to play role in Salesforce Communities
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Salesforce will incorporate the Vancouver-based company's Web design and optimization features

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CIRA investigating dot-ca phishing scammers
Cyber-criminals had sent e-mails purporting to be requests from CIRA to renew domain registrations

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Gartner: Cloud hype confuses, distorts technology
IT WORLD CANADA: "Cloudwashing" is a phenomenon in which vendors use the buzz around cloud computing to sell services that don't have cloud's defining characteristics, Gartner says

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Report: RIM looks to sell NewBay, other assets
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Speculation abounds about whether the mobile device maker will amputate its subsidiary to stay alive

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Interns closing the IT generation gap
In today's world, IT co-op students don't just leave with experience--they also bring some with them

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HP announces new network virtualization products
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: New software will create better connections between data centres, virtual machines and attached storage, the company says

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Red Hat to release enterprise OpenStack
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: The company expects to release a commercial version of the open-source cloud computing software by 2013

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Home Trust goes digital with OpenText
The Canadian trust company will digitize millions of documents and integrate OpenText's document management software with its SAP ERP platform

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Oracle ends open-source HPC Project
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: The code base for Oracle's Fortress programming language product will still remain open source, however

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IBM may be interested in a piece of RIM
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Analysts say RIM's enterprise services division may be worth between US$1.5 billion and US$2.5 billion

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Motorola to lay off 4,000 employees around the world
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: While Motorola has brought Google nearly 10 per cent of its annual revenue in the last quarter, it also suffered a $233 million operating loss

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Apple-Samsung trial: UofT profs testify
Two University of Toronto professors have taken the witness stand for Apple as the trial goes into its half-way point

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