Wednesday, June 19, 2013

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 6/20/2013





Ottawa improves open data portal
New features include better search capabilities and a place where developers can access technical information to help create applications

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Verizon testing Canadian telecom waters
Verizon's CFO says the company is looking for opportunities in Canada, but declined to name any company that it intends to partner with or snap up

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Tug-of-war in the public cloud
HP claims a major enterprise win from Amazon; Amazon begs to differ. How enterprises are likely to maintain multiple cloud relationships

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NetScout merges network, app performance managers
Company abandons its separate modules to pour almost all analysis capabilities into one platform

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Pinterest as a career tool
Career coach Nancy Collamer offers five ways to use the social media network to advance your career. How would you apply these techniques to IT?

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Stoddart raises privacy concerns over Google Glass
Canadian privacy czars urge Google for more transparency on Google Glass as they raise concerns over possible "ubiquitous surveillance" of individuals

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Prism whistleblower hoped Obama would bring change
There's very little private information that intelligence agencies cannot access, according to Edward Snowden

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AMD to make ARM-based server processors
Next year the manufacturer will release accelerated and central processing units that it says will be leaders in compute-per-watt

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BlackBerry Q10 gets thumbs up from financial analysts
Although sales of BlackBerry's Z10 smart phone are slowing, its QWERTY keyboard-equipped sibling is selling better than expected, according to analysts

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OnX buys another U.S. service provider
Canadian-based cloud and managed service provider buys a Chicago company with disaster recovery processes that will be adopted here

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Shopify, others recruit IT workers laid off by IBM
As IBM Canada remains silent over layoffs, online shopping startup Shopify sets up hiring booth outside Big Blue's Ottawa office

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Nokia ships its last Symbian handset
Finnish phone maker says Symbian's complexity was among the chief reasons for the once dominant mobile OS’s fall from grace

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OpenText torques Web content publisher
Web Experience Management now has an improved interface and more features that let users place targeted content into social media sites

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Wind deal bogged down by security issues
Canadian officials are reportedly concerned about handing over control of Canadian wireless carrier to a Russian entity

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Building a spy-proof enterprise
To guard against cyber snooping, businesses need to encrypt data at rest, while in transit and even when it is being used, according to security experts

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Windows Stores to open at Best Buy
Microsoft says “department-level takeover” will see the opening of Windows Stores in 100 Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Canada

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Marketers struggle with analytics: Gartner
Many organizations are plagued by disconnected analytic efforts, according to research firm Gartner Inc.

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How retail is learning about BI from the NSA
For many businesses the use of predictive analytics to boost the bottom line is no longer a question of should we, but rather of where and how

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