Thursday, July 18, 2013

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 7/19/2013





ShoreTel Mobility 7 comes with enhanced UC features
Mobility 7 allows users to integrate iOS and Android devices securely, simply and cost effectively into existing enterprise communication applications and infrastructures

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Egnyte brings Google Drive into enterprise file-sharing solution
Users can access files stored on local drives or in the cloud from a single window, the company says

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Accellion adds remote wipe
IT can erase business data on mobile devices without affecting personal information or resetting to factory defaults, the company says

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Cybercrime-as-a-service on the rise: McAfee
All you have to do is type DDoS service in Google and the third or fourth item on the search list will lead you to a site selling denial of service attacks, says Raj Samani of McAfee

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Canadian Tire profits with DIY predictive analytics
Here's how Canadian Tire got on the road to developing its own predictive analytics models

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First RAT binders for Android surfacing
Tools that allow cybercriminals to repackage legitimate Android apps with remote access tools come as no surprise since open source AndroRAT appeared last year, according to Symantec

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Yahoo staging a comeback?
Yahoo is better off today than it was before CEO Marissa Mayer’s arrival, according to Gartner Research analyst

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Fibrenoire expands some carrier Ethernet services
Montreal-based service provider says it is the first in Canada to achieve CE 2.0 certification for certain metro Ethernet services

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Polycom videoconferencing station offers Lync support
The new videoconferencing stations from Polycom can be used as SIP phones and video collaboration tools as well

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How text analytics unlocks big data value
Unstructured data tends to respond to analytical techniques such as text analytics rather than the type of analytics applied to SQL data

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BlackBerry loses two key executives
T.A McCann, a vice president overseeing BlackBerry’s social networks, and Marc Gingras who headed work on the BlackBerry 10 Hub, have left the company

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Chromebooks are hot sellers
A market research firm reports that the low-cost laptops have captured up to 25 per cent of sales of inexpensive computers

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Feds asked to sit out Defcon
U.S. government officials are asked to take a 'time-out' this year from the famous hacker convention because of tensions over Prism snooping scandal

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Watch out for people analytics
Many organizations are turning to big data analytics to shed greater light on workplace behaviour

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Nokia releases 41MP Lumia 1020 Windows Phone
Lumia 1020 sets benchmark in smart phone engineering but Nokia still has to overcome incumbent rivals and low Windows Phone adoption, according to analyst

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U.S agency kills hardware over routine malware warning
The U.S. Economic Development Administration destroyed $170,000 in computers, keyboards, printers and mice over a routine malware infection. A lack of funding prevented the agency from throwing out its remaining $3 million in IT inventory

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India permitted to intercept BlackBerry messages
Indian authorities obtain access to consumer data over BlackBerry's system, but it appears to have dropped demands to be able to intercept business email over BES

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Encouraging words for women in IT
Women don't have to be a superhero to succeed in IT, Microsoft's international partners conference has been told. But sometimes they will need a Bat-shield

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Pirate Bay founder focuses on foiling government spying
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and two other Swedish developers plan to launch an encrypted messaging service aimed at thwarting government online surveillance

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