Monday, August 12, 2013

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 8/13/2013





Samsung prices new laptop at the top
One of the latest ultrabooks from the company is priced at US$1,400. Some industry analysts say that in a slumping PC market that's not good thinking

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Salesforce.com hikes price of app security review
Revenue from the price change will be reinvested into the review process to reduce wait times for partners

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Oracle releases VMs for 12c databases
With single instance support users can create a new virtual machine and get their database up and running in a matter of minutes, says Oracle

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BlackBerry Z10, Q10 get Pentagon approval
United States DoD network deploying BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 to support BB10 smart phones

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U.S. cloud firms could lose $35 B due to Snowden leak: Study
European cloud providers can exploit the privacy issues raised by NSA's Prism mass surveillance program, according to a report

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BlackBerry ponders going private: Report
Amid falling market share BlackBerry is considering following the lead of Avaya and Dell in going private, according to reports

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Making Hadoop faster with GPU
In some scenarios, a GPU can accelerate computations by nearly five to 25 times per node, according to researchers

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Why desktop virtualization is bad news for Windows 8
Virtual desktop infrastructures are allowing organizations to take advantage of the BYOD trend and turning tablets into viable PC replacements

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Enterprise software myths dispelled
Business intelligence, not ERP suites, are what organizations are looking for this year, according to an analyst who looks at what IT managers are buying

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Montreal’s CAE bags $100 M drone training contract
The U.S. Air Force chooses CAE Inc. to provide classroom, simulator and live flying instructions to Predator and Reaper pilots

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Publishers oppose US feds Apple eBook restrictions
Publishers who colluded with Apple say the restrictions will punish them and not the iPad maker

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Telus, Bell almost tied in wireless subscribers
Latest quarterly financial results show Bell slightly ahead in the race for the country's second biggest wireless carrier

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China headed for ‘Windows XP apocalypse’?
Three out of every four PCs in China are still running Windows XP which will no longer receive security updates, hot-fixes and free or paid support from Microsoft come August 8 next year

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Ottawa imposes new fees on hiring foreign workers
Changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program was prompted in part by this year’s IT job outsourcing scandal involving Royal Bank

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iOS market share slides as Windows Phone rises
Lack of a new product launch since the iPhone 5 debuted nearly a year ago has led the iOS to lose some market share, according to IDC analysts

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BlackBerry lets go of three more VPs
Departure of three senior executives comes as BlackBerry continues the second phase of its transformation plan

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SAP sheds more light on hybris push
Hybris e-commerce platform being aimed at verticals outside of retail such as manufacturing, banking and financial services

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Rogers getting deeper into mobile device management
Carrier now offers a full suite of services with standard pricing for enterprises that want to outsource all or part of the burden of looking after mobile devices

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Wind posts 'modest' Q2 results: Analyst
Startup carrier adds only 18,700 net new subscribers in the quarter, compared to almost three times as many a year ago

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IBM, Google others partner to battle Intel
Consortium built around IBM's Power chip technology aims to wrest market share from the X86 chip design popularized by Intel and AMD

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New developer tool launched for Windows Phone
Customizable templates in Windows Phone App Studio enable even non-developers to create and share mobile apps

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Tool released for IPv6 SLAAC attack
Using the tool, attackers can pretend to be an IPv6 router on a network and view all the Web traffic on that network

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Microsoft warns of Windows Phone Wi-Fi flaw
Wi-Fi flaw could lead handsets to automatically connect to rogue hotspots which allow attackers to intercept encrypted credentials

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Inside cloud sharing services
Staff are increasingly sharing files through these offerings, sometimes without the approval or in defiance of IT. We look at a new breed aimed at enterprises

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Nasuni, Backupify offer cloud-to-cloud backup options
Cloud-to-cloud backup options for enteprise users grow as vendors offer new services

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Amazon’s Bezos to buy The Washington Post
Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos promises he will not change the "values" of The Post and will not run the day-to-day operations of the company

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IBM’s Flex System servers gets power boost
The new server chassis will have more processsing power and increased density for faster deployment of virtual machines

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Android malware "out of control," says Fortinet
Semi-annual threat backup report says the security vendor is seeing 13,000 malware samples a day, up from 1,000 at the beginning of the year

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More Android ‘master keys’ lying around?
Lack of uncertainty in ability of carriers to install timely Android patches compounds the problem, according to security researcher

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Gartner questions SaaS security assurances
There are hundreds of software-as-a-service offerings, but an IT research firm has discovered their security promises often aren't worth the paper they're written on. Be prepared

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