Friday, October 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 09/10/2009



Tim O'Reilly talks Gov 2.0 in Ottawa
The book publisher and conference producer makes a keynote appearance at GTEC to discuss how the public sector could make more data and platforms available to partners. Just like Apple and the iPhone
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GTEC: Treasury Board refreshes IT policies
Security, transparency and accountability are key areas under review at one of the federal government's key administrative agencies. Canada's national CTO outlines the key steps that still need to be taken
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How a Las Vegas casino was infected by malware
The biggest threat to your POS terminals is a malware infection, according to security experts at this week’s SecTor conference in Toronto. Read about three real attacks and how the hackers were able to so easily infect, control, and export data from these terminals
Read More ...

eHealth Ontario: $1B later, the apps aren't done
Ontario's auditor general says out-of-sync apps development, lack of planning and frequent changes in leadership hamstrung the initiative in his long-awaited review of the electronic health record initiative in Ontario
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Ciena inks US$521 million deal for Nortel assets
The Linthicum, Md. telecom equipment maker has made a stalking horse offer for Nortel’s metro Ethernet and optical networking businesses. The agreement is subject to competitive bidding and would be worth US$521 million
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Hello net neutrality, goodbye Internet
Tier one providers now peer for free with each other, but this could stop if they are forced to charge by the bit. The other option is to pass on the higher cost of peering to users
Read More ...

Tim O'Reilly talks Gov 2.0 in Ottawa
The book publisher and conference producer makes a keynote appearance at GTEC to discuss how the public sector could make more data and platforms available to partners. Just like Apple and the iPhone
Read More ...

GTEC: Treasury Board refreshes IT policies
Security, transparency and accountability are key areas under review at one of the federal government's key administrative agencies. Canada's national CTO outlines the key steps that still need to be taken
Read More ...

How a Las Vegas casino was infected by malware
The biggest threat to your POS terminals is a malware infection, according to security experts at this week’s SecTor conference in Toronto. Read about three real attacks and how the hackers were able to so easily infect, control, and export data from these terminals
Read More ...

eHealth Ontario: $1B later, the apps aren't done
Ontario's auditor general says out-of-sync apps development, lack of planning and frequent changes in leadership hamstrung the initiative in his long-awaited review of the electronic health record initiative in Ontario
Read More ...

Ciena inks US$521 million deal for Nortel assets
The Linthicum, Md. telecom equipment maker has made a stalking horse offer for Nortel’s metro Ethernet and optical networking businesses. The agreement is subject to competitive bidding and would be worth US$521 million
Read More ...

Hello net neutrality, goodbye Internet
Tier one providers now peer for free with each other, but this could stop if they are forced to charge by the bit. The other option is to pass on the higher cost of peering to users
Read More ...

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