Tuesday, March 9, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 09/03/2010



iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner 1.0
Every once in a while, you find a tool that solves a real-world problem and you wonder how you got by without it. IZotope Music & Speech Cleaner 1.0 is a powerful, highly effective, and reasonably priced utility that cleans up podcast files and just about any other audio clip without a lot of fuss. It’s essentially a lighter and less complicated audio processing tool than the freeware Audacity, and you don’t really need to know anything about sound waves or why an MP3 even has pops and clicks. Music & Speech Cleaner just presents simple buttons to fix problems, does its magic, and lets you export the cleaned-up file.
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Appcelerator set to release Titanium cross-platform app dev technology
Titanium lets developers build native apps for both desktop and mobile devices using Web techniques.
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EC antitrust probe is latest clash in Google-Microsoft war
Microsoft's apparent backing of complaints that prompted a European antitrust investigation of Google is but the latest clash in the ongoing war between the two technology titans, analysts say.
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IT scurries to meet e-health records deadline
Hospitals and doctors' offices looking to roll out electronic health records won't get federal money for the ambitious effort unless they meet certain as-yet unknown criteria -- and do so within two years.
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Opinion: Time to get smart about smartphones
Scot Finnie says mobile is no longer the future; its time is now.
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Consider the Internet for 2020 census, panel says
The U.S. Census Bureau should consider collecting data via the Internet instead of mailed-in forms in 2020, a National Research Council report says.
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Paper prevails over electronic documents
Vendors of scanners and document management systems are chagrined that many office workers continue to archive important documents in paper form rather than using electronic systems.
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IBM sees sensor use beyond data centers
IBM plans to promote the use of sensors to manage systems and monitor energy use in buildings of all sorts, not just data centers.
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Opinion: Are you paying your vendors enough?
Thornton May thinks a focus on low costs skews our relationships with vendors.
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Opinion: Certifications are no longer optional
Bart Perkins thinks the word "certified" is going to become synonymous with "employable."
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