Saturday, October 1, 2011

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 01/10/2011





The biggest questions for Oracle OpenWorld
Fusion Applications, Exadata and cloud computing will be among the hottest topics at Oracle's annual party

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Fujitsu rolls out Salesforce.com to internal staff
Fujitsu has rolled out Salesforce.com CRM to replace its legacy CRM solution

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Concerns over U.S. snoops drive NDP to use cloud encryption
One of Canada's largest political parties uses cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store voter information and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law.

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Canadian Cancer Society Ontario cures WAN woes
The non-profit organization needed to consolidate its network, but performance issues were getting in the way. How a successful installation is paving the path towards videoconferencing

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How Amazon's Fire could burn RIM
OPINION The new tablet on the block poses a threat to RIM not just because of increased competition, but also because it highlights RIM's biggest weakness on the consumer front

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Former HP CEO Apotheker to get more than US$9.6M
A regulatory filing shows what HP will pay its outgoing and incoming CEOs. Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, will receive a base salary of just $1 per year

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Dell launches new ultrathin laptop first in China
The company's XPS 14z is slated to arrive in other regions later this year. Dell noted that China has become the world's largest PC market

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Amazon's Silk Browser May Not Be Smooth With Privacy
Amazon’s new Silk browser may compromise your security by passing your private data through Amazon's servers

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Italian bloggers plan demonstration over fines
Right of reply legislation, which would have bloggers require allowing response to any and all critiques, dubbed 'fascist'

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Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel
A backup disk containing unencrypted personal data is missing from TRICARE, a health system for servicemen

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Romance scams pick on divorced, lovelorn
Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters.

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Copyright reform law returns with digital locks rule
But much of the details from last year’s controversial bill has stayed the same, with a digital locks rule at the centre of the legislation. Plus, commentary from ITAC and Internet law professor Michael Geist

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