Friday, October 7, 2011

IT News Head Lines (IT World Canada) 07/10/2011





U.S. IT industry shrinks as an employer in the past decade
Although the U.S. continues to lead the world in many areas of tech, overall tech employment is being hurt by an erosion of manufacturing and telecommunications jobs

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Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise
Chinese network equipment maker says its going to sell enterprise switches in North America. However, there are no details about its plans for Canada

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Google the most-sought employer, again
College students pick Google for third straight year; IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Apple also make list of most attractive employers

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When customer service needs fixing, ask the CIO
As the customer takes center stage at many companies, CIOs are taking over marketing, customer support, and other areas that may have seemed a poor complement for IT in the past

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Silver surfers are past it? Never!
We know punched paper tape from punch cards. We know what green bar paper is. We've mounted mag tape and manhandled diskpacks the size of hat boxes

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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
The founder, former CEO and chief visionary of Apple Computer Inc. passed away Wednesday, after a long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. A timeline of the life of a man who changed the way we all see computers and consumer electronics

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From friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in
Remembrances and condolences of the late Apple chairman come from far and wide: from Bill Gates to Sergey Brin to Ashton Kutcher

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Apple in a post-Steve Jobs world: Our take
Just a little over a month before the Apple co-founder's death, Jeff Jedras and Rafael Ruffolo debated the company's future without him

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Remembering Steve Jobs, the man who saved Apple
Both as the founder of the first successful personal-computer company and as the man who transformed a nearly-bankrupt Apple, Jobs established himself as an American icon of business and technology

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Apple chairman Steve Jobs dead at 56
The charismatic Apple co-founder and chairman had struggled with a rare form of pancreatic cancer for a number of years

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Paessler Network Monitor bulks up
PRTG now has an Enterprise Console so multiple instances of the application can be seen on one screen. It also supports IPv6

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Canadian IT pros lax on social media security, says study
Usage of social media tools in business is outpacing security efforts from IT professionals, the security firm found. Fiaazi Walji, Websense’s Canadian manager, explains

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Ontario cities prowl U.S. show for IT investment
The person beside you at Interop New York is shopping, but not for a router or a server. Meet Blair Patacairk, who's part of a team encouraging IT execs to branch out

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Videoconferencing in Canada: The 3 biggest barriers
More than 150 network administrators and other IT decision-makers responded to our online survey about creating face-to-face meetings via technology. These are the dealbreakers the industry must overcome

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Massive DDoS attacks threaten VoIP services
The telecommunications industry isn't sharing information about attacks as well as they should, a U.S. operator tells a conference

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Oracle cancels Marc Benioff's keynote
Benioff invited people to hear his speech on Wednesday at a San Francisco restaurant

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