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Jul 30, 2010

FEDTECH Magazine - The Many Faces of Cloud

(30-Jul-10) It takes the defense industry years to design and build a new tank or jet fighter. But when it comes to cloud computing, the Defense Information Systems Agency has rolled out services faster than most of its civilian counterparts and with a speed that rivals the private sector. DIS...

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Jul 30, 2010

ITWorld Canada - Wedge Networks unwraps 10 Gbps gateway for ISPs

(30-Jul-10) A Calgary security company is about to release a 10 Gigabit per second deep content inspection appliance it says is particularly suited for service providers and carriers. Wedge Networks Inc. says its NDP-2080 can handle the needs of the most demanding data centres thanks to its d...

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Jul 22, 2010

Bloomberg Businessweek - Now Skype Wants to Go Corporate

(22-Jul-10) Skype, which disrupted the telecommunications industry with free or low-cost calls routed over the Internet, is once again an independent company. EBay (EBAY) bought the Estonian startup in 2005, but, after a strained relationship, sold most of its stake for $2 billion in November. No...

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Jul 22, 2010

ITBusiness - Why you need to manage smartphone security risks

(22-Jul-10) Although there aren't any prevalent security attacks or threat mechanisms associated with smartphones in the market today, security vendors and analysts are urging mobile device users to use security best practices on them, just as they would with their computers. With recent advan...

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thumbnail for Toronto Star - Netflix to bring Internet movies and TV to Canada
Jul 19, 2010

Toronto Star - Netflix to bring Internet movies and TV to Canada

(19-Jul-10) For Canadian movie and TV lovers, there will soon be a new way to watch their favourite flick on demand. U.S.-based Netflix announced Monday it would launch a Canadian service this fall that delivers these shows via the Internet to computers and TVs for a monthly fee. The long-a...

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Jul 19, 2010

CBCNews - Netflix video-on-demand to launch in Canada

(19-Jul-10) U.S. online video giant Netflix, Inc., is launching a subscription service in Canada to stream movies and TV episodes over the internet to customers' TVs and computers. Canadian customers will pay a monthly fee to get unlimited video-on-demand starting this fall, Netflix announced ...

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thumbnail for ITBusiness - World Cup super scorers -- spammers, phishers, hackers
Jul 13, 2010

ITBusiness - World Cup super scorers -- spammers, phishers, hackers

(13-Jul-10) The World Cup final may have elicited the most penalty cards ever issued by a referee in the championship game, but FIFA's 2010 tournament also boasts another record for fouls of a different type. Spammers, phishers, and hackers of every breed attempted to exploit interest in the w...

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Jul 12, 2010

ChannelPro Magazine - Going Diskless: Thin Is In

As interest in desktop virtualization heats up, so do opportunities for thin clients. Although a customer doesn’t have to be considering a push into desktop virtualization to be a candidate for thin clients, thin-client computing fits hand in glove with desktop virtualization. In such a scenario,...

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thumbnail for ConnectIT - Atmos Online offering shutdown signals caution on cloud services
Jul 05, 2010

ConnectIT - Atmos Online offering shutdown signals caution on cloud services

(5-Jul-10) EMC's announcement that it plans to shut down Atmos Online for production usage and limit it strictly to a development environment has provided a cautionary note for enterprises looking at cloud services, and for smaller players looking to monetize the cloud. That's the view of Info-Te...

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