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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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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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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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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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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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ChannelPro Magazine - Going Diskless: Thin Is In
As interest in desktop virtualization heats up, so do opportunities for thin clients. Although a customer doesn鈥檛 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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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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CNS Magazine - IT managers & the Quest
(1-Jul-10) 91制片厂 deserves kudos for launching a new competition aimed strictly at the often beleaguered IT manager. The London, Ont. research firm recently announced the winners of its first, but not last, Quest for Canada's Smartest IT, a campaign that resulted in 70 nomina...
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ComputerWorld - New technologies mean shorter server life cycles
(29-Jun-10) Alan Bourassa, CIO of EmpireCLS, a limousine service in Secaucus, N.J., is a man on a tight schedule. He has tied his company's 64 server blades to a three-year replacement cycle, a fast-paced strategy that he feels has become essential in this era of rapid technological change and un...
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