Shaw wins Internet deal with city of Winnipeg By: Howard Solomon (5/16/2012 10:02:00 AM)
Shaw Communications has scored a big win in its campaign to extend its services to municipalities.
The Calgary-based cableco won a bidding contest to supply the city of Winnipeg with Internet and virtual private network service, the parties announced Tuesday.
Shaw president Peter Bissonnette said ...
The social media skill sets a CIO's staff will need By: Sharif Faisal (5/10/2012 10:13:00 AM)
The question is no longer ‘who is on social media?’; it is ‘who isn’t?’ Nearly 20 million Canadians communicate via social media. One in two online Canadians visit a social media site at least once a week, and 35% of us do so every day. Emerging technologies in the area ...
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC By: Paul Krill (5/11/2012 9:47:00 AM)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors.
The project would provide a full-featured version of OpenJDK for the two platforms. OpenJDK serv ...
Open source for an open government By: Brian Bloom (5/10/2012 11:23:00 AM)
One article this week seemed to attract the most attention from our commenters (or at least, the longest comments). We wrote about the 10th anniversary of GOSLING (Getting Open Source Logic into Governments), an organization that promotes open source software and methods in government. GOSLING ...
The cost of open data: A Canadian lawyer's analysis By: Lou Milrad (5/14/2012 2:47:00 PM)
We’ve started hearing a lot over the last year or so about “open data”, particularly in the municipal sector. It’s all about municipalities (and senior levels of government) sharing information with private individuals, principally in digital format and via website porta ...
Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat By: Chris Kanaracus (5/24/2012 12:17:00 PM)
BOSTON -- Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionality as part of an imminent upgrade to its family of cloud-based software, according to a company document.
Chatter Messenger will be general ...
Up-and-coming tech jobs By: Mary K. Pratt (5/24/2012 9:11:00 AM)
Any study of the IT labor market is likely to find that project managers and business analysts are in demand, but what about cloud transformation officers? With big data, mobile computing, social media, cloud computing and the consumerization of IT all converging on IT, some new -- and intriguin ...
HP to trim 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program By: Agam Shah (5/23/2012 4:59:00 PM)
NEW YORK -- Hewlett-Packard will trim 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said Wednesday when it announced quarterly financial results.
The company will shed about 8 percent of its workforce through a combination of layoffs and retirement offers that started la ...
Ontario region looks to boost rural broadband By: Howard Solomon (5/23/2012 2:50:00 PM)
KING CITY, Ont. – Around the world communities are racing to bring broadband to business and homes in the belief that faster speeds on the information highway is the path to prosperity
That’s why representatives of York Region, a sprawling district north-west of Toro ...
Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents: jury By: James Niccolai (5/23/2012 2:39:00 PM)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.
The jury delivered its verdict after more than a week of deliberations. It found no infringement of any of the claims in two Java-related pate ...
VIDEO: Why IT pros need 'soft skills' By: Brian Bloom (23 May 2012)
Unemployment in the high-tech sector is low. But are IT pros getting the jobs they want? Stafflink CEO Tim Collins explains why having impressive technical skills won’t necessarily guarantee long-term job satisfaction.
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC By: Paul Krill (11 May 2012)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors.
The project would provide a full-featured version of OpenJDK for the two platforms. OpenJDK serv ...
Why integrate Wi-Fi radios into small cellular cells By: Ajay Kumar Gupta (15 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass -- (Gupta is team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions, which develops solutions from Canadian companies -- including Mitel Networks, BelAir Networks, DragonWave Inc. and others -- for the Indian market.)
With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service ...
CEOs demand CIOs prepare for growth and mobility By: Mark Chillingworth (15 May 2012)
CEOs have shifted their position and are releasing funds to CIOs that have innovations for mobile users and revenue generation ideas, finds the CIO Survey 2012 from Harvey Nash, a recruitment and outsource services provider.The global survey found that 56 per cent of CIOs are launching projects ...
The social media skill sets a CIO's staff will need By: Sharif Faisal (10 May 2012)
The question is no longer ‘who is on social media?’; it is ‘who isn’t?’ Nearly 20 million Canadians communicate via social media. One in two online Canadians visit a social media site at least once a week, and 35% of us do so every day. Emerging technologies in the area ...