RIM clarifies three misperceptions about BlackBerry By: Jennifer Kavur (8/27/2010 8:12:00 AM)
Research in Motion Ltd. confirmed that it is extending an offer to the Government of India, in a statement released Thursday.
The offer proposes the establishment of an industry forum, led by RIM in India, that would support “the lawful access needs of law enforcement agencies while preservin ...
Canadian Tire, McCain Foods share BI adoption tactics By: Kathleen Lau (8/26/2010 3:00:00 PM)
TORONTO— Business intelligence (BI) reports still largely remain the domain of senior executives and power users, but frozen food manufacturer McCain Foods Ltd. has taken a very direct approach to bringing business intelligence down to the level of the plant worker.
An executive with the Flo ...
HP makes US$2B bid against Dell’s US$1.8B By: Rafael Ruffolo (8/27/2010 4:41:00 PM)
The latest move in the bidding war for 3PAR belongs to Hewlett-Packard Co. who has yet again outbid Dell Corp. with a $2 billion offer on Friday. The counter offer trumps Dell’s bid late Thursday that matched HP’s $1.8 billion.
HP’s $2-billion counter offer is a continuation of th ...
Dot-co sets example for dot-ca, says lawyer By: Jennifer Kavur (8/25/2010 2:52:00 PM)
Canada is lagging behind other countries in online commerce and the dot-ca domain is following suit, says Toronto-based lawyer Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, who hopes to secure a seat on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA).
But dot-ca isn't struggl ...
CRTC rules in favour of Internet providers By: Greg Meckbach (8/30/2010 4:23:00 PM)
A Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decision Monday affecting Internet service providers was praised as balanced and fair by the head of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers but a telecommunications analyst says it will keep lots of lawyers employed, Primus ...
Mitel CEO Don Smith to leave post By: Howard Solomon (9/3/2010 4:53:00 PM)
After more than nine years at the helm of Mitel Networks Inc., Don Smith is leaving as chief executive officer of the unified communications applications developer to sit on the board directors.
Smith’s decision, announced Thursday with the release of quarterly financial results, comes only ...
How National Energy manages its WAN By: Greg Meckbach (9/3/2010 1:55:00 PM)
National Energy Equipment Inc., which plans to install wireless phones in its vehicles, is using a private wide-area network (WAN) managed by Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. for its 15 offices.
Primus is not considered a facilities-based carrier because it resells last mile servic ...
Microsoft uses Bing home page to push IE8 By: Nancy Gohring (9/3/2010 12:20:00 PM)
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday started featuring a small advertisement on its Bing home page for Internet Explorer 8 in an apparent effort to encourage more people to migrate to the latest version of its browser.
People using other browsers, such as Mozilla's Firefox or earlier versi ...
Meet the Judges: Andrew Dillane By: Kathleen Lau (9/3/2010 10:03:00 AM)
Andrew Dillane predicts that the IT leader will be the most important business leader in the next decade and beyond. “I’m a big believer that IT can do a lot more than just enable the business. I personally think that view is a little weak. I think it should have an equal place at the ta ...
IT doesn't handle aging well By: Dave Webb (9/3/2010 9:24:00 AM)
Entrepreneur-turned-academic Vivek Wadhwa calls it Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret. In a recent TechCrunch article, the visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information describes an implicit ageism in the hiring and compensation of programmers and engineers i ...
VMware, Citrix lead in VDI tools, Gartner says By: Rafael Ruffolo (01 Sep 2010)
At many of VMworld’s major general sessions, VMware Inc. has stuck to its strong message of trying to bridge the gap between applications running on private and public clouds.
In taking this approach, it seems that desktop virtualization has taken a bit of a back seat for the company. Besid ...
Ready for 2020? Advice for every career stage By: Mary Brandel (26 Aug 2010)
Information technology has always been a fast-changing field. But nothing compares to the expected sea changes in the next decade that will impact the career plans of every generation of IT worker."The rate of change has accelerated dramatically," says Alain Chesnais, president of the Association fo ...
Oracle might still live up to 2007 Java pledge: Gosling By: Kathleen Lau (25 Aug 2010)
There is still a way for Oracle to calm down people concerned about the fate of the Java programming language under the vendor's stewardship, according to James Gosling, known as the "father" of Java.
"Lightning might strike and they might live up to their 2007 commitment to create an independent J ...
Ethernet switch, router revenue strong so far: IDC By: Howard Solomon (25 Aug 2010)
Sales of Ethernet switches and routers around the world continue to show strength, says an industry analyst, but make no assumptions about a trend.
“Things are good relative to last year’s dismal performance,” Rohit Mehra, director of enterprise communications infrastructure resea ...
The shape of the IT worforce in 2010 By: Thornton A. May (26 Aug 2010)
How we work and how we think about work have been evolving since we humans came into existence. The ancient Greeks and Hebrews viewed work as a bad thing. It was what slaves did. Over time, cultural norms celebrating and encouraging hard work became secularized such that by the time of Ben Franklin' ...
