Analysis: Taking the heat at BlackBerry World By: Howard Solomon (5/2/2012 9:15:00 PM)
ORLANDO – It was hot outside the Florida hotel where this year’s annual BlackBerry World conference took place. Inside, it apparently wasn’t hot enough for some financial analysts.
They were looking for evidence that Research In Motion is about launch products that will hack into ...
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 ...
Ottawa Hospital goes mobile with IBM middleware By: Brian Bloom (5/4/2012 5:46:00 PM)
Ottawa Hospital has been one of the boldest health care institutions in North America in equipping clinical staff with Apple Inc.’s iPads, starting distribution to doctors and nurses almost three years ago.Recently it enhanced their use by linking the tablets and iPhones to a mobi ...
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 ...
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 ...
Canadian employee survey indicates dark view of cloud By: Shane Schick (5/16/2012 2:41:00 PM)
If Canadian enterprises are using cloud computing, their employees may be the last to know. A recent research bulletin from Toronto-based Pollara of more than 1,000 employees across the country showed some disturbing figures: 37 per cent said they were not aware of whether their companies are using ...
Consumerization trends hit IT service management By: Robert L. Mitchell (5/16/2012 1:15:00 PM)
Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement within their service-management tools. But many organizations are also still grappling with some very basic IT service management (ITSM) process issues. IT ...
SAP launches Visual Intelligence for casual BI users By: Brian Bloom (5/16/2012 11:44:00 AM)
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SAP launched a new HANA-powered business intelligence tool aimed at non-IT users Wednesday at its SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orla ...
Unified communications still fragmented By: Bob Violino (5/16/2012 10:17:00 AM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile ...
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 ...
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 ...
Consultant says critical infrastructure at risk By: Sean Martin (07 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls the U.S. supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next. With so many connections and shared vulnerabilities between the ...
SAP fires back against Oracle's HANA 'falsehoods' By: Chris Kanaracus (04 May 2012)
BOSTON -- SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods."
The presentation last Friday by Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development at ...
Open-source in government can save billions: group By: Brian Bloom (04 May 2012)
On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, a Canadian advocacy group for open-source software in government says it’s closer to achieving its goal: saving taxpayers $1 billion a year.Getting Open Source Logic Into Government (GOSLING) is an Ottawa-based community of open-source enthusiasts d ...
Google's BigQuery made to crunch big data By: Thor Olavsrud (08 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. --Few companies in the world have access to datasets as large as Google does, and, unsurprisingly, Google is one of the companies at the forefront of Big Data analytics. Now Google plans to share the wealth by giving others access to its data crunching infrastructure with its new G ...