Dell board wants more details on Icahn bid By: Nestor E. Arellano (5/13/2013 11:19:00 AM)
Dell Inc.’s board of directors wants more information on investor Car Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management’s $21 billion cash offer for the company.
The offer proposes to give stockholders $12 per share as well as the option to keep their stock.
In a letter to Icahn on Monday, a s ...
BlackBerry is on a roll By: Howard Solomon (5/14/2013 12:19:00 AM)
ORLANDO – Research In Motion officially opens its annual BlackBerry conference here today on a roll with the launch of a new keyboard-equipped smart phone called the Q5 just a few weeks after the release having launched its Q10 smart phone and the successful debut three months ago of its ...
Adobe’s subscription-only plan meets backlash By: Nestor E. Arellano (5/10/2013 11:16:00 AM)
Thousands of users of Adobe Systems Inc.’s software are taking to the Internet their displeasure over the company’s decision to adopt a subscription only model for its popular creative tools.
More than 5,000 people have already signed an online campaign on Change. org calling on Adobe t ...
Fairmont Raffles uses analytics to boost profits By: Jeff Jedras (5/10/2013 11:25:00 AM)
SAN FRANCISCO – As Fairmont Raffles’ executive director of customer relationship marketing, Andrea Johnson is helping to lead the charge at the international hotel and resort company to use analytics to create a better guest experience, and a more profitable one for the company.
It was ...
New platform from Canadian wireless equipment maker By: Howard Solomon (5/21/2013 2:22:00 PM)
A Canadian maker of wireless backhaul networks for enterprises and telecom operators has created a new hardware and software platform which it says can operate its radios on a wide range of licenced or unlicenced frequencies.
Toronto’s Redline Communications Group Inc. said Tuesday its Unive ...
Veeam adds acceleration to backup By: Howard Solomon (5/24/2013 1:53:00 PM)
Many vendors say the latest version of their application gives the solution a boost, but Veeam Software makes it a literal promise.
That’s because Version 7.0 of its Backup & Replication software for virtualized environments includes WAN acceleration.
“Backups are a lot of da ...
Tired of hackers? Fight back, says U.S. group By: Howard Solomon (5/24/2013 10:21:00 AM)
The best defence is a good offence, goes a saying.
That's what a private group in the U.S. recommended this week out of frustration with hackers trying to steal intellectual property of organizations.
In effect, the group called the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual ...
WebRTC: Disruptive or oversold? By: Howard Solomon (5/24/2013 9:58:00 AM)
The latest disruptive technology said to be greater than sliced bread may be right in front of your nose.
It’s called WebRTC, a Javascript application programming interface (API) that allows multimedia communications through browsers. No clients to download and configure, no plug-ins. Just c ...
Wind Mobile financier back in Canada By: Howard Solomon (5/24/2013 9:22:00 AM)
Manitoba Telecom Services is getting out of the national business market in a deal that might end up re-invigorating wireless carrier Wind Mobile. But it also raises the possibility of MTS being bought by a bigger carrier.
MTS said Friday morning that it has sold its Allstream d ...
Edmonton agrees to expand Shaw Wi-Fi network By: Howard Solomon (5/23/2013 3:43:00 PM)
Edmonton’s city council has agreed to allow Shaw Communication’s Wi-Fi network to expand to municipally-owned areas across the city.
The planned expansion will give wireless Internet access to people with mobile devices in a broader area than the original footprint includi ...
Think internationally, Kobo CEO says By: Dave Webb (16 May 2013)
It's important for Canadian digital media companies to think big -- think internationally -- right out of the box, Michael Serbinis, co-founder of Canadian success story Kobo, told the audience at the Canadian Digital Media Network's Canada 3.0 conference in Toronto this week.There's a $250-billion ...
BlackBerry is on a roll By: Howard Solomon (14 May 2013)
ORLANDO – Research In Motion officially opens its annual BlackBerry conference here today on a roll with the launch of a new keyboard-equipped smart phone called the Q5 just a few weeks after the release having launched its Q10 smart phone and the successful debut three months ago of its ...
No fee for Windows Blue update: Analysts By: Nestor E. Arellano (13 May 2013)
Microsoft Corp. will likely not charge Windows 8 users for the operating system's upgrade codenamed “Blue,” according to technology industry analysts.
Windows Blue is not only the codename for the update, it is also the term for Microsoft’s adoption of a faster release schedule th ...
Pirate Bay co-founder to run for EU parliament By: Nestor E. Arellano (15 May 2013)
Peter Sunde, co-founder of the file sharing site Pirate Bay, says he plans to run for the European Parliament in 2014 under the banner of the Finnish Pirate Party.
Announcing his candidacy in his blog Copy Me Happy with a post titled EUP 2913, Sunde referred to online censorship as one of the most ...