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 ...
Waterloo earns Top 10 spot at global coding contest By: Brian Jackson (5/18/2012 3:30:00 PM)
The University of Waterloo once again had the best Canadian showing at the Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) finishing in ninth place overall at the University of Warsaw today.The “Battle of the Brains” contest is sponsored by ...
Cisco bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop By: John Cox (5/18/2012 12:35:00 PM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Cisco Systems Inc. has announced three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility. The new Smart Solutions packages are by themselves not new at all: they're formed of existing Cisco hardware and softw ...
Researchers break record for Terahertz Wi-Fi By: Sophie Curtis (5/18/2012 11:44:00 AM)
LONDON -- Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan claim to have broken the record for wireless data transmission in the Terahertz band with a data rate 20 times higher than most current Wi-Fi connections.The Terahertz band sits between the microwave and infrared regions of the sp ...
Open-source messaging at (nearly) the speed of light By: Jon Gold (5/18/2012 10:54:00 AM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent. "What I did when I was a small kid and I wanted to know what was inside something, was just smash it with a hammer," Ehm, a member of the beams control group at the European nurc ...
Narrow loss for UofA at programming challenge By: Brian Jackson (5/17/2012 3:46:00 PM)
Navid Zolghadr has no experience with sailing, but that didn’t stop this University of Alberta student from programming computer simulated-boats that very nearly bested the rest of the world in a head-to-head competition held at the University of Warsaw on Wednesday. In a Masters of Computer S ...
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 ...
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 ...
Your biggest security threat? Your people By: Dave Webb (09 May 2012)
An employee uses business credentials to shop online. Another clicks on a link in an e-mail message from a complete stranger. A systems admin goes to a forum for help with a problem and gives detailed hardware, software, network and configuration information.
The exploits, payloads and motives may ...
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 ...
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 ...