Bell, Twitter partner in social analytics move By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/7/2013 10:57:00 AM)
Bell Media and micro blogging site Twitter yesterday announced a partnership that will involve research and analytics initiatives around social media and television viewing.
Statements from both companies indicate that the partnership will be around the analysis of social conversations gathered fro ...
Toronto provider recovering from DDoS attack By: Howard Solomon (6/5/2013 10:57:00 AM)
A Toronto domain name management provider is recovering from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that hit DNS providers in at least three countries earlier this week.
easyDNS was a victim of an amplification attack, which sees servers of an organization used to amplify an initial small nu ...
Wind chair demands Ottawa flex its muscles By: Howard Solomon (6/4/2013 11:24:00 PM)
(ITWC photo)
The chairman and CEO of Wind Mobile is nothing if not bold.
On Tuesday Anthony Lacavera stood before a lunch crowd of telecommunications and regulatory officials in Toronto and demanded the Harper government radically shoulder aside the private sector in the cell ...
Ontario government in email deletion scandal By: Howard Solomon (6/10/2013 9:47:00 AM)
One of the enduring myths of computing — at least among IT novices -- is you can never completely erase what’s on a hard drive.
There are forensic experts armed with super secret software, goes this belief, who can find what ever you want to destroy – if it’s not on the har ...
Panasonic Toughpads now here By: Howard Solomon (6/17/2013 9:29:00 AM)
(The Toughpad FZ-G1 is powered by an Intel i5 CPU)
Panasonic is bringing the company’s Toughpad tablets to Canada, giving organizations needing a ruggedized mobile device a choice of Windows 8 Pro and Android 4.0 versions.
The company said Friday that all three units have pa ...
Digital to overtake traditional revenues in 2015 By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 9:47:00 AM)
More than half of the revenues of Canadian entertainment and media firms will come from digital sources by 2015, according to a recent study by tax and financial advisory firm Ernst &Young Inc.
The company said at least 68 per cent of media and entertainment firms in the country are transformin ...
‘Critical’ security warning for BlackBerry Z10 By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 9:15:00 AM)
A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Protect software built into Z10 smart phones could allow hackers to gain access to the passwords of some devices, according to a security advisory issued by BlackBerry (TSE: BB).
By taking advantage of “weak permissions” malicious applications will be a ...
Ottawa improves open data portal By: Howard Solomon (6/18/2013 11:05:00 PM)
The federal government has launched an improved version of its Open Data Portal along with a new open government licence for using datasets, calling on software developers and citizens to use more of the information to build applications for fun or profit.
“These tools will prov ...
Verizon testing Canadian telecom waters By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/18/2013 5:20:00 PM)
The chief financial officer of Verizon Communications Inc. today confirmed reports that the New York-based carrier intends to enter Canada’s wireless market
Although Wind Mobile was earlier reported as a potential takeover target, Fran Shammo, Verizon CFO, did not name any specific Canadian c ...
Tug-of-war in the public cloud By: IT World Canada (6/18/2013 3:12:00 PM)
Hewlett-Packard COO Bill Veghte closed the company's Discover conference last week with a blockbuster announcement: that HP had won over HR software-as-a-service provider Workday from Amazon Web Services to HP's public cloud. "They are doing that because they want a cloud that they can rely on ...
Shopify, others recruit IT workers laid off by IBM By: Nestor E. Arellano (14 Jun 2013)
IBM Canada is still staying largely silent two days after reports that it is laying off staff across North America.
Early reports said that the technology giant is likely to cut anywhere from 6,000 to 8,000 jobs globally. According to an IBM employee group named Alliance@IBM, the layoffs notices ha ...
Bell, Twitter partner in social analytics move By: Nestor E. Arellano (07 Jun 2013)
Bell Media and micro blogging site Twitter yesterday announced a partnership that will involve research and analytics initiatives around social media and television viewing.
Statements from both companies indicate that the partnership will be around the analysis of social conversations gathered fro ...
Rural users lose when spectrum is hoarded: Experts By: Nestor E. Arellano (05 Jun 2013)
Rural Internet users are losing out on broadband access because large service providers are “hoarding” spectrum, according to experts who discussed the future of the wireless industry in Canada yesterday.
The panelists discussing The Next Generation of Wireless at the Canadian Telecom S ...
Wind deal bogged down by security issues By: Nestor E. Arellano (14 Jun 2013)
VimpelCom Ltd., the Amsterdam-based telecom company investing in Wind Mobile, has been negotiating a deal for greater control over the Toronto wireless carrier for nearly eight months now, however concerns over national security has stymied its efforts.
Canadian officials are exercising caution in ...
HP’s 3Par storage system gets all-flash capability By: Nestor E. Arellano (11 Jun 2013)
LAS VEGAS—Hewlett-Packard’s converged storage product is getting an all-flash makeover aimed at boosting speed maximizing availability and cutting operation cost.
At the HP Discover 2013 event here on Tuesday the company introduced the new 3Par StoreServe 7450 storage system, which ...