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09 Feb 2012
ISPs aren’t broadcasters, Supreme Court rules
Disappointed cultural groups won't give up trying to compel Internet service providers to contribute funding to Canadian productions despite ruling
19 Jan 2012
Eastman Kodak files for Chapter 11
Struggling Eastman Kodak sees opportunity in its digital capture patents, and printing and deposition technologies
18 Jan 2012
Wikipedia, Craigslist black out against SOPA midnight
The action by the websites is part of a larger protest against controversial legislation in the U.S.
18 Jan 2012
Oracle offers to drop patent charges against Google
Oracle may be sacrificing the patent charges in hopes of getting an injunction soon
18 Jan 2012
Co-founder Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yang resigned from all his posts at Yahoo effective Tuesday
04 Jan 2012
The date is set for Google vs. Oracle
The trial that will decide whether or not Google infringed on Oracle’s Java patents in creating Android is set to commence on March 19
04 Jan 2012
Yahoo taps ex-PayPal pres Thompson as CEO
Scott Thompson will take over as Yahoo's new CEO on January 9, replacing Carol Bartz, who was fired in September
16 Aug 2011
Ontario government’s first CIO Mark Vale passes away
Vale, the Ontario government’s first chief information and privacy officer, passed away on Friday Aug. 12. Here's a brief look at his career in IT. WITH VIDEO
19 Aug 2009
IN BRIEF: Symantec’s dirtiest Web sites
Some sites have more than 20,000 threats on them, according to the security company. Plus, recognizing the best in business intelligence, and a Vancouver ISP gives its services a 10 Mbps boost
18 Aug 2009
IN BRIEF: Mini notebooks will cure PC market slump, IDC says
Demand has plummeted for desktops, but the netbook phenomenon is helping to hold the line. Plus, a 30 per cent faster multi-function printer from OKI, a billion-chipset Wi-Fi forecast from ABI Research and a new eBay application store
17 Aug 2009
IN BRIEF: Twitter trying to shut down uSocial, CEO says
The Web promotions company has already run afoul of Digg for its services. Now Twitter is accusing uSocial of spamming users. Plus, Canada's mobile phone market recovers, InterAct buys BIO-key law enforcement assets, and two U of T grads pick up seed money from C3
11 Aug 2008
Daintree incorporates Certicom security for ZigBee devices
Daintree’s Sensor Network Analyzer will adapt Certicom’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography
11 Aug 2008
CA announces lots o’ mainframe improvements
CA SymDump Batch r8, CA Datacom r11 SP4, and CA VM:Secure r2.8 SP1 up next
11 Aug 2008
HP spits out five new printers
Enterprise printers help out bankers, and bulk up imaging, print-job accounting, and faxing abilities
11 Aug 2008
Icron Technologies releases USB 2.0 module
The Burnaby-BC-based company said its ExtremeUSB 2.0 Core 2100 Module will allow enterprises to find USB 2.0 devices from a remote PC.
10 Aug 2008
RIM and Wi-LAN make peace
The litigation between the two parties will be dismissed, with RIM licensing some Wi-LAN patents
10 Aug 2008
StarTech.com serves up new Conyx server
New server includes a DHCP client and offline data logging
10 Aug 2008
Turn your handset into a hotspot
Joikusoft has joined forces with FON to make a Symbian-based tool for Wi-Fi access. Find out how it works
06 Aug 2008
Bamboo Cricket helps online retailers get a grip
Ontario-based Bamboo Cricket has announced a new Web-based platform, Managed Solution, to help online retail businesses handle customer service requests.
06 Aug 2008
Don’t go hog wild on storage: Gartner
A research firm advises companies to invest in information access technologies to flag critical information for storage. Find out what’s driving the storage semiconductor market
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Analysis: Taking the heat at BlackBerry World
By: Howard Solomon (02 May 2012)
ORLANDO – It was hot outside the Florida hotel where this year’s annual BlackBerry World conference took place. Inside, it apparently wasn ...
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 soci ...
Ottawa Hospital goes mobile with IBM middleware
By: Brian Bloom (04 May 2012)
Ottawa Hospital has been one of the boldest health care institutions in North America in equipping clinical staff with Apple Inc.’s ...
Shaw wins Internet deal with city of Winnipeg
By: Howard Solomon (16 May 2012)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAP launches Visual Intelligence for casual BI users
By: Brian Bloom (5/16/2012 11:44:00 AM)
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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 offerin ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 con ...
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-m ...
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: ...
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 ...
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