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30 Apr 2013
CBC executive to head Twitter Canada
Kirstine Stewart becomes Twitter's head of Canadian operations at a time when the microblogging site is rapidly expanding its reach globally
16 Oct 2012
Mayer lures Google exec to Yahoo
Henrique De Castro will become chief operating officer at the search engine, responsible for sales, operations, media and business development
23 Aug 2012
IT's most powerful women
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED A slideshow features the highest profile female tech executives
16 Aug 2012
Marissa Mayer and the maternal side of IT
IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Breaking all the stereotypes, Mayer could be an inspiration to young women to choose careers in technology
14 Jun 2012
Women must overcome the impostor syndrome
A Gmail engineer talks about how women in IT positions shouldn't succumb to negative thinking
17 Aug 2011
Women in IT leaders celebrate triumphs, tackle challenges
The Computer Dealer News hosted event brought together women from across the IT channel to discussion their personal experiences working in the traditionally male-dominated industry
12 Apr 2011
CWC THIS WEEK: The father of Canadian computing
VIDEO PLAYLIST Kathleen Lau chats with Canadian computing pioneer Calvin Gotlieb; Sony digs out after an earthquake and tsunami; opportunities for women in IT
30 Mar 2011
IT skills don’t match employer needs: report
Jobs opening up in ICT increase demand for more ICT graduates, while supply dwindles. A new report by two Canadian technology councils finds a discrepancy between candidate education and what employers are looking for
02 Sep 2010
Tips for women, from women, on advancing in IT
At the request of the CIO Executive Council, female senior IT leaders collaborated to document their most important advice for women moving up the IT ladder. Try this download link
02 Aug 2010
Girls' tech camp celebrates 10th anniversary
VIDEO: Pre-teen girls extract DNA, design LED bracelets and program dancing robots at IBM's annual E.X.I.T.E. camp in Toronto
26 Aug 2009
IBM appeals to girls with microchipped butterflies
The IBM Toronto Lab wrapped up its annual E.X.I.T.E. Camp last week, a 3-day program designed to get pre-teen girls interested in technology and engineering. WITH VIDEO
28 Jul 2009
Dell settles sexual discrimination class action suit for $9.9 million
Under the terms, Dell admits no wrongdoing but puts $3.8 million into fund for base pay adjustments for current female employees
19 Jun 2008
To win in IT, women have to get in the game
Nearly 40 per cent of gamers in North America are women, and in Asia 69 to 70 per cent of handheld gamers are women. The Anita Borg Institute's Telle Whitney sees a trend emerging
19 Jun 2008
Women in Canadian IT: How the best get ahead
Executives from Microsoft, Bell Canada, CATA and others meet at a national forum to talk about how they approach problems compared to their male counterparts. Plus: Can tech jobs be sexy?
19 Jun 2008
Be yourself and prove yourself, Carly tells women in IT
In this interview Carly tells women in IT why it's important that they be they be themselves and bring who they are to the job.
19 Jun 2008
Are we there yet, ladies of the IT industry? Uh, no
It seems there is wide acknowledgement of the lack of diversity in technology and its negative impact — especially in the fields of computer science and computer engineering. The greater concern is complacency
19 Jun 2008
Female IT pros still haven't closed wage gap
The discrepency has narrowed, but that doesn't mean it's an even playing field, some professionals say.
26 Feb 2008
How women can pick up the skills shortage slack
Executives from Microsoft, IBM, CIPS and York University discuss strategies to attract more female recruits, family-friendly work environments and the challenges for internationally educated professionals
13 Nov 2007
Aussie women in IT want more flexible workplace
Businesses can attract and retain IT staff by endorsing flexible working conditions and facilitating a variety of work-life balances, female IT managers say
19 Apr 2007
Growing gender gap in IT jobs requiring on-call staff
King, who attended this week's Storage Networking World conference, co-sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, is one example of what some attendees said could become a major problem for organizations -- the alarming number of women who are currently abandoning IT jobs like storage administration that require workers to be on-call at virtually all hours.
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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 s ...
Dell board wants more details on Icahn bid
By: Nestor E. Arellano (13 May 2013)
Dell Inc.’s board of directors wants more information on investor Car Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management’s $21 billion cash offer for ...
Adobe’s subscription-only plan meets backlash
By: Nestor E. Arellano (10 May 2013)
Thousands of users of Adobe Systems Inc.’s software are taking to the Internet their displeasure over the company’s decision to adopt a su ...
Fairmont Raffles uses analytics to boost profits
By: Jeff Jedras (10 May 2013)
SAN FRANCISCO – As Fairmont Raffles’ executive director of customer relationship marketing, Andrea Johnson is helping to lead the charge a ...
Canadian health care lags in mobile adoption: IDC
By: Nestor E. Arellano (09 May 2013)
The prevalence of mobile technology is being felt in most in many industries but its adoption is lagging in health care where its implementation are l ...
Aruba to release gigabit access points
By: Howard Solomon (5/21/2013 10:29:00 AM)
Get ready for a great leap in office wireless network speeds. Aruba Networks Inc. said Monday it is about to release a new line of access points tha ...
Tablet computers may be hindering education
By: Howard Solomon (5/17/2013 3:27:00 PM)
A little education never hurts, goes an old saying. But in these days of accelerating IT, the question of how that education gets disbursed is being a ...
Pentagon approves devices running Apple iOS6
By: Howard Solomon (5/17/2013 3:04:00 PM)
The U.S. Defense Department will allow employees to use government-issued Apple devices running iOS6, it announced Friday, another possible knock agai ...
NASA lab gets B.C. company’s quantum computer
By: Howard Solomon (5/17/2013 10:52:00 AM)
(A D-Wave processor) For out of this world problems researchers at the U.S. space agency are turning to an out of this world computer from a ...
A Canadian miner moves to a paperless future
By: Brian Jackson (5/16/2013 5:21:00 PM)
ORLANDO -- Every day at a mine site owned by Vancouver’s Goldcorp Inc., a safety supervisor has to tour the worksite and check items off a long ...
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 Can ...
Why stick with Microsoft?
By: Dave Webb (08 May 2013)
Forbes contributor and CRM expert Gene Marks makes the argument that any sizeable business will stick to its Microsoft platform and applications. Ther ...
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 s ...
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 indust ...
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 ...
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