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Don't tell RIM the 8820 is an at-risk device

Last week we published a story on ITWorldCanada.com about RIM's latest dual-mode device and as usual, RIM was pretty silent about it, other than issuing a press release on the subject. All that changed, however, once our reporter talked to industry analysts...

Posted to Security by Shane Schick on Fri, Jul 27 2007
MS looms over BI

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Posted to Techbuzz by Greg Enright on Fri, Jul 27 2007
Show me the (IT) talent

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Posted to Techbuzz by Dan McLean on Fri, Jul 27 2007
Tory's Tories: The Ontario PC Party's Web sites

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Posted to Government by Arnab on Thu, Jul 26 2007
Tips for talking to top dogs?

I've been able of late to spend a greater portion of my research and reporting efforts on examining the issues facing CIOs, and one of the most prevalent concerns (as it has been whenever I've covered the CIO universe in the past) is that of effective...

Posted to Candid CIO by Greg Enright on Thu, Jul 26 2007
The landmine of P2P file-sharing

By Joaquim P. Menezes - Until recently, major music and recording industry labels have been among the most vocal – and vociferous – critics of file-sharing over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Their revenues – they say – have been irreparably hurt by the...

Posted to Security by Joaquim Menezes on Wed, Jul 25 2007
It takes courage to admit your product is insecure

Kudos to Mozzila's chief security officer, Window Snyder (yes, that's his real name), who wrote on this blog recently that Firefox was at least partly to blame for a vulnerability that affected Microsoft's Internet Explorer as well. I had lambasted both...

Posted to Security by Shane Schick on Wed, Jul 25 2007
Streets - and data centres - of San Fran go dark

A power outage that hit San Francisco last night has also underscored the vulnerability of IT equipment associated with some of the world's largest companies. According to O'Reilly Radar, which is tracking the situation , one of the casualities include...

Posted to Enterprise Insights by Shane Schick on Wed, Jul 25 2007
HP still has a lot of catching up to do

Even after spending more than US$1 billion on Opsware , HP is nowhere near the software provider IBM is. And that's not likely to change soon. What may be more interesting is what kind of software provider HP becomes, and which kind provides more important...

Posted to Enterprise Insights by Shane Schick on Tue, Jul 24 2007
Oh, to be a Big Blue intern . . .

I got a pitch today from IBM, seeing if we were interested in writing about its Extreme Blue program for post-secondary students with great potential. We've written about it before , so I don't think we're going to go back to the well. Besides, our audience...

Posted to Career Corner by Shane Schick on Tue, Jul 24 2007
The pen is not mightier than the encryption software

Everyone in the security sector seems to be worried about endpoint security, including Symantec. I was at one of their events a few months ago where an executive held up a pen drive and warned about the amount of data that could get left behind. This...

Posted to Security by Shane Schick on Tue, Jul 24 2007
Glory days for IT sector in Canada, claims report

By Joaquim P. Menezes - A report published today is upbeat about the IT career market in Canada. The demand for qualified IT professionals has reached a 26 year high in Canada, proclaims CNC Global's quarterly report: " IT Staffing Requirements in the...

Posted to Enterprise Insights by Joaquim Menezes on Tue, Jul 24 2007
Blogged down – Why blogs aren’t yet a business buzzword

By Joaquim P. Menezes - “To blog or not to blog.” That isn’t the question – to die-hard champions of corporate blogging it isn’t. To them, the query would seem superfluous and silly, and the answer self-evident. “Duh,” they would say. “Of course they...

Posted to Enterprise Insights by Joaquim Menezes on Mon, Jul 23 2007
Hacked: One iPhone

Well, that didn't take long. While the rest of us were enjoying the warmer weather on Sunday, a group of researchers in the U.S. were busy trying to prove for once and for all that the iPhone is not a very safe device . Their next step: extortion. According...

Posted to Security by Shane Schick on Mon, Jul 23 2007
Cell phones? Not in my back yard

This past weekend my wife and I went up to her family cottage, and it was everything we hoped it would be: warm sunshine, plenty of swimming, good food on the barbeque and lots and lots of quiet. It made me instantly sympathetic to a group of Canadians...

Posted to Enterprise Insights by Shane Schick on Mon, Jul 23 2007