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Sorry Canada - No Skype For You! Canadian IPhone and Blackberry users left out..

With the video reviews of Skype on the IPhone appearing fast and furious, I just got wind on Engadget that Skype is now available for download on ITunes for free as of today (31st). Unfortunately us Canadians appear to be getting the Telelcomm Shaft....

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 10:03 PM by Pedro Cardoso

Filed under: Canadians

Stop Death By PowerPoint - Make Your Presentations "suck" Less

They say that at any one moment there are approximately 1,000,000 presentations going on, and if you consider that over 50% of them suck , that’s a lot of unhappy, bored people out there. All that hard work you put into that Powerpoint deck...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 9:03 PM by Pedro Cardoso

Filed under: Slides, Suck, Powerpoint

Windows 7 - Microsoft's Future On The Line - Why It May Be Too Late

You can bet that in the halls of Redmond, there is a lot of tension and apprehension in the air. With the release date of Microsoft's new operating system swiftly approaching - sometime between June and October of this year, this is Microsoft's...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 11:03 AM by Pedro Cardoso

Filed under: Developer

IBM IMPACT: Canadians want to skip the theory and get hands-on

Here at IBM Impact 2009, I was afforded the opportunity to ask Manoj Saxena, vice-president of global business services at IBM, what differentiates a Canadian SOA customer from other jurisdictions around the world. Saxena has been working with a number of Canadian companies, one of which being Research In Motion. ...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 3:08 PM by Jeff

Dean Prevost, MTS Allstream - Challenges Facing Today's CIOs, Plus John Pickett's Views

Last Thursday I attended a breakfast event put on by the Toronto Board of Trade , where the keynote speaker was Dean Prevost, President, Enterprise Solutions for MTS Allstream . Dean is definitely one-to-watch in the exec ranks of Canadian telecom, and...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 7:03 AM by Jon Arnold

Filed under: Cios, Dean, Officer, Competing

When Things Go Bump in the Server Room

I read an interesting article today as I was “ Diggin ” through the day, that I thought would be worthy to share here on the IT Blog. It was about the times that all techs fear. When things go boom, basically when the question is asked, “Where did the...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 7:03 AM by Andrew Waugh

Filed under: Crash, Storage, Backups, Chuckle, Stories

The Dickens ya say? more of a disjointed conversation

IT is not exactly what it is, but what you do with IT that can make a difference. Charles Dickens, ya say? NO WAY MAN! Did he use a legacy network to foster social change through IT in tough economic times? You bet your sweet parsnip he did. To quote...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 2:03 AM by Laird John Bowie

Filed under: Legacy network, Public reaction

Technology Incubator ORIC - Kelowna is Launched

The Kelowna site of the Okanagan Research & Innovation Centre (ORIC) opened its doors to the public. An extension of the NRC-CNRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics' Okanagan Reasearch and Innovation Centre at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 12:03 AM by Laird John Bowie

Filed under: Innovation, Okanagan, Local economy

Green IT: Give Your Customers Some Green Incentives

Wasn’t it cool seeing our children last week talking about Earth Hour and doing projects in their schools about how everyone can help create better environment. Both my daughters were waiting whole day and watching the time to turn off the lights at 8...

Published Tue, Mar 31 2009 12:03 AM by Asma Rafi

Filed under: Tree

Why Projects Fail - Kotter Step 2/8 - Forming A Powerful Guiding Coalition

Today was another great day at the office for me - why? Well, on the surface it might seem like an all too typical work day. A busy day, with a peppering of morning meetings - a day where lunch consisted of a 7 minute event just before 1:00PM where the...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 10:03 PM by Pedro Cardoso

Filed under: Guiding coalition, Initiatives

Project GhostNet - Canada (and Google) Saves the World From Cyber-Spying - Again!

Wow, what a story . While most people I know are at either VoiceCon or CTIA this week, this one is worth staying home for. Also, I'm sure all the Skype followers are focused today on the news about working with the iPhone - and that IS a big story...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 4:03 PM by Jon Arnold

Filed under: Cyber-spying, Discovery, China

Lucky Number Windows 7

History: 1995 was a nice year for Windows, when the company launched Windows 95. Then came Windows 98. So far, so good. Then something happened. Microsoft took a mis-step. Windows "Millenium" came out. It was a hybrid between the uber-stable...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 11:03 AM by Chris Lau

Filed under: Vista, Operating system, Delaying

IT Really All Boils Down to Communication...

It often seems that so many of the issues facing businesses boil down to breakdowns in communication at one level or another (often at all kinds of levels). How many of us have worked on a project where somewhere along the line we found ourselves under...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 4:03 AM by Nathan Griffiths

Filed under: Overlap, Resolve

More on "Real" Business Problems - Decision Support

One of the questions I posed before is: What are the NEW business problems that we can solve through IT? One answer was - the problem of excellence in IT - doing a better job of applying IT, doing a better job of managing IT. Today, virtually every business...

Published Sun, Mar 29 2009 10:03 PM by Don Sheppard

Filed under: Gathering, Work flows, Policy integration

Why Projects Fail - Kotter Step 1/8 - Establishing A Sense Of Urgency

Perhaps unlike at any other point in history, today’s fact-paced global society is obsessed with change and the demands on organizations to change are great. Now more than ever, your projects need to be successful and it seems everyone...

Published Sun, Mar 29 2009 6:03 PM by Pedro Cardoso

Filed under: Communicate, Reason, Stakeholders