Thursday, February 03, 2011
Career advice: How to keep up with the industry Daniel Wakeman, vice-president and CIO, Educational Testing Service, answers questions about keeping up to date, lobbying for a market adjustment of salary, and more
Monday, November 29, 2010
What A CIO Should Know: CIOCAN Peer Forum 2011 Our monthly look at the best blogs, videos and events for Canadian chief information officers includes early details on a major conference and an interview with the IT executive at Starbucks
Friday, March 19, 2010
10 of the best-ever blog posts about enterprise IT We're kicking off our third-annual Blogging Idol competition with a completely subjective collection of great writing and analysis from both the famous and the obscure. Read these and then enter to join their ranks
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Oracle loses XML co-creator Tim Bray to Google The Vancouver IT pro best known for helping develop an open-format for marking up data so that it can be reused by multiple systems joins the search engine giant's Android division. Hear what he has to say about the iPhone "walled garden"
Monday, February 08, 2010
What A CIO Should Know: All CIO blogs at AllTop Our monthly roundup of must-attend industry events, links, educational videos and other resources to help Canadian CIOs succeed. In this edition: A new online service that's aggregating senior IT executive opinions
Thursday, August 06, 2009
What’s the enterprise risk of social network outages? Twitter and Facebook were taken down Thursday by DDoS attacks, inconveniencing users and businesses. One security expert says Twitter may be more dangerous up than down
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Canadian cloud manifesto author surprised by Microsoft protest Contrary to Microsoft's claims of being shut out, Microsoft was among the first companies to review the document, says Reuven Cohen of Enomaly. The Open Cloud Manifesto will be released on Monday 
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Microsoft releases IE8 Microsoft claims Internet Explorer 8 is better at sniffing malware than rival browsers from Firefox, Chrome and Safari 
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Canadian IT execs list their must-read blogs Last year we came out with our "subjective list" of who we consider to be Canada's best tech bloggers. As our Blogging Idol contest gets underway, it's now the turn of our sources - the people we seek out for comments and insights - to tell you who their favourite bloggers are 
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Thirteen ways to boost your online reputation Strategies and tactics to turn the Internet into an ally for your professional persona. Part Two of a three-part series
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
MySQL creator leaves Sun Microsystems Original MySQL developer, Michael 'Monty' Widenius ends a rocky relationship with Sun to start his own company to be named Monty Program Ab
Monday, January 26, 2009
White House suffers e-mail outage An Outlook server crash yesterday, brought down e-mail service in the White House for several hours
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Microsoft tool lets old Windows apps run on Vista Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), recently released for public beta testing, enables older Windows applications run on Vista through virtualization 
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Bogus antivirus peddlers use Microsoft, IRS sites Scammers have used so-called redirector links to Microsoft.com and IRS.gov domains among many others flog fake antivirus software which actually harvests login names and passwords. Find out how this strategy help cyber crooks get high Google search results
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Cisco sued for copyright infringement A non-profit advocacy group claims Linksys violated copyright licences when distributing its products. Cisco claims it’s “substantially in compliance.” 
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Guidance but no policy on New Zealand gov't offshoring Services commission tries to respect the fact that government agencies make their own IT decisions. But it warns departments to "take a risk management approach" they are supposed to be doing already
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Just call it Windows 7 For simplicity's sake, Microsoft decides to stick with Windows 7 moniker for its Vista replacement 
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Stop sending e-mail you'll regret with Gmail Goggles Free Google consumer e-mail feature can help enterprise users avoid sending out ill-conceived e-mail messages
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Is Google Groups a spammers’ safe haven? Canadian anti-spam vendor MailChannels says Google’s popular discussion group service is providing a dangerous outlet for online criminals. What’s Google doing about it and how can you protect yourself?
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Google shares presidential candidate RSS reading lists A new Google Reader RSS tool allows Internet users to follow stories read by presidential candidates and share their RSS subscriptions.
Monday, June 02, 2008
In praise of politeness They say you can't legislate common sense or politeness. As a recent arrest over an insulting e-mail shows, Singapore begs to differ
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
iPhone hacker warns of third-party app problems The Gizmodo blog posts a video clip that shows one of the changes that may come in Apple's next firmware upgrade, including the relocking of its most popular device
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Saudi Arabia officials arrest IT pro blogger Fouad Ahmed al-Farhan, 32, was taken into custody on Dec. 10 after his writing has criticized religious extremism in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported. How 
Monday, November 19, 2007
Monster job site hit by IFRAME hacker attack The Russian Business Network may be behind a malware technique that infects visitors with multiple exploits. Security researchers go over the nature of the threat
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Salesforce.com eyes data-sharing service Salesforce.com Inc. is considering plans for a new service that would allow customers to share sales leads and other data directly with other companies using its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software.