Monday, May 02, 2011
Enterprise architects break out of the box Once regarded as IT-focused, enterprise architects are becoming integral to business strategy
Monday, January 24, 2011
Non-profit hopes to cut printing costs with tablets ChildNet says accessing documents through mobile devices could reduce the need to print, a significant expense
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
IMS’ iLane BlackBerry app gets modified for taxis The Waterloo, Ont.-based company has teamed up with a New York-based solution provider to roll out a specialized version of its iLane platform to a “for-hire” car companies. The voice activated tool allows drivers to use their BlackBerry devices and communicate back to dispatch without the risk of breaking “hands-free” laws
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
US gov't criticizes texting/phoning while driving study Laws banning cell phone use, including texting, while driving apparently don't result in actually reducing vehicle crashes, according to a new study that was immediately criticized by the U.S. Department of Transportation as "irresponsible."
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Microsoft frees Linux drivers Microsoft released three of its drivers for Linux under the GLP v2.0 license. Will other closed-source vendors follow suit? 
Monday, May 05, 2008
Manitoba announces enhanced driver's licence and ID cards Manitoba's Attorney General Dave Chomiak has announced proposed legislative amendments which would allow Manitoba to develop a voluntary enhanced driver's licence, as well as an ID card that would meet border travel requirements in the United States.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Toronto cab company dispatches GPS, POS to taxis Co-Op Cabs is turning to global positioning systems and point of sale technology to help drivers improve their "hustle" and book more customers --while turning its dispatchers into an IT help desk of sorts
Monday, April 14, 2008
TEAC ships thermal disc printer The P-55-C can print a CD or DVD with photos in less than two minutes, and has 400 dpi resolution. It has both USB and parallel ports
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Blogosphere: SP1 gets spanked Microsoft riled its customer base with an announcement that the first Service Pack for its Windows Vista operating system may cause problems with certain security products. Three sample reactions
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Compatibility could challenge Windows Server use IDC says the updated version owes more to Windows 2000 than Windows 2003, and will require an extensive evaluation of scenarios and planning. Then there are the application issues
Monday, August 27, 2007
WGA meltdown raises doubts about MS reliability Servers that identify copies of Windows XP and Vista as legitimate or counterfeit shows went down over a 19-hour period this weekend, swamping support the company's forums. Where's the genuine advantage?
Monday, August 20, 2007
Iron Mountain adds Canadian data centre The U.S. firm offers local customers an outsourced option for backup and recovery of PCs and servers. An IDC analyst looks at whether compliance will be a significant business driver
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Software fights slippery train foe in London One of London's most heavily used subway lines cruises a lot faster during autumn using a software program that predicts the impact of an unlikely enemy: falling leaves. 
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Treasury Board urges rethink on government productivity The Government of Canada must more fully embrace the principles and practices of enterprise business in order to transform the federal public service into a slick, efficient organization, says Jim Libbey, executive director of Treasury Board Secretariat. While standardization, cost savings and improving internal corporate services are among the biggest drivers for shared services, much more needs to done to achieve really significant improvements in productivity.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Rise of the Web top – Internet morphing into 'giant programmable computer' The Internet is not just about social networking, it's metamorphosed into a new mode of production, said Don Tapscott, author of 'Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything.'
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Rethinking the ID registry Mass registration projects have an enormous appeal to politicians. In a perceived crisis, anything from gun crime to terrorism, it is quick and easy to pass legislation and create new databases, thus demonstrating decisiveness and concern. The consequences, as with Canada's deeply flawed firearms registry, are often at odds with the intent. 
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Rethinking the ID registry Mass registration projects have an enormous appeal to politicians. In a perceived crisis, anything from gun crime to terrorism, it is quick and easy to pass legislation and create new databases, thus demonstrating decisiveness and concern. The consequences, as with Canada's deeply flawed firearms registry, are often at odds with the intent. Mass identity registration projects are even worse.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Vista playing havoc with gamers Windows Vista's powerful new graphics engine is engendering complaints from a key segment of potential early adopters: hardcore gamers. A small but significant number of games written for Windows XP either crash or creep along slowly on Vista, according to numerous complaints by game enthusiasts in online forums.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Over the moon for NASA outsource initiative There's more to NASA then flying shuttles to outer space. In fact, there's a whole lot going on behind the scenes now that the rocket scientists are simplifying their IT infrastructure management, including the outsourcing of desktop services.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Sun ‘Fires’ up Canadian server market Sun launched its newest series of Sun Fire x64 servers, which the company says provide exceptional performance, reliability and energy efficiency. Earlier this month, Sun announced the availability of the new Sun Fire x64 multi-core servers – X2100, X4100 and X4200 – loaded with AMD Opteron processors running the Solaris 10 operating system. The servers also run on the Linux and Windows operating systems, and are qualified to work with Sun's portfolio of software, storage and network switches. 
Monday, July 04, 2005
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance now business as usual The effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sox) on IT budgets is already receding, as compliance becomes just another cost of doing business, according to recent reports from AMR Research. 
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Corporate Express on a roll with ‘rolling warehouse’ For Corporate Express Canada (CEC) accuracy and speed are of the essence. As a supplier of office and computer products to Canadian companies, CEC’s business depends on its getting the right order to the right customer at the right time. That goal was getting increasingly difficult to achieve with the company’s earlier procedure for loading its delivery trucks. The system of manually checking to see if the right packages were loaded on the right truck was just too tedious and inefficient. So CEC decided to automate the process.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
GNU guru asks Taiwan PC makers to free their drivers Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan fighting on a new front -- to get the island's PC makers to...
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Microsoft more open about Longhorn features As Microsoft Corp. approaches a major milestone in the development of Longhorn, company executives are talking more about the features of the Windows XP successor, which they say will be easier to use, more secure and less costly to manage than earlier versions of Windows.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
TorStar delivery goes wireless The Toronto Star Media Group installed a wireless mobile delivery system to eliminate paper forms that drivers previously used to track newspaper deliveries to stores and street boxes.