Monday, July 12, 2010
U of Waterloo, Maplesoft build smart space rovers A partnership between software vendor Maplesoft, University of Waterloo and the Canadian Space Agency will some day result in unmanned space exploration. How they’re simulating the conditions on the test platform
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Final tally: U.S. IT sector lost 250,000 jobs last year The most resilient tech segment last year was software services, which employs 1.9 million people. It had a decline of 1.2 per cent or fewer than 21,000 people when compared to 2008
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Ericsson Canada demos video apps on LTE During a media tour of its lab in Town of Mount Royal, Quebec, the Swedish manufacturer showed base stations, a wireless-connected bicycle and a social networking site for uploading photos. Find out about the tower tubes
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Google cuts 100 positions, closes 3 engineering centres The global economic downturn hits the search engine giant as Google announces plans to lay off 100 recruiters and shut down engineering offices in Norway, Sweden and Texas 
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Blogosphere: The Microhoo we never knew While the software giant considers a different approach with the portal player, IT industry observers from Silicon Alley Insider, Appscout and others dissect the mega-merger that might have been
Monday, May 05, 2008
Aircraft maintenance software includes digital signature MXI’s Maintenix now lets airlines setup their maintenance and repair programs to require signatures from technicians or supervisors before maintenance is performed. Find out about the other features
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Business intelligence should start with business issues It can seem like a no-win situation. Business execs want more reports to glean insight on how to manage the company. So IT invests in new BI point solutions -- even as it spends more and more time cleansing data and producing reports -- only to be asked for changes again, since the reports IT delivers keep missing the mark. 
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Spotlight on Marilyn Steinberg Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Marilyn Steinberg, program manager for space awareness learning at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Senior writer Lisa Williams spoke with Steinberg about her work as an educator, the exciting work the CSA is doing with students, and their innovative Tomatosphere Program.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
IT secures A$56 million in government skills program The federal government has made available A$56 million for IT training over the next four years as part of its $837 million program to ease the skills crisis. 
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Freeware won't kill software, says Microsoft's Ballmer The freeware movement is not the end of software. It has been three or four years where our most significant competition has been free. We have learned customers care about total value, not cost of actual software, but total cost, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Mint cashes in on PLM software tool There’s a lot that has to happen before that mound of change can bulge in your pocket. To manage the complex process of money-making, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) has turned to product lifecycle management (PLM) software from Dassault Systemes. 
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Roese rises to meet new challenge with Nortel Innovation can mean many things to different people. For John Roese, there’s more to it than invention. 
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Anthropologist goes from iguanas to Intel Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist at Intel Corp. whose job it is to travel the world and live among different peoples to figure out what they actually want from technology, instead of what Intel thinks they want. She reports back to the company and stops it from pursuing daft ideas like trying to create the paperless office, which a good anthropologist could have told you 10 years ago is never going to happen. People like paper, Bell said in an interview this week. "It's what anthropologists call a persistent and stubborn artifact." 
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Book trader institutes developer training idea Abebooks Inc., an online book trader in Victoria, B.C., installed Agitar Software Inc.’s developer testing tool to quell a fight starting between Abebooks’ application engineers and the quality assurance (QA) department.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Lost Packets Now you can make like Dr. Doolittle and talk to the animals with your cellphone.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
"Don't worry, be happy" - Oracle tells PeopleSoft customers Oracle Corp. committed itself to fully supporting PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers for the next decade now that the protracted and, at times acrimonious, merger with PeopleSoft has been completed. “There was some concern in the press that we would cancel the entire PeopleSoft product line in 48 hours,” said Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. in Redwood, Calif. “We will support the PeopleSoft product for at least 10 years and will enhance those products…for years to come.” 
Thursday, December 09, 2004
SAP expands offshore to cater to growth markets SAP AG plans to more than double the number of staff at its software development centres in Bangalore, India, and Shanghai by 2006, and is also considering setting up a new development centre in Eastern Europe, according to a company executive. 
Monday, December 06, 2004
Thunderbird 1.0 takes on Outlook Express, Eudora Thunderbird 1.0 is aimed at advanced e-mail users and competes with products such as Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook Express and Qualcomm Inc.'s Eudora.
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Israeli company looks to India to cut engineering costs As the cost of engineers goes up in Israel, Ness Technologies Inc. of Tel Aviv plans to increase its software development staff through acquisitions in India and Eastern Europe, according to an executive. 
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Europeans will help China build open source platform China's project to build an open computing platform got a boost Saturday as two European companies added their weight to a January agreement between China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and France's atomic energy authority, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA). 
Sunday, June 06, 2004
IBM, Intel, Cadence let chip designers go mobile Intel Corp.'s new Dothan Pentium M processors outperform their predecessors by enough of a margin to prompt Intel, IBM Corp., and Cadence Design Systems Inc. to launch a pilot program aimed at unleashing chip designers with lightweight mobile workstations based on the Pentium M, the companies are expected to announce Monday.
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Software optimizes mobile nets For mobile carriers looking for ways to maximize their frequency planning use in wireless networks, ComOpt Inc. may have just the software tool to assist in the process.
Friday, June 13, 2003
Microsoft to introduce security certifications Microsoft Corp. announced this month its first set of certification credentials for IT administrators and engineers who specialize in security in a Windows environment.
Monday, February 10, 2003
Memo reveals doubts at Sun over Java Senior engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. had serious doubts about using Java to build commercial applications for the company's own Solaris operating system, according to a memo leaked onto the Internet last week.
Thursday, January 02, 2003
NetTest gets down and dirty with measurement Amidst downsizing and budget constraints, businesses looking to extend services and applications through fibre optic cables still require quality assurance. While test and measurement can be a cumbersome and expensive task, one company says it will do the dirty work.