Monday, June 28, 2010
SanDisk's SD card can store data for 100 years The cards can be written on only once, the company said. The card is designed for long-time preservation of crucial data like legal documents, medical files and forensic evidence
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Google dreaming up Chrome OS tablets The Google-Apple rivalry could soon extend itself beyond the smart phone world. Find out what a Chrome OS-based tablet might look like
Friday, September 11, 2009
IBM, European collaborators build Google rival Search in Audio-Visual Content Using Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (SAPIR) may be a mouthful, but developers claim the new multi-media search tool is a much better way to seek out photos and videos online than methods used by Google and Yahoo ...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Canadian health care is almost filmless eHealth adoption may be a slow process, but efforts to digitize radiology departments at hospitals across Canada are nearly complete. Agfa HealthCare replaced film at 51 sites across the RUIS of Université Laval region after being selected as the preferred PACS vendor for the Quebec Government. Find out what the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec thinks about the deployment.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Yahoo tests an online notepad Yahoo's Search Pad, combines features from online notebooks and social bookmarking sites allowing people to save links, type notes, copy and paste Web content and share info via e-mail. With VIDEO 
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Rash decision over cell phone rash Take a hike BlackBerry thumb, a clever PR guy thinks it's time worry about mobile phone dermatitis.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
EMC adds Facebook-like capability to Documentum The company plans to integrate social collaboration tools into the newest version of its enterprise content management suite. But how useful is it to the enterprise?
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
PlanetEye pieces together travel packs All the travel content you need is on the Web -- but how do you pull it together? Underlying Microsoft technology helps give users 'a contextual landscape'
Monday, July 07, 2008
IBM software enhances Web accessibility for the blind IBM Corp. launched a database of descriptive tags to help visually-impaired Internet users get more detailed descriptions of Web pages
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Google says Street View will comply with privacy laws Google Inc.'s Street View application, which has raised privacy concerns because of the street-level images of locations it provides, will respect the local laws of the countries wherever it is available, the company's privacy counsel said yesterday in a company blog.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
In Canada, your picture's worth a thousand words for privacy Walk down the street in the U.S. and your image belongs to anyone and everyone. But walk down the street in Canada and that image is yours and you own it. This is because strict privacy laws in Canada govern all collection, use and disclosure in the course of commercial activity, according to Canadian privacy lawyer David Fraser.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Cheque imaging changes could end paper process An IDC report looks at the transition ahead for Canadian financial institutions as they upgrade the way payments are cleared. How remote data capture might free up some expenses
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
10 cool futuristic technologies on the horizon now Check out these cutting-edge technologies that enable all manner of futuristic applications - and they're viable now (or very soon). They include wearable gadgetry that will form the foundation for a new generation of wash-and-wear computer control and display devices, localization technology that makes eye-gaze a viable alternative to the mouse for everyday pointing and selection tasks, like Web surfing, a free PC environment that can be accessed from any browser, with single online file system, single log-in and file sharing, and more.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
After criticism, Sun fixes Java flaw Just days after a security researcher blasted its Java patching system, Sun Microsystems Inc. has issued a critical update to the consumer version of its Java software.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
URL-based spam on the rise, as image spam declines They were the scourge of the Internet during the Holiday Season, but security experts say image-based spam messages are quickly becoming as unfashionable as last year's Mukluk boots
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The 50 greatest gadgets of the past 50 years A robot that cleans for you, the mouse that defeated gunk and a mechanized Lego are among our top 50 gadgets of all time.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Software can detect bomb in a bottle A company in Virginia has technology that can help airport security screeners tell if a container of liquid is an explosive as it passes through airport X-ray machines.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Hacked bank server hosts phishing sites Criminals appear to have hacked a Chinese bank's server and are using it to host phishing sites to steal personal data from customers of eBay Inc. and a major U.S. bank., according to Internet services company Netcraft Ltd.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
IBM pitches a supercomputing Fastball IBM Corp. said it had developed technology to speed up the way large computer networks access and share information. Under a project code-named "Fastball," IBM's ASC Purple supercomputer has been able to achieve 102G bytes per second of sustained read-and-write performance to a single file -- the equivalent of downloading 25,000 songs in a second over the Internet, according to IBM.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Digital sharing props patient care The Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership (TVHPP) is improving patient care with its newly acquired ability to access and exchange medical images and information, according to both its radiology chief and CIO. Hewlett-Packard Canada Co. (HP) announced Monday that the TVHPP, consisting of eight health care institutions in Southwestern Ontario, has implemented the HP Medical Archiving Solution.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Digital tech transforms radiology training in BC Moving from traditional film to a digital imaging system – dubbed eFilm – has been a massive undertaking for B.C. hospitals. But it has had happy consequences for the Province's radiology departments and British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) students, according to a program head at the school. 
Sunday, July 10, 2005
HP prints out new high-speed inkjet technology Five years of development and US$1.4 billion of investment later, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) unveiled scalable inkjet technology Monday it claims will substantially improve the speed and performance of home and small and midsize office printers. The company also plans to take the technology to the commercial market, HP said. 
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Linux vendors pump out highly critical patch Gentoo Linux has warned of a serious, unpatched security flaw in zlib, a compression library widely used in Linux and Unix applications. The bug could be exploited to crash any application using zlib, and possibly to run malicious code on a system, security experts warned.