Friday, September 18, 2009
Canada Pension Plan’s Skype purchase threatened A second lawsuit against Skype threatens to scuttle eBay’s plans to sell Skype to a group of investors that includes the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Post-Thanksgiving downer: MS plans 11 patches System admins in Canada, we hope you enjoyed your long weekend because you’re in for a slew of security updates from Redmond today 
Monday, July 02, 2007
How to improve online sales by enhancing Search Mess up internal search and you'll frustrate your employees. But mess up external search and you'll alienate your customers. No wonder that e-commerce company execs are grappling hard with this issue.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Google users map 'places in books' Google Inc. has started integrating its popular mapping service with its controversial books search engine, to let people plot on maps references to places they find in books.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Hot Wire Central An index of all past and present Hot Wires.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
BMW back in, blasts Google BMW denied that it used misleading practices on its German Web site and criticized Google Inc. for removing the German BMW Web site from its index, despite the re-inclusion of the site late Tuesday.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
IBM leads plan to streamline patents In a step toward reforming the U.S. patent system, IBM Corp., Open Source Development Labs Inc. and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are leading an initiative to speed up the patent approval process and improve the quality of patents. The announcement Tuesday follows countless cases of high-profile and long-running patent disputes often involving software innovations.
Monday, February 28, 2005
Aviation firm earns wings with new text search While working on a contract to convert old airplane manuals into modern electronic documents for a client, Spar Aerospace Ltd. had to let its imagination fly with text-search technology. 
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Sites struggle to keep up with demand The average response time for completing a transaction on the e-commerce transaction index is typically 13 seconds to 14 seconds, according to Keynote. 
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Ten ways to boost your search appeal While writing search engine-friendly content is out of the control of the Web development team, there is a lot you can do to optimize your site markup for search engines. Here are 10 tips to help you mark-up your code properly. 
Thursday, April 29, 2004
If they develop it, will it work? Google Inc.'s free e-mail service, Gmail, has received a huge amount of interest in the recent weeks thanks mostly to its claim that it will offer 1GB of storage to each user. 
Thursday, March 04, 2004
High tech worker commitment drops A recent survey by Aon Consulting in Toronto has found that Canadian high technology employees are slightly less committed to their employers than they were last year.
Monday, March 01, 2004
Microsoft rethinks unified pricing strategy Microsoft Corp. is studying ways to offer its software at different price points around the world, signaling a possible departure from its unified global pricing practice.
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Data analytics maps outer space While many observers of the night sky gaze upward to simply enjoy the stars, Sam Roweis, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, is using statistical data analysis to tell him more about what he sees in the cosmos. 
Monday, October 27, 2003
IT security firms to be indexed A national index of Canadian technology companies working in the advanced security sector is being created by several associations banding together for that purpose.
Friday, July 11, 2003
Briefs 
Sunday, March 31, 2002
We’re number …14 Canada’s ranking as an IT power slipped to 14th place in 2001, according to a recent IDC and World Times Information Society Index (ISI) report.
Monday, March 11, 2002
Canada falters in latest IT rankings Canada’s ranking as an IT country slipped to 14th place in 2001, according to an IDC and World Times Information Society Index (ISI) report.
Friday, August 31, 2001
Make your CEO wear one Man’s best friend is perhaps tired of listening to your grumbling. Japanese toy maker Takara Co. Ltd. and cell phone content provider Index Corp
Thursday, July 12, 2001
Content, structure and relevance: the ploy’s the thing Attracting and retaining an audience on the Web requires the skills of a playwright, and the ability to skilfully combine three inseparable components: content, structure and relevance.
Friday, December 22, 2000
Survey: online retail sales continue climb Even as some brick-and-mortar retailers have been lamenting disappointing holiday sales figures in their stores so far this season, online retail-spending rose from $4.4 billion in October to nearly $6.4 billion in November.
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
E-commerce Still Chachinging Along After 1998's E-Christmas shopping season, most observers predicted a slowdown for digital retail sales. But a new study shows that the momentum of consumer e-commerce hasn't skipped a beat. 
Thursday, April 06, 2000
IBM mines data and multimedia Imagine going through a warehouse stacked with rows and rows of videotapes and having to index each one.