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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
IT innovation: How to avoid being a one-hit wonder The keys to making innovation a sustainable process include understanding the business inside and out, setting up a team dedicated to trying new ideas, and not being afraid to fail.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
IBM launches cloud academy A global forum will help professionals to pursue cloud computing initiatives, develop skills and share best practices. These efforts will help them to reduce operating costs while improving quality and access to education, according to Big Blue
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Report urges Ottawa to keep ISP traffic throttling in place Net neutrality will lead to the demise of the Internet as a useful tool, warns Canadian consultancy
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Feds should leave Internet service providers alone: Analyst In the latest shot in the ‘Net neutrality fight, a telecommunications consultancy says ISPs should be allowed to manage congestion by throttling traffic if necessary. Otherwise, investments in increasing capacity could be imperiled 
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Sun’s storage head to run new microelectronics unit Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday named David Yen, who currently heads the company's storage division, to run a newly created business to develop microelectronics to sell globallY
Monday, February 12, 2007
Technology transforming credit card industry You can't institutionalize innovation but the credit card industry seems to be coming close. Dramatic tech innovations are "rolling like thunder through [the] industry," to quote a MasterCard executive.
Monday, September 04, 2006
Open-source presents BC University with e-learning advantage Cost and flexibility were key considerations when a BC university chose open-source software to upgrade its electronic learning system.
Thursday, October 03, 2002
R&D spending declines for Canadian telecoms Although a study by Toronto-based Research Infosource Inc. showed that research and development (R&D) spending by the Canadian telecommunications sector decreased in 2001 by 6.5 per cent, the sector itself is not in jeopardy, according to one industry watcher.
Monday, September 30, 2002
Never missing a customer’s call The University of Toronto's Innovations Foundation reports that according to a recent survey hosted by Canada.com, the telephone beat out insulin, the light bulb, standard time and newsprint as the greatest Canadian invention ever.
Thursday, July 12, 2001
Cisco to curb its acquisition appetite Cisco Systems Inc., which had been one of the most acquisitive vendors in the IT industry, now says it plans to scale back and be more discriminatory when purchasing other networking companies due to the depressed economy.
Friday, June 22, 2001
Cisco curbs acquisition strategy Mike Volpi, who as chief strategy officer was responsible for Cisco's 23 acquisitions last year, said the networking giant would be more focused with its purchases. "Instead of making 50 bets, we're honing down into key markets and getting out of some others," he said, adding that the company would announce "a small number" of purchases this year.
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Good Technology Management is Never Enough Organizations that depend on IT need good technology management. That's obvious. What is not as obvious (except to good technology managers) is that good technology management is never enough. Unless you've got executives who understand the strategic challenges and opportunities of this technology and how to leverage it to meet their business objectives, your organization will always take a back seat to those organizations whose management actively accept as their responsibility the task of creating new business value from IT.
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