Thursday, January 19, 2012
Carleton’s industry-assisted cloud services lab opens After months of planning, the cloud computing lab at Carleton, sponsored in part by Telus and Huawei, is open to grad students. Find out what six projects have been selected
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Ottawa turns to hosted utility management solution When utilities were tired of circulating and marking up documents for public works approvals, the city went for an answer in the cloud 
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Ontario cities prowl U.S. show for IT investment The person beside you at Interop New York is shopping, but not for a router or a server. Meet Blair Patacairk, who's part of a team encouraging IT execs to branch out 
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cisco, Ontario to invest almost half billion in R&D CEO John Chambers and Trade Minister Sandra Pupatello sign a memorandum of understanding for a five-year deal. The province will add $25 million to Cisco's $455 million investment in Ontario research facilities
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Telus, Huawei and Carleton U open enterprise cloud lab In a move that seems to benefit all parties, Telus and Huawei have pledged money, equipment and their own experts' time to help Carleton University found a new enterprise cloud focused research lab
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
City of Ottawa moves to formalize open data program Although the City of Ottawa has already planted some seeds of an open data initiative last year, the move next week will be to formalize an actual program with process, funding and permanent staff. Robert Giggey, who will spearhead the initiative, shares the plans and ideas
Monday, November 22, 2010
Strength in numbers for 'women in IT' IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS The whole point of “women in IT” is that you can’t get very far on your own. That’s why Jennifer Ng has spent the last year forming partnerships wherever she can
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Canadian government catches up on cloud at GTEC GTEC BLOGOSPHERE: The 17th annual GTEC conference has most of the top government IT leaders gathered together in Ottawa this week. While many topics are being discussed at the show, the early emphasis is on something called “cloud computing”
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
ICT firms slow to advise Ottawa on digital strategy The government has been asking since mid-May for advice on setting a digital economy strategy. With two days to deadline a lot of submissions have yet to appear
Thursday, April 15, 2010
University of Ottawa opens analytics centre with IBM The Telfer School of Management will work with Big Blue on research in advanced forms of business intelligence to help organizations make better use of data
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Waterloo IT companies to hold job fair in Ottawa The goal of the ‘Get a Life in Waterloo Region’ job fair, hosted by Communitech, on April 21 is to draw Ottawa-based IT talent to Waterloo. One employer, PostRank, is hoping to fill two developer positions
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
IT Hero Awards: IVR system helps Ottawa hospital unclog thrombosis backlog Medication errors were cut in half at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute after the hospital rolled out Vocantas' CallAssure automated calling system to alert thrombosis patients about dosage changes
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Dell to close Ottawa customer service centre The company laid off 500 workers and plans to close its facility in Canada's capital city by June or July. A spokesperson addresses the technical support questions
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Canadian electronic firms benefit from Super Hercules purchase Defence contractor Lockheed Martin, which has agreed to supply 17 mid-sized transport planes to the Canadian military, is subcontracting some of the electronic work to companies in Ontario
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Transit systems get their fare share Rickety public transit systems are a prime target for multi-jurisdictional pooling of IT investments to develop gleaming new networks. In Ontario, the One Fare project was launched in June to develop a common contactless payment card system, dubbed Presto.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Primus adds Canadian data centre strategy A managed service provider is expanding its IT infrastructure footprint to meet the needs of the security, storage and Web hosting market
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Canadian companies must 'urgently address' security skills gap Nearly half of all companies here experiencing security breaches over the past five years, according to a recent survey
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Ottawa focuses on IP cameras to secure facilities The City of Ottawa is replacing its aging army of 400 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras with Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled units that will improve data gathering and security system integration
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Effective fire suppression system protects Ottawa data facility In an amazing coincidence, two Iron Mountain Inc. data storage facilities - one in Ottawa, Canada, the other in London, England - were hit by fires this month. The Ottawa one survived, the London facility was wiped out. Here's why...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Cops track perps from coast to coast Police in multiple jurisdictions can now track suspects in other jurisdictions through a shared computer database accessible in police cruisers.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Juiced food bank to launch in Ottawa The valuable service the Ottawa Food Bank provides is fixing to get more accessible, thanks to a new web-enabled communications tool.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Bank fraud trail leads to former outsourcing help The recent incidents of identity fraud that victimized certain account holders at the Bank of Canada might be a wakeup call for organizations to take a “holistic” approach to security, according to an IT security analyst. 
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Visionary fibre guy turns Toronto wireless Telecommunications experts have been watching the developments at Toronto Hydro Telecom Inc. since David Dobbin was named president.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Visionary ‘fibre guy’ turns Toronto wireless Telecommunications experts have been watching the developments at Toronto Hydro Telecom Inc. with avid anticipation ever since David Dobbin was named president of the Toronto Hydro Corp. subsidiary in August. And the announcement of plans to throw a blanket Wi-Fi hotzone over the city came as no surprise. 
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Avaya nets Nimcat Networks for SMB play Avaya Inc.’s acquisition last month of Ottawa-based Nimcat Networks could be welcome news to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) looking for a cost-effective phone system.