Tuesday, December 16, 2008
What NOT to look out for in 2009 Anti-predictions from ABI Research -- Apple and RIM won't own the smart phone space, and spending on RFID won't decline. Find out what won't happen next year
Saturday, November 15, 2008
An Apple search engine? I hope not Does Apple intend to get a piece of the search engine action already saturated by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo? 
Monday, October 06, 2008
Credit crisis fails to boost outsourcing market Is it the end of the golden age of offshore outsourcing and the beginning of a new dawn-the age of truth and rationality?
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Open Text to buy Captaris in OCR battle The content management specialist gains optical character recognition technology by spending US$131-million on a Bellvue, Wash.-based firm. Canadian analysts sum up the impact
Thursday, September 04, 2008
The demise of GroupWise? The beta version includes a dashboard that lets users customize their workspace but an Info-Tech analyst notes there’s nothing earth-shattering. Find out what mashup features it has
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Why China Mobile isn't right for the iPhone A journalist believes the carrier's homegrown wireless standard will keep the hot handset from its shelves. Apple won't make a version of the phone to work only in one country, or one with multiple 3G standards
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Montreal firm launches trademark searching tool Can scouring the trademark filings give your business a competitive edge? David Canton, a Toronto-based trademark lawyer, weighs in.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Icron Technologies releases USB 2.0 module The Burnaby-BC-based company said its ExtremeUSB 2.0 Core 2100 Module will allow enterprises to find USB 2.0 devices from a remote PC.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Integrators, ISVs help spread SOA in Asia A new study shows vendors are getting help in spreading the technology
Friday, February 29, 2008
Branham launches Canadian outsourcing 'who's who' The Directory of Outsourcing Companies and Capabilities in Canada should help raise global awareness of the outsourcing capabilities available in this country. 
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Enterasys eyes acquisitions, targets $1B in revenue The LAN switching vendor also is lining up partnerships with VoIP companies and expanding its security portfolio to include firewalls and VPNs in an effort to tap ancillary markets
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Jatheon pushes into U.S. market The Canadian e-mail archiving company aims Plug n Comply appliance at growing demand from small and medium-sized enterprises south of the border. A former lawyer gives it the once-over
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Blogosphere: SanDisk launches all-out legal attack IT industry pundits comment on the patent infringement lawsuit launched by the hardware maker against 25 competitors manufacturing removable storage devices
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Samsung YP-T9B – more bang for your bluetooth The YP-T9 exemplifies Samsung's strategy of packing a lot of punch into a slim, light-weight device. Besides playing mp3 files, you can use the doodad to listen to FM Radio, view pictures, videos, and text, do voice and FM broadcast recordings, and even play games. 
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Alberta’s ‘Wireless City’ boosts home-grown techs While other cities were rushing to build WiFi "hotspots", Alberta instead focused on promoting the development of WiFi technologies by providing support for the province's wireless technology sector
Monday, May 21, 2007
Management apps get Cs, Ds ?Management software heavyweights BMC, CA, HP and IBM are barely making the grade with their customers, earning C and D averages and driving IT buyers to look elsewhere for their operations management needs, according to a recent Gartner poll.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Raiking in the gold – Microsoft's Jeff Raikes on the benefits of pervasive BI Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, speaks about Redmond's BI offerings aimed at helping companies gain control over today's data explosion
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Patent pressure - Vonage ruling a 'sign of things to come' Recent events at Vonage Holdings Corp. – including the resignation of its CEO Michael Synder – has once more cast the spotlight on the "patent pressures" faced by key players in the telecommunications industry
Monday, January 01, 2007
Redmond vs. Red Hat: Divide and conquer As we begin a new year, it is instructive to ponder the recent pro-Linux announcement by Microsoft. It tells us a lot about how the company’s thinking is evolving with respect to competition. And, more importantly, what that might mean to customers over the next year.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Gates to link Zune to Xbox, PCs Microsoft plans to extend the wireless capability of its new Zune devices to PCs and the company's Xbox 360 game console, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. 
Thursday, October 12, 2006
I bought Ottawa over the Internet I bought the city of Ottawa over the Internet. The brainchild of Montreal’s Rocky Mirza, Weblo.com is a parallel universe where players can buy assets with real money and reap real returns for everything from advertising to celebrity management to property taxes. 
Monday, September 11, 2006
NEC in talks to sell Packard Bell NEC Corp. executives are negotiating the sale of the company's Packard Bell division, reportedly to eMachines founder Lap Shun "John" Hui. The move would leave NEC without a consumer PC brand, while it continues to supply the European professional market with NEC-branded computers.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Search goes on for software’s next top model Modelling tools allow IT managers to better understand how their systems work and to identify potential threats to their well-being. This is the type of tool that we’re hearing a lot about from vendors these days. And IT professionals can fully expect them to become a common tool in their quest to make their systems more efficient and helpful to their employers’ bottom lines. But the time when software modelling will blossom has yet to come.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
SOA gains traction in enterprise market A recent report from Forrester Research showed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has arrived and that companies should consider how SOA could help their business, because if they don’t, their competitors will.
Monday, June 20, 2005
EDS and Towers Perrin: Creating an HRO ecosystem The joint venture between EDS and Towers Perrin is part of the ongoing consolidation of the HRO market as vendors seek to combine HR strategy, best-practice process execution, and technology outsourcing into broad HRO offerings. The EDS/Towers Perrin combination should be considered a leading player in this broad HRO market. The next step for EDS/Towers Perrin and other holistic HRO vendors will be to deliver flexible process and technology platforms, which can minimize provider cost through leverage and scale while also providing tailored solutions to end users.