Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Microsoft to introduce new antipiracy system Microsoft Corp. will introduce a new system for fighting software piracy with its upcoming Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server operating systems, the company said. 
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Ipanema targets WAN’s ‘weed apps’ Mid-sized and large companies, faced with growing traffic over their WANs, are familiar with the options: compress, accelerate, or build. 
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Are you in line for a security spending cut? Organizations that have reached a high level of IT security practice maturity can safely reduce spending to between 3 and 4 percent of the IT budget by 2008, according to research firm Gartner. 
Thursday, August 31, 2006
CIPA Winners' Circle: Call-centre crunch time Winning a canadian information productivity award is no small task. This month, CIO Canada publishes the first in a series of articles exploring the complex challenges faced by past winners of this prestigious award. First up, we look at how Nordia VP of Information Technology, Pierre Grimard, pulled out the stops and delivered a major communications project with some of the fastest and toughest contract service levels in the business. 
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
ID management offers more than just security Today’s business is a world of mobile work forces, networks and scattered places where information about employees is stored. Wouldn’t it be great to have technology that makes it easier to manage the flow of corporate information, improve the quality of data gathered by a business, and have a tighter rein on what users can do when it comes to computing?
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Asia set to become tech research leader, says Microsoft Asia will be at the centre of, and in many ways will lead, global innovation over the next decade, a top Microsoft executive said.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Oracle touts Fusion tie-ins within PeopleTools upgrade Oracle shipped a new version of the PeopleSoft Enterprise development toolset last month that highlights deployments with Oracle Fusion Middleware and features an SOA bent. PeopleTools 8.48 enables users to develop and maintain PeopleSoft enterprise applications. For the first time, the tools can be used to deploy applications with Oracle’s application server and other Oracle middleware such as Oracle’s BPEL Process Manager and Oracle’s SOA suite.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
IBM's triple SOA thrust IBM Corp. has made its third purchase in the SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology space, buying Webify Solutions Inc., the company announced. The acquisition should be of particular use to IBM as it targets SOA development and deployment in the health-care and insurance industries, the prime focus of Webify's technologies.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Recommended reading Most business books have one big idea that the author draws out for 200 pages. Usually the idea can be explained in a review, and the book itself, coloured with vague examples, is best to skim.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
US-Canadian group suspends certification for open-source app A joint U.S. and Canadian organization that certifies encryption tools for use by federal government agencies has suspended its validation of OpenSSL cryptographic technology for the second time in less than six months. 
Sunday, July 23, 2006
US-Canadian body suspends certification of open source encryption tool The move by a joint U.S. and Canadian “certification” body to suspend its validation of OpenSSL cryptographic technology for the second time in less than six months has drawn sharp criticism from open-source advocates as a capitulation to vendors of proprietary technologies who stand to lose a lucrative market if an open-source alternative is certified.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Tech’s next wave is the dashboard Ever heard of “continuous partial attention”? Maybe not. But you’ve probably engaged in it. And it’s a critical component underlying a techno-cultural seismic shift that’s happening as we speak.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Freescale first to market with MRAM memory chip Freescale Semiconductor Inc. is commercially offering a new type of memory chip, in hopes of spurring the development of applications and devices that can capitalize on the inherent advantages of the technology, the semiconductor company said.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
PCL hammers out a software solution PCL Constructors has built everything from hospitals to airport terminals, but one project the construction company tried to build for years and just couldn’t get right was a document management system that meets the company’s business requirements. 
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Mobile users share tips for best wireless security Network professionals at last month’s Globalcomm 2006 conference said they are exploiting the latest wireless and mobile technologies to get employees closer to customers and increase productivity, but are constantly facing new security challenges in doing so. 
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Taiwan stays with DRAM despite NAND flash trend Taiwanese chip manufacturers are investing heavily in DRAM production capacity, even as manufacturers elsewhere turn their attention to more lucrative NAND flash production.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Sarb-Ox compliance improves communication Increasingly, to keep themselves and their companies out of trouble, members of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) are turning to an IT governance tool, the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology, or Cobit.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Identity management could be just the ticket Today’s business is a world of mobile work forces, networks and scattered places where information about employees is stored. Wouldn’t it be great to have technology that makes it easier to manage the flow of corporate information, improve the quality of data gathered by a business, and have a tighter rein on what users can do when it comes to computing?
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Stephen Harper welcomes MISA to fed fold OTTAWA - Municipal governments are working together for the first time in a formally constituted organization aimed at enabling municipalities from all regions of Canada to improve service delivery to citizens.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Development project was a ‘march to hell’ Earlier in my career, I led a project we came to call the March to Hell. We landed a contract to help a geophysical research equipment company build a new state-of-the-art control system for its underwater transducers — all in a year. All my instincts made me certain that the project would go over budget and over time.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
China loses billion through poor IP protection China claimed that it has lost US$1 billion in disputes over intellectual property (IP) rights since it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Linux to wear virtual hat Red Hat recently laid out its strategy to make it easier for customers to run and manage their workloads in a virtualized Linux environment.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Biometrics carves a path of acceptance It’s always nice to see a technology that, while in its initial stages of development seems to be laden with potential, finally begin to show signs of making it big in the mainstream world of IT. Such is shaping up to be the case with biometric technology.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
After deaths the mining industry digs for IT fix After four mining accidents in January and early February killed 16 people in West Virginia, industry experts are studying whether information technology can help to prevent future fatalities. But there's little agreement about which technologies can do the most good.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
CEOs renew Itanium server vow The heads of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), Intel Corp. and Oracle Corp. sought to reassure users of their investment in the Itanium processor. The end goal of these efforts is to help businesses create automated, remotely managed data centres.