Friday, August 06, 2010
Absolute Software hypes ‘self-healing’ tracking agent The Vancouver-based company is integrating the new feature into its asset management software. The technology will automatically reinstall a tracking agent into a laptop if it is removed or tampered with
Friday, July 23, 2010
10 social media tools for enterprises Social media tools that matter. A quick-hit list of aggregators, managers and analytics tools for enterprises -- and one freebie -- in random order
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
IRS, DOJ use social media sites to track deadbeats The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents showing how U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Internal Revenue Service are gathering information from social networking sites for their investigations.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
DNS plays role in Craigslist killer case The CEO of DNSstuff claims Interpol and the FBI have used his company’s tools for criminal investigations by matching IP addresses to devices. How this may have led police to a suspect
Monday, February 23, 2009
Absolute launches BlackBerry tracker The company’s Computrace Mobile agent will allow IT managers to keep tabs on their mobile fleet at a very inexpensive price. But what can it do that BES can't?
Sunday, May 25, 2008
IT Heroes: The T.O. cop who called on Bill Gates In 2001, Paul Gillespie was a Toronto police officer working on tracking child exploitation on the Internet. His project with Microsoft has since created a model for other law enforcement agencies to follow
Monday, May 05, 2008
How can two IT guys update 23 locations? Bonnett’s Energy needs to monitor and manage their tools but the IT staff cannot do it manually and sometimes had to ship CDs out to workers. How they dealt with misbehaving computers off-site.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Psychology lab combines VR, wireless technologies Researchers are using a wireless motion tracking system and a six-sided immersive display cube to help treat mental disorders. The wireless technology was essential to making the experience realistic for subjects. Find out how they keep the illusion of virtual reality
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Opinion: RFID technology in health care - it's not the end of privacy, it's the beginning Health-care providers around the world are undergoing a digital transformation, harnessing information communication technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and applying it in innovative ways to increase operational efficiencies, improve services and save lives.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Fortisphere product to manage virtualization sprawl Most data centre pros are tracking their virtual machines with a spreadsheet, says the comany's CTO
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Motorola enters joint RFID development agreement Intelleflex and Motorola plan to work together on radiofrequency identification technologies and release new products with longer ranges, security and more memory
Thursday, April 12, 2007
RFID security gets tagged Security issues around radio frequency identification (RFID) continue to be the subject of many debates as discussions around the use of the technology for personal identification applications increase
Monday, January 29, 2007
Winnipeg Police Service ready to track crime online The Winnipeg Police Service is set to launch a crime tracking program - dubbed CrimeStat - early next month in hopes of generating accurate and timely information on crime in the city.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Ontario Ministry hot for automating processes The Ontario Ministry of Environment (OME) hopes to alleviate the high demand of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the implementation of tracking and case management applications.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
The 25 worst tech products of all time From AOL and RealPlayer to IE 6 and Microsoft Bob, these products have managed to make our lives more difficult, challenging and just plain annoying.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Google hosts open-source development Google Inc. is offering to host open source software development projects in a move that has been met with mixed reaction from the developer community online. 
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Big Brother on a tiny chip The emerging RFID industry is not producing Orwellian and Kafkaesque chips. At least, not yet. But privacy advocates are already sounding loud and urgent alarms about the potential abuses of RFID technology. 
Thursday, August 18, 2005
From paper trail to patient care Hospitals should take care of patients, not paper. For many hospitals, however, the manual processes involved in managing the inventory of instruments and tracking them through sterilization cycles are prone to error and can lead to cross-infections. 
Thursday, July 07, 2005
technology research analyst, Wrigley The first retail item ever barcoded was a pack of Wrigley gum back in 1974, but the Chicago-based manufacturer is not interested in chewing up a lot of internal resources when it comes to RFID. “We don’t want to be the person to drive this. We want to buy it and use it to make more money,” said Donald Ham, a technology research analyst for the company. 
Sunday, June 26, 2005
RFID reality check The first retail item ever barcoded was a pack of Wrigley gum back in 1974, but the Chicago-based manufacturer is not interested in chewing up a lot of internal resources when it comes to RFID. “We don’t want to be the person to drive this. We want to buy it and use it to make more money,” said Donald Ham, a technology research analyst for the company.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
manager, 311 Operations Centre The City of Calgary launched Canada's first 311 municipal phone service May 18, connecting citizens with non-emergency city services, and handling requests from initial intake through to resolution. Since the launch there has been good news and bad news, according to Terry Pearce, manager of Calgary's 311 Operations Centre.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Website helps those who fret about zombie threat Worried about zombies? Internet users concerned about the number of virus-infected PCs ready to launch an attack over the Web can at least keep track of how afraid they should be, and satisfy their curiosity, by visiting CipherTrust Inc.'s new ZombieMeter resource.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Lyrical over LRIS Convenience, cost savings, consolidation and a compelling user interface. Officials with Oxford County in southwestern Ontario, halfway between Kitchener and London, say they got it all when they migrated to a new Web-based Land Related Information System (LRIS) from their legacy server-based system. 
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Web works wonders for County of Oxford Convenience, cost savings, consolidation, and a compelling user interface – the County of Oxford experienced all this and more when it migrated to a new Web-based Land Related Information System (LRIS) from its legacy server-based system. 
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Tracking disease Health Canada is a step closer to establishing an electronic health record for every Canadian. The federal overseer of public health is adding disease outbreak tracking to i-PHIS, the data collection portion of the larger Canadian Integrated Public Health Surveillance project. “PHIS” stands for Public Health Information System; “i-” designates its shift from the original client server system to a Web-based application.