Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Wavefront, Rogers announce Vancouver wireless incubator To further push wireless innovation in Canada, Wavefront and Rogers have joined together to create a Wireless Innovation Center and the Wavefront Rogers Wireless Mentorship Program
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Adobe acquires Canadian makers of PhoneGap, Nitobi During the second keynote at Adobe MAX, Adobe announced its acquisition of Canadian mobile developers and originators of the PhoneGap platform, Nitobi
Monday, July 18, 2011
NextBus means never missing the TTC again While the TTC rolled out parts of WebTech Wireless’s Next Vehicle Arrival System for its streetcars and subways over the last two years, NextBus stop prediction just started last week. Here's what it's all about
Monday, February 07, 2011
Vancouver budget becomes open data Vancouver's budget will be made public and easily viewable on their open data site, according to public policy entrepreneur David Eaves
Monday, September 20, 2010
PowerEx exec to lead CIOCAN Vancouver Jories Timmers discusses his unique background, the important role of IT industry groups and how he plans to develop the CIO Assocation of Canada chapter's membership and programs in 2011
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Vancouver to install Cisco power management The City of Vancouver plans to use Cisco Systems Inc.’s Network Building Mediator, along with Pulse Energy Inc.’s management software, to get a better handle on power use in city buildings. Analyst Jon Arnold offers his take
Monday, August 09, 2010
B.C. pilots dynamic transit display Transit riders standing on the corner of Highway 99 and Stevenson Highway no longer have to wonder if they were forgotten by the bus. A pilot project in a Vancouver suburb tracks buses in real time on a WiFi network and streams arrival info to a 46-inch LCD TV at the stop
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Vancouver grads build game with government data Open data can change the gaming industry, says one grad student who co-developed TaxiCity. The Web-based driving game uses Silverlight, Bing Maps and the City of Vancouver's Open Data Catalogue
Monday, March 01, 2010
Charity foundation outsources to protect data Secure systems and reliable servers are critical for donor organizations supplying funding during crises like the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti. The Vancouver Foundation decided outsourcing its entire IT infrastructure was the best route to take in order to protect data and ensure security in B.C.
Monday, February 08, 2010
How the Vancouver Olympics converged its network Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. is running the network for this year’s Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C. The organizing committee’s CIO said the 20 Gigabit per second infrastructure will combine video from thousands of televisions with 80 support applications. Find out which Nortel products will be used
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Online accreditation an Olympian task Registering athletes, media and others online for the 2010 Vanacouver Winter Games will save literally tons of paperwork. Plus, how eight broadcasters will cover the Games without even being there
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Craig to start Vancouver WiMAX service this year The broadband wireless technology finally comes to Canada, with service startring by the end of the year. An industry analyst says it will face stiff competition from incumbent providers
Sunday, May 04, 2008
The Wireless Spectrum Playoffs, Round 5 In our fifth and final chapter on some of the potential wireless players in the AWS spectrum auction that you may not have heard of, we meet a real estate magnate, a calling card firm and a Montreal wireless reseller
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Five roadblocks to faster How do you speed up your IT organization? Here are five things that may be standing in your way.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Ontario HPC network brings arts school president on board The Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario taps Sarah Diamond, who leads the Ontario Colleage of Art & Design, to help develop its long-term strategy
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Vancouver Olympics scores real-time info distribution During the 2010 winter games, Sun Microsystems will compile and distribute scores in real time using UltraSPARC servers on the Solaris 10 operating system. How game organizers will rely heavily on technology 
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Credit union technology provider expands data centre Summit Financial Technologies Canada opens Vancouver data centre with plans for another in Toronto
Thursday, April 27, 2006
HP stacks server line with AMD chips Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) last month unveiled its latest server line which features ramped-up dual-core processors from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). 
Monday, April 11, 2005
Vancouver Olympics goes mobile Technology organizers for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver will use mobile technology for information flow throughout the event. Paris, France-based systems integrator Atos Origin, global IT partner for the Olympic Games, expects to achieve greater access to real-time data through mobile systems. 
Monday, April 04, 2005
Yes, but... Putting the grid in government No news here: The federal government wants to reduce head counts, centralize computing resources,and move service to Canadians to an online model. The results should be better service, streamlined operations and billions of dollars in savings. The question is: Can grid computing contribute to the solution? The answer: Yes, but . . .
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Resort firm books a trip with IP Canadian telecommunications firm Telus on Thursday announced the inking of a deal with Vancouver-based resort operator Intrawest Corp. that will see the deployment of Internet Protocol- (IP) based infrastructures in resorts across Canada. Included in that list are such notable properties as Whistler Blackcomb and Panorama Village in B.C., Tremblant in Quebec and Blue Mountain Resort in Ontario.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Video app no ugly mug Criminals in British Columbia beware! A new mug shot sharing system will be implemented by the end of this year to about 61 police and RCMP detachments within B.C., the first kind of cross-jurisdictional information sharing in Canada. 
Monday, November 22, 2004
Indian outsourcer discusses business in Canada Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to open what it calls a "centre of excellence" in Toronto – the first of its kind in Canada. 
Monday, February 09, 2004
Blast Radius buys Corel's XMetal Blast Radius Inc., an IT services company focusing mainly on large-scale Web applications, on Monday announced its purchase of the XMetal division of Ottawa-based Corel Corp.