Looking for tips on IT leadership strategy? Browse through some of the stories you may have missed in 2007 on creating a service catalogue, getting the right metrics and improving your memory...

Now that you're knee-deep in virtualization, what products will help you manage and secure it? These 10 virtualization vendors should be on your radar screen. And, Canada's own Platform Computing is part of that list....

Is it really possible to develop anti-spam solutions for every spam trick? Almost certainly not. But, without the research that is being carried out today, spam might be a whole lot worse. Here is a list of a dozen research projects that focus on new technology and techniques to stop spam of all kinds. This list contains select papers made public at the Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2007). The President of CEAS is Gordon V. Cormack, Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. ...

The pros and cons of outsourcing laptop support, with a link to a Canadian perspective on this issue....

There are mini-applications in many flavours on the social networking site. Some are utilitarian, some build virtual scrapbooks and some are pure entertainment. Find out which ones are right for you...

Don't like the way Windows works? Who does? To help you out, we've put together this guide to tweaking the Microsoft operating system and which covers both XP and Vista....

Innovation doesn't just happen, it comes from careful tending of creative teams. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth....

Check out these cutting-edge technologies that enable all manner of futuristic applications - and they're viable now (or very soon). They include wearable gadgetry that will form the foundation for a new generation of wash-and-wear computer control and display devices, localization technology that makes eye-gaze a viable alternative to the mouse for everyday pointing and selection tasks, like Web surfing, a free PC environment that can be accessed from any browser, with single online file system, single log-in and file sharing, and more....

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IT World Canada's 2007 Labour Market and Salary Survey reveals that 61% of responding companies expect to hire new staff. Overall, the survey results show a demand for 12% growth in IT staffing levels in 2007, in Canada. So, the IT job market is hot, but only if you have the right skills. If you want to be part of the wave, take a look at what eight experts -- including recruiters, curriculum developers, computer science professors and other industry observers -- say are the hottest skills of the near future. ...