Allison Taylor

At its first ever meeting in Toronto, Java

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Bank Financial Group were both hit with unidentified computer glitches last month, causing disruption to customer accounts and online banking systems.

Training, educating and preparing engineers who have had real-world experience in developing innovative research will be the main focus of a new facility being built at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. with help from Xerox Canada Ltd.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have launched a criminal investigation into the financial accounting practices of network gear maker Nortel Networks Corp. just days before the company is set to release some of its restated financial results.

IBM Rational gives developers a glimpse into the next major version of its tools portfolio, code-named Atlantic.

At its first ever meeting in Toronto, members of the governing body of the Java Community Process (JCP) had what it called a series of face-to-face meetings this week to discuss such things as the future of Java and the pace and complexity of development. Also on the agenda: examining ways that open source development in Java can continue without being inhibited by the JCP.

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Bank Financial Group were both hit with unidentified computer glitches, according to news reports Thursday morning, causing disruption to some customer accounts and online banking.

Microsoft Corp. announced on Monday that it would add support for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) Opteron to its next release of SQL Server, due out in 2005, providing customers with simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing.