Allison Taylor

Software piracy rates jumped slightly in Canada in 2002, as the country continues to lead the United States in theft of commercial software, according to an annual survey on global software piracy.

Aiming to keep the Internet as innovative as possible, researchers from both the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia have joined a global group working to improve the efficiency of the Internet.

The speed and extent of Web services adoption depends on the success of making them interoperable, the president and chairman of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said at a roundtable discussion on Web services in Toronto on Thursday.

Developers stood to benefit as Sun Microsystems Inc. came to the annual JavaOne conference last month in San Francisco armed with new developer tools and resources in an effort to attract more programmers to the Java language.

Several national associations say they're teaming up to build database of IT security vendors.

As identity management continues to make inroads in the IT sector, IBM Corp. unveiled the latest contribution to the industry on Wednesday

Provo, Utah-based Novell Inc. expanded its Nsure identity management solutions on Tuesday with Nsure Audit

In an effort to provide .Net developers with a virtual collaborative community environment, Microsoft Corp. took the sheet off GotDotNet Workspaces 1.0 last week.